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LewisBraham
Hi Hank,
Your satire came across very well. Don't worry about the user name.
Best,
Lewis
@Art Do you see the author's name at the top of that story? I don't know what you do or did for a living, but suppose someone took the products of your labor and didn't pay you or your employer for them. How would you feel? I suggest you back off. …
@Ted Hey, snowflake, I understand you think you're entitled to freebies/handouts from Big Internet, but get a job and pay for your own subscription. Stop stealing other people's newspapers from their front lawn.
Good links everyone. This one provides a number of different avenues to help:
https://mashable.com/2018/06/18/child-separation-immigration-charities-donate/#JZOvRHM1oqqa
@hank Thank you for posting your comments, although you shouldn't have had to. The same poster you addressed--JohnN--I would observe is now happily posting remarks in the Harvard/Racism lawsuit thread without any comments regarding how that thread i…
@JohnN I’ll believe you when you post the same remark under the threads on “racism” at Harvard, sugar being the real problem with American healthcare not a lack of adequate health insurance, the “dumbing down” of American education, cebrations of ou…
People tend to know what they're immediately exposed to and seems relevant to their lives. Since so few Americans actually have a decent amount of savings, I wonder how relevant investing is to them. Similarly, as the above video shows, wealthy peo…
@Ted Where are your comments in the same vein about the numerous posts below this one, including some of your own, that have nothing to do with funds but agree with your right-of -Attila-the-Hun politics?
@BrianW
And, Medicare is also as poorly managed
Oh, utter bs:
https://commonwealthfund.org/publications/journal-article/2002/oct/medicare-vs-private-insurance-rhetoric-and-reality
politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/sep/20/bernie-s/com…
@OOBY Never said centralized health insurance is some "utopian system." Yet every developed nation that has centralized medicine spends less per capita on health insurance and has a longer average life expectancy than the U.S. These numbers have bee…
It is now hilarious insanity that Maurice is equating a "carbon tax" on the pollution ruining our air quality and killing the planet with taxing "the air we breathe." All I can say is I wish the air I breathe had a whole lot less of the pollutants t…
@BrianW Seniors today who paid into Medicare during their working years receive way in excess in costly medical benefits than they paid in. In other words, Medicare has been a fabulous deal for them economically, obvious to anyone who has studied th…
Is it not the greatest irony that the Republican party has become the one of fiscal irresponsibility because perhaps liberals say Tax and Spend, but lately the Republican mantra has been Don't Tax but Still Spend? I would wager that Ted receives Med…
@Maurice Fact is Maurice if you’re obese like Michael Moore and over the age of 65 the government is already paying for your and millions of other obese Americans healthcare vis Medicare. I’m not saying sugar should be banned but taxed appropriately…
“Government isn't the answer to our problems, government is the problems.”
One could apply such absurd reductive logic from a left wing perspective too:
“Private corporations aren’t the answer to our problems. Private corporations are the problem.” …
I take care of myself, thanks. Still not the point. The concept of insurance is to create a risk pool. The risk pool is financed collectively to protect individuals from unforeseen events including and especially health related ones. The healthy fi…
The answer like in an improv class is “Yes and...” Yes sugar is a terrible addictive substance which should be taxed heavily AND we should have public government funded healthcare to address America’s numerous healthcare problems. It is not necessar…
Here’s the full story which is much better than the reformed broker one:
https://bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-13/gundlach-sees-6-yield-in-3-years-anyone-else
I and almost every analyst think Gundlach’s wrong, but if he’s right there’d be no …
I wonder what number he's up to now:
https://washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/05/01/president-trump-has-made-3001-false-or-misleading-claims-so-far/?utm_term=.a71aa25d6b14
It's interesting now that Hillary Clinton is largely out of the picture, Fox news viewers/Dimfart readers have moved on to Obama as their bogeyman of choice. What new criminal Obama conspiracy will Putin's Politburo hate-bots cook up for Hannity, A…
Here's the thing about active management--and life itself--it depends. The idea that there is some binary answer--teams good/bad or single manager good/bad--is absurd. But on the internet people have a fondness for binary thinking. It's the reason t…
Actually, I'm looking at recent years for these funds and it seems like recently most of the dividend has come from distributed capital gains, not return of capital. Still, at the end of day all that matters is the total return regardless whether th…
Neglects to mention that some if not most of this dividend income may be from return of capital, so while your income is payed out, the value of the underlying investment decreases by the amount of capital required to pay you the dividend. There is …
@MFO From June 6th through June 13th members had an enlightening discussion and spirited debate about the meaning of war and heroism. Then on June 13th Ted decided to use this as an opportunity to post snide comments and troll the thread. What a sha…
@MJG True, it would require rewiring. Sometimes nations and individuals do bad things. Sometimes other nations and individuals have to stop them. But what happens when it's our nation, historians agree, that's done the bad thing? Should the soldiers…
@MJG Uncle Mike sounds like a good guy. Do you mean to extrapolate from this singular anecdote some generic truth for all soldiers worldwide, including those of America's historic enemies? And even if Mike was modest about his service, does that say…
@MJG
I disagree that " Amercans tend to glorify their deeds".
Your first words when you started this thread were:
The risks and uncertainties were beyond measure. Honor and glory to those who participated.
The noun "glory" is a cognate of "glorify.…
@Art I know you've commented in the past that you feel comments should be solely devoted to making money via mutual funds. Is making money a completely apolitical activity wholly divorced from the real world? If there are political consequences to m…
@bartab Lol at the pervasive sadism in the Republican party whose primary pleasure now is from trying to make liberals unhappy. Is there any real joy in their lives?
