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...I just did some looking, re: a TRP Brokerage account: "$9.95 per trade for accounts with more than 30 executed trades in the prior 12 months."
...I do not at all ever anticipate doing that much trading. So each transaction is $19.95, instead. N…
Reply to @MikeM: Thanks, MikeM. Yes, I own funds as an individual retail investor with the various several fund houses I'm invested with. I hear "brokerage" account and one word comes to mind: FEES. Even when there are NTF funds involved. I never f…
Ya, well.....That's on hold for a while after my first attempt was an abortion. I couldn't get straight answers from the fellow who turned out to be my first official phone contact. Fido's closest is not VERY far away. I'm surprised I don't see my c…
I'm looking at TRP in particular because I'm already there, and can very easily and simply reallocate. I'm considering taking end-of-year profits from TRAMX and starting a holding in a different TRP fund. At this moment, it may well be the one Ted s…
Thanks, both of you. PRWCX indeed looks like a top-drawer offering, but with a bit too much risk for my liking. I also looked at its current portfolio, and it's about 25% in domestic bonds. I think I'm carrying sufficient domestic bonds via the bal…
There is certainly something to be said for the decision not to "keep up with the Joneses," as we used to say. Spend. Buy. Own. Collect. Bigger. Newer.
...Nope. Doesn't appeal to me, and evidently, not to a great many others, either--- whether it …
Makes sense. I've been doing the "deep risk" dance from the start, without knowing about any labels for it, vs. "shallow risk." I'm certainly spread out, geographically. However, I'm looking to grow my bond-dividend stake, so I simply cannot go 90% …
My own small-cap (MSCFX) fund has over the past couple of months retreated from an all-time high, but not significantly. And my own earnings happen to somehow be much better than the performance numbers for the fund posted at M* over the past 1-year…
Reply to @Ted: "Better living through chemistry." Was it Dow that used that slogan? Yes, new treatments, discoveries are things I can be grateful for, too. Otherwise I might not be here, either. My beef is with the scumbag gigantic and hugely profit…
Reply to @Old_Joe: Howdy, Joe. I'm at a loss. You said: "The various perspectives on this whole subject are fascinating. I had absolutely no intention of provoking either an ethical or a political issue. My question was simply an economic one: If we…
I wonder how much a month's supply of Metformin costs at retail price in The Philippines (Mercury Drugs? Just a guess. I saw them everywhere, over there.) I take that stuff, too.
If I have no responsibility toward anyone else for any reason, then…
Reply to @Old_Joe: I'm on the same page with you, OJ. Health care is one of my ethical filters. I know, I know, I know: to some small degree, surely just about all the mutual funds I own invest in some aspect of the industry. But I cannot bring myse…
* I had to hunt for that particular link. It's on the left, after scrolling down quite a ways. I'm not in DODIX, but it is so solid and respectable and reliable over time, I use it to compare other funds against it.
Thanks, Mindy. Excerpt: "...This musical is sure to offend anyone with out a funny bone and bring nothing but child-like glee to everyone else..." Ya. Reminds me of the bunch of sour old men I went to school with. They had had their sense of …
Whatever you don't like about Catch22, Ted...I for one am tired of your sarcasm. I come here for information and exchange, not to see this stupid running feud. If you don't like what he has to say, why not simply ignore it? Share what you have to sh…
Jobless recovery. Part-timers who want full-time would make the TRUE unemployment rate about 17%. That is to say nothing of those who've given up looking, like myself. The system is rigged for profits to be concentrated at the top, among the richest…
Yes, EM. I'm looking at the Jakarta exchange, in the middle of their trading day over there at the moment (Thursday.) They're up by 4.5% just on the day. Unheard of. Indonesia has been hammered lately, among the worst performers. What a turnaround!…
Reply to @Art: Hi, Art. Well..... Same difference, different jargon? In your reply to Carefree, you must have assumed, but not stated, "no taxes to be paid in a ROTH when funds are withdrawn."
