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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.
@LB, be sure to study this Venezuala-born writer's WaPo analysis today on knowing who the enemy is and what to do about it:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/12/26/to-beat-president-trump-you-have-to-learn-to-think-like-his…
More seriously, as DVDrehle put it in WaPo:
... the "story is about erasing divisions and distinctions and borders and walls. A Jewish baby is born in Palestine in abject poverty and hailed as a king. An unwed teenager becomes the ideal mother, and…
? the article makes it pretty clear what happened and how it happened --- the bureau suspended the contract. Private donors may step in for completion, says the tagline.
Some large-scale deliberate manure from that SD rep:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-real-story-behind-kristi-noems-death-tax-ordeal_us_5a3c1874e4b06d1621b2fe00
I am bullish for the upcoming year, but have just sold a patch of DSENX (post-runup) in a Roth just to be able to think clearly about cash needs (dau wedding) next fall and possible dip buying prior (CAPE vs NOBL vs QUAL vs DGRO).
Also about $200k
what most of us really care about wrt taxes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/you-own-this-tax-bill-republicans-good-luck/2017/12/21/924bba6e-e692-11e7-ab50-621fe0588340_story.html
Ayup. Check out this accountants' analysis and conclusions:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/opinion/republican-tax-bill-trump-corker.html
Note the chained CPI and expensing consequences, and IBT digging
Sick of 'winners' winning more, and easi…
@MikeM
>> Would have to see if the diversification would still be there.
The AO_ family holds these etfs in four markedly different proportions:
ishares core total usd bond market
ishares core s&p 500 etf
ishares core msci int devel e…
yup, all those condescending libtards in the cities and coasts and academic centers, gonna pay through the nose
depreciating academe and expertise is key!
this is pretty good, planning and flexibility for the near future of this dog
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/opinion/republican-tax-bill-unstable.html
@MM,
If you ever get in totally passive mode, you can always do what a member of my family does, AOA and AOK 50-50 (or whatever other proportion suits you). She draws cashflow from AOK most of the time, obvs, at least recently.
I sometimes wince when people of any persuasion say all GOP reps are crooks and bad actors and should be strung up. However, these are friggin unbelievable:
http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/cornyn-pipeline-amendment-enriches-gop-lawmakers-l…
Consumer Reports wrote, as of four days ago:
The bill also prevents taxpayers from prepaying their state income taxes this year to avoid paying more in 2018. It says nothing about prepaying property taxes.
More here:
https://www.consumerreports.o…
bigleague worsening in the hope of future 'correction' by better souls
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/the-trump-tax-cuts-just-got-even-more-skewed-to-the-rich.html
sure, but this is as baldly self-enriching as it gets
and there is this likely outcome to boot:
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/12/tax-jobs-overseas/547916/
obvs, if the new standard deduction is higher, sure, and not if not
one other point I read, not in NYT I think, but maybe, was that on paper this makes taxation more progressive, which most want, but NOT when it actually goes to marginal cuts for t…
The average prop tax in NJ and NY is around or above $9k as of a couple years ago, not that you can fully understand anything from averages. All of NE, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Florida appear to be not far behind; guess it depends on which part of t…
don't have the numbers of how many people across the country pay >$10k in property plus state taxes, and some would argue that if you do, then by definition you are middle-class or above
will look into it a little and see what I find and report.
SaLT deduction limit kept at $10k, which is a serious fuckjob for many.
>> Within the middle quintile, people earning $54,700 to $93,200 a year, 62.2 percent would see their taxes go up. (vox article)
So much for that.
His last quote actually makes him sound smart, if you believe in disruptive technology and its investment potential. (See new Ric Edelman book.) No one is disputing or even misunderstanding anything you are arguing. But it is not the right argument …
Why are you making semi-straw args in response to a headline? Look at the record. Of course it has been in a bull market the last decade, but still.
Valuations in any strict historical sense have not mattered for some time.
as a diversion, some legal comedy
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/amazingly-unqualified-judicial-nominee-flayed-by-senator.html
but to get back to tax reality:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-tax-bill-may-be-the-worst…
