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davidrmoran
I myself see a big pullback coming in the next six months but I don’t know that I have ever been correct over 45 years. I will put a lot of money in if a 10% pullback comes. I expect you r being prudent depending on how old you are. The thing is, if you’re young, you might as well stick it out and not try to time. He said.
the ultra-fancy version of this is not loading right today, but here is some text of interest even when whiny:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:waRF3s9PmhkJ:highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials&num=1&…
@Maurice
>> suggest you scroll up to the top of the page where davidmoran posted. Read the contents of the link, and see if you can find the word "opinion". It seems you and the NY Times disagree.
Huh? The link says opinion, and the standin…
@bartab,
Oh, I would gladly blame "President" Pinocchio for exacerbating as strongly and crudely as possible your feelings of being condescended to. How do you think he got elected? One of his chief legacies will be that he chumped and ginned y'al…
Reduced activity aside, the chief thing about aging is that your burn rate is so much lower and decreasing, so while we should be eating and drinking less, some of us don't find appetites declining much at all.
This Republic of Suffering has econ in it as well as deep digging and analysis into the trauma history, macro and micro, from which we have yet to recover and which we actually inflame with regularity and predictability.
@bartab
>> Moran, your image is wrong. I get one glass of wine a month. Interferes with transplant meds.
Ah, thanks, so your handle is a petit joke. Got it. Maybe consider changing either it or your wheezing bar-ranting tone? Talk about hos…
Some friends working locally (Boston area), including my kids, have had 401ks w Vanguard and hate hate hate their c/s and sometimes the choices, and are much happier and relieved when they switch jobs and Fido is the provider.
I so like the image behind bartab's handle, some fool geezer ranting at the rail.
This is good summary:
PKrug NYTimes:
... since Trump’s announcement, he’s tweeted out one falsehood after another. ... He has, for example, declared that we have lar…
It's the whole shtick about the undeserving poor and how they mooch from all of us deserving taxpayers, blah blah. Would be nice if the hostility went toward the undeserving rich.
not I ---
by history I meant only Trump's own prior idiot kneejerk base-pandering "policies", such as they are
no, I myself am sitting tight w DSEEX plus some other equity funds and spec crap equities at the edges, and PONDX plus some gogo bond e…
yes, there is history
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/03/02/the-real-reason-trump-wants-to-start-a-trade-war
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/us/politics/trump-embraces-a-trade-war-which-could-undermine-growth.html
https:…
(PK NYT today)
... you go out for dinner with a wealthy acquaintance. “I’ll take care of everything,” he says, and orders you a hamburger. Then he orders himself an expensive steak and a bottle of wine, which he doesn’t share. And when the waiter co…
It's a lost cause, at least for some time, to rail against the mistaken Heller decision and insist on reading the nominative absolute that opens 2A in strict-constructionist fashion, as it was intended and written. But for those who are interested:
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@Mark, sorry, rono wrote
>> that assault rifles and high capacity magazines can and should be banned without gutting the 2nd
and I was pointing it out that that was how it used to be, long upheld by courts etc.
sounds to me like you should be in charge
you do know the difference between inside and outside the house, of course, protection vs social endangerment
A seemingly thoughtful response, but your reading comprehension is subpar at best, and your kneejerkness to go troll and go loony rhetorically vitiates any appearance of thoughtfulness.
>> ... 40,000 people are killed in the U S A in automob…
That’s odd...nowhere in the original post does Senator Warren dictate what security could or should be purchased. Maybe I missed it.
You missed nothing, and trolling and insulting a smart and capable and hardworking (and somewhat obnoxious) public s…
...4-5y worth. Taxable, alas.
@davidrmoran, what do you mean by that? My 4 year bucket #1, MM and CDs, would remain tax deferred if that was what you referred to.
My nearterm bucket, bonds and cash, is in rollover IRAs, and a brokerage account …
>> More than 2 buckets just confuses me
Me too. Bucket 1 is cash plus bond funds (PDI, PTY, PONDX, FRIFX) that have been pretty steady but on paper, and eventually probably in reality, are more volatile than bucket 1 typically should be. 4-5…
Thank the Lord these factor articles never mention CAPE and the fund based thereon, which handily outperform all of the above (or appear to; could not find graphs for some).
>> Squeal for someone else to help you when you are in trouble.
That's the spirit. You too, k ?
Are you part of the "faction in our country that sees public action for the public good, no matter how justified, as part of a conspiracy to dest…
but always, always FREEEEEEEEDOM
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/22/opinion/guns-nasty-brutish-trump.html
(PKrugman NYT)
"For whatever reason, there’s a faction in our country that sees public action for the public good, no matter how justified, a…
