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They were highly reco'd in the early 00s and I was really respecting them. I was in DODFX for a while and got burned by their 'disciplined' strategy of refusing to sell bank stocks despite the tides shifting right in front of them -- just like how…
Seems like a less-sensational version of ZeroHedge. At least it runs more news stories from 'real' mainstream news sources ... but you should definately source-verify some of the relatively unknown authors/articles in their aggregations.
Totally agree that people suck far more than wildlife. That said, I grew up in Ft Lauderdale. I learned to give ManoWars, Jellyfish, and their ilk a wide wide berth on land, on, and under, the sea. Scary critters.
Anyone else baffled by the fa…
Project Syndidate is a great thought-piece site.
As an academic now (my second career) I've penned pieces for The Conversation, which is a similar type of site that is more analytical and explainy-for-the-public vs op-eddy and covers a wide range …
They've had data problems on and off again for the past several years. Is one of the reasons I stopped my longtime premium subscription.
Earlier this year I paid for SA Premium, whose data, analytics, and website are far more reliable and readabl…
Agreed. Back then there weren't too many high-flying companies of interest to young'uns like there are today.
@rforno - maybe the same only different. You probably have a better memory than me but I see to recall that the Stein Roe fund was populat…
That reminds me of the idea behind the now-defunct Stein Roe Young Investors Fund. The fund held a bunch of companies that kids in the 80s were into -- from clothing to toys to fast food. But these days a decent tech/growth fund would probably s…
Because the league gets far more $$ from TV rights and advertising than they do from overpriced charges for in-stadium ticket sales and concessions.
Watching some of the games on Fox broadcast yesterday, I gotta say that the CGI fake crowds look h…
I'd say PRBLX as a blended growth/value fund or TRBCX for pure growth.
I avoid index funds b/c market-cap weightings skew their performance toward just how a handful of big names fluctuate which move the index. But if you want to get cheap passiv…
It opened Monday at 12, I bought in a lowball bid at $11. It's up big to 14.50 in today's aftermarket on news about its plans, plus DOD restarting funding of rare earths projects ... at first I thought it was a pump-and-dump thing by their execs,…
I picked up some FVAC in the premarket recently (as a speculative play) after it merged with the old problematic Molycorp via a SPAC. Seemed to be a good play on the largest domestic rare earths miner.
Hi guys, I've trimmed about 1% from my equity allocation each day thus far this week. I'm now about 14% cash, 45% income and 41% equity. Today will be the final equity trim day for me taking another 1% to the cash area of my portfolio and booking …
This *preferred* stock ETF dropped from 25 to 7 during the March 2020 crash.
SWAN holding? Hardly. And a hard-pass .... but lovely clickbaity headline.
Dying from Covid? Crying for help?
Let them eat beans! The best beans, endorsed totally by Tweety's Family!
Disgusting.
(BTW: At 2 different grocery stores yesterday, I visited the beans aisle, and other brands were sold out and/or moving -- t…
JohnN, I can take that prediction to the bank with truly 100% certainty. :)
Cramer maybe off his meds again
Then again 50% of Wallstreet analyst*s market predictions are right and 50% are wrong
Mid-40s here, and even though I had a mild (suspected) case back in early April, I'm still only going out for groceries, walks/runs, doctors, and the occasional home improvement supply trip. :/
On a side note, another Covid Risk chart, to give you…
While I don't use indicators THAT often in my investing/trading, those I do check now and then are just crossing into fairly high extremes that would *suggest* a pullback of some sort is imminent. But as with all indicators, taken with a grain of…
Fine - send the data to HHS but also copy it to the usual researchers and centers as well. If HHS is the only place it goes, the data is ripe for tampering and/or politicalization by this regime, and cannot be trusted.
Well, as good a place as any…
As an American who HAS often been around the world over the years, is globally astute, and yes, actually has a passport and *could* easily leave the country if he wanted to[1], this sign is both hilarious and depressing, for it shows how far our on…
I found it years ago via a M* forum mention or ten. I became a regular poster here 2 years ago when M* forums went to hell with the software update and (at the time, what seemed to be) heavy-handed moderation. I'd *heard* about it for years but …
Swamp monsters looking out for each other, just as grifters gotta grift.
Cyrus, it's up to you -- and please don't allow yourself to get bribed again to drop the case at the 11th hour like you did when (IIRC) Jared was under indictment some years …
Dear Tweety Amin:
You aren't a business person and have no clue about anything. Stay the f out of my investments and stop trying to mess up people's investment options to save certain industry sectors or special interest buddies.
Btw, how is your …
Yes. To live or die. ;(((((( Sorry, cynical me couldn't resist that one.
2020 has provided a trading market, that's for sure. I've done well in the areas I've actively traded in/out/around various positions ... while letting my long-term stuf…
I obviously wasn't clear. I did write: "on the category of your choice". No rotating categories (though you can change it yourself). It appears that John is using "gas" as his chosen category (that's the default). I use online purchases. …
The whole rotating-discount/cash-back thing is a turnoff to me. Every quarter or month you need to remember which card to use to maximize which benefits ... too much work! I stick w/my Amex Plat and Amazon Prime Visa and keep things simple so I c…
I can't speak to their brokerage/advisory services but I think their funds are well-managed with solid allocations and diversity. Are there some that overlap needlessly? Sure. But on the whole, for an active-management shop, TRP's funds are at the…
"They can't get me if I'm locked in my bunker...so there! [tweettweettweet]"
Maybe he thinks that if he loses the election he can just declare bankruptcy again, and then keep going as president. He probably didn't bother to read the briefing paper …
Not much, Mark. I never really looked too closely into D's NG aspirations with the pipeline.
I hold a *very* large slug of EPD as well and don't really need more pipelines. Frankly I think that's the sort of company Warren would buy given its ra…
EDIT: Much to my surprise, my order to buy back the short puts for a small credit fired just after the open. Now I can reassess things and plan a potential re-entry if I want later on.
I dumped my D shares in the pre-market to lock in my major LT…
I dumped my D shares in the pre-market to lock in my major LTCGs.
I have 5 short put options strike 80 that I'll see what happens when the market opens.
