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Use google to find services on a map closest to where you live.
I think that's @hank's point, @WABAC. A search for services in your area seems contrived. Almost like the first to pop up have paid their way to the top. Finding the local mom amd pop …
Use google to find services on a map closest to where you live. Check the reviews. Check their websites. Move further out if you have to. Get three bids. This has worked pretty well for us for typical services like replacing, and upgrading the elect…
How closely does QLTY track other GMO funds with longer track records?
At the present time, I'm waiting to see QLTY to beat SPHQ over any period of time. Maybe that's not a fair comparison.
I am at 11% or so in the IRA per Fido. My taxable is roughly 16%, but that only tracks the designated foreign funds.
I have been reasonably happy with IHDG and FYLD. GRID is 50% foreign, but it's not the kind of fund most people would want to build…
Can you read a weather map? Or do you need someone standing in front of a green screen to explain it to you?
Your tax-payer dollars at work: https://www.weather.gov/ I read it daily, and the weather in Arizona is really boring.
I don't subscribe t…
I've been watching MSNBC & FOX today. We live in two totally different worlds. There can be no confusion on why the country is divided. It's nothing but us against them. It's on purpose because it makes people money. Tell me what you watch and …
Last week I sold DIVO from the IRA. I was concerned about the level of its DE ratio and the overweight in consumer cyclicals.
After looking at bond funds today, I stuck the proceeds in VRIG. I was unwilling to commit more to existing position in TH…
According to Kelley Blue Book (KBB), the three best-selling "cars" of 2023 were actually trucks:
1) Ford F-Series
2) Chevy Silverado
3) Ram Pickup
https://www.kbb.com/best-cars/top-10-25-best-selling-cars-trucks-suvs/
The December 2023 KBB average …
I don't like lattes or avocado toast.
But I won't begrudge others enjoying these items.
In the long run, it won't make much of a difference financially.
It's far more important to keep fixed costs low and live within your means
(especially regarding…
Yeah. Car batteries are expensive. You got to have them if they go bad.
But why do "average people" buy bottled water by the case? When did that become a necessity?
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/flint-water-crisis-everything-you-need-know
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Yeah. Car batteries are expensive. You got to have them if they go bad.
But why do "average people" buy bottled water by the case? When did that become a necessity?
P.S.: if I do not address a post to a specific poster means I am just talking to myself.
Sure. But when you talk to yourself on the internet, anyone can butt in. :)
@Observant1 +1. Good rebuttal.
Agree, but it won't dent the target.
Ignorance is a lack of education on a topic. It can be fixed with learning. But not everyone has the time, or the inclination, to track individual securities the way Buffet and …
@wabac, May I ask what “D/E ratio” is?
Addendum: I think it’s Debt/Equity
I saw a thread about PE the other day and thought to myself "Physical education? What's up with that?"
Then there was one about EV, and I thought to myself "Exit velocity? E…
Hi @Charles, as long as you are adding months, there are a number of other ratings that could probably use that option: P/E, P/B, P/C, P/S come to mind as data that can be nicely paired with ratings where you are looking for returns, etc., that are …
Sold SCHD out of the taxable today. Realized a tax loss of about $7.50 after several purchases since November 2021. Yippee yai kai yea, get along little doggies.
The money will be reinvested in FDVV. The D/E ratio for SCHD is 3.36 and 1.50 for FDVV…
What do other absolute return funds use for benchmarks?
Since no one answered in 12 hours, I will venture - from memory I think it is 3 mo T-Bills index. Basically, cash.
The fund's own use of benchmark was in JD's post from yesterday. That is w…
@Derf- yes, one plumber sent a video snake through the under the house and we could clearly see the ragged edge of the defective pipe casting. I can't remember exactly, but it might have been in a cast iron fitting in the line rather that the pipe i…
@Old_Joe VERY VERY interesting. I wonder what's going on ? When I buy something at Amazon I sign out. If I'm looking I don't sign in.
What browser are you using? Which search engine for which type of search? How often do you toss your cookies clear…
Unrelated but related. News flash. Paid $7.48 for 24/pk of Dasani water bottles and $7.89 for 4/pk of bounty regular size paper towels yesterday at Ingles.
LOL. You're asking for a haircut buying stuff that way at an old-school grocery chain. I h…
Just bought a 2013 Odyssey with cash. Won't be paying much more for insurance than we've been paying on the 2002. With any luck, it will be our last van.
Wouldn't be buying umbrella insurance if we had spent the last 45 years buying cars on credit…
@BaluBalu, you may not need to pay attention to it at all. :)
I'm taking it for a spin in the IRA because of it's low standard deviation and low beta.
I'm not sure how long it will stay there. The debt/equity ratio is a little high for my taste.…
@WABAC
Dear Gilda and Emily. 'They made a lot folks smile'.
Yes they did.
Radner was a remarkable talent. They don't come along as often as we need them.
Shoot. Now I have something in my eye.
Never heard of umbrella insurance before this thread. Upgraded today. I told the woman we were interested in balloon insurance. She was kind enough to translate.
Thanks for the education. It's always appreciated.
Ironic (?) that one of the more “anti-AI” sectors—utilities—are rallying like AI stocks. It seems that utilities were linked to AI and chips and all their power needs.
Is that what it is? Fourteen percent YTD for FSUTX. Zowie. Must be.
GRID has be…
Don't look now but a utilities fund I follow (UTG) is up 6.5% over the last 3 weeks. Hopefully Giroux is on to something.
They started doing well shortly after Buffet said he wanted no more to do with them. That's the way it seems to me anyway. :)
