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@dtconroe- Exactly- same here.
However...if answering this question prior to maybe five years ago the answer would have been entirely different. The financial positioning is entirely different when comparing accumulation years and preservation year…
@BenWP: Tell me! Sometime in the 50s or 60s my parents installed hideous green wall-to-wall shag carpeting in most of the house. I'm sure that they were trying to make me think about moving out.
Sometimes I worry that David Snowball may enhance MFO by cancelling my login. That wouldn't increase any paid subscriptions though, so that's probably the only reason why I'm still allowed in the door.
"One nice takeaway... is the iconic early 70s styles and fashions. Yellow corded telephones / Avocado colored refrigerators / dated hair styles leap out from the screen. A striking trip backward in time."
I know exactly what you mean. We have a com…
5.5% 2 year cd jp Morgan Chase is callable, and Chase will call it in a moment if they can save 10 cents on the situation.
However, on Schwab I bought a JPMorganChase callable at 5.7%, maturity 12/18/2024. On a short hold time like that I'll take m…
Years ago we were with a group of Michigeese and Michiganders in the old bazaar in Instanbul. Some of the men were busy at a shop specializing in "knock-offs" of expensive watches. As I joined them a couple of salesmen immediately surrounded me aski…
I am SO happy that we're entirely out of equities and are just trying to not lose too much to inflation with CDs and Treasuries. This market would drive me nuts. (ie- nuttsier than I already am)
(OK- how's that for "emphasis" ???)
Sounds like our weekend place. Didn't build it as an investment- we've had 25 years of use and pleasure out of it. With current insurance problems it may not be easy to sell that either. If we just break even, adjusted for inflation, that will be fi…
Yes, in some parts of the world including here in California sand dredging has caused major damage to beaches and waterways, destabilizing adjacent land and damaging local fishing. Been going on for some years.
@FD1000- if you don't mind a suggestion, a good alternative to all CAPS is simply to use the "Bold" or "Italic" formatting options. Just select the word that you want to emphasize, and use the "B" or the "I", or even both. Like so:
Valuation It…
From that article:
His study of market history taught him, he said, that long bull markets have four stages: reluctance, consolidation, grudging acceptance and exuberance. This last period is marked by fearless behavior, the entry into the market of…
@MikeM- Right! And I assumed all along that you were assuming the assumption that it doesn't matter which you buy, which you were assuming all along. So now I'm assuming that I was right on that too! :)
"Meanwhile, the West is feeding weapons to Ukraine piecemeal."
Yes, true... and one reason for that is that the situation has revealed how totally unprepared we are to handle a military ground war of any magnitude. We have damned near exhausted our…
"engagement with them gives them legitimacy."
@larryB- If that's true, then does the prosecution by the legal systems of the federal and state governments give Trump and his "associates" legitimacy? If the answer to that question is "yes", then it …
@BenWP- Well, to me it looks as if there is more than one path to the future. I think that it's healthy to let this play out and see which way turns out to be the most efficient. There's even room for Musk in this- he's helped to push the technology…
@MikeM- Yes sir, sad but true is exactly right. The exact same is also true of Trump. But ignoring these "patriots" simply allows their brand of lies, misinformation, and "alternate facts" to fester, gain converts, set us against each other, and poi…
"when you look behind the bullshit numbers that the govt and their media shills put out you would have no idea that inflation could easily get even worse, many layoffs starting to happen, many companies going bankrupt, crime is out of control...."
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He's a "moderate" all right... a moderatel fascist.
fascist:
• a person who is extremely right-wing or authoritarian
• a person who is very intolerant or domineering
He must believe that all of those people recently indicted in Washington and Geor…
A "moderate", says you, a dogmatic right-wing ideologue, as evidenced by your seditious description of the President of the United States as a “Bolshevik”.
Seditious: rabble-rousing, provocative, inflammatory, subversive, troublemaking; rebellious…
You far-right hard-liners love to complain about “the "crazy political rantings that have infested every thread on here”, "mostly the commie liberal snowflake variety". That's a direct quote. ✲
Yet it is manifestly true and factual that the great…
@msf, @yogibearbull- Well then, I guess that I'll continue to jaywalk and hope that Rudy is preoccupied with other matters. The odds are pretty good on that. Thanks to both of you for your thoughts on this.
@msf- Well, now I'm really uncertain of how to proceed. Perhaps I wasn't clear- I do realize that infringement is technically involved: my hope is simply that the original sources will adjudge it as to be relatively harmless and of good intent.
If…
It was the biglyist perfectest phone call ever made, rforno. It was you that I called, but you are such a loser that you didn't even answer. (What's your number again?)
I'm going to contact @David_Snowball and see if he can't "find" a couple of votes for me to be elected MFO clown of the month. That will be a perfect email, too.
@msf- Hello there- yes, I do realize that property rights go beyond making money, and that strictly speaking, I should somehow request permission to republish almost anything from an outside source. As a practical matter though, that isn't really po…
11:23 PDT- This just in from the Washington Post :
U.S. intelligence officials are considering the possibility that the plane believed to be carrying Wagner Group chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin crashed after an explosion aboard, according to a U.S. of…
"the ex-president would be required to serve prison time"
Yes, sounds very good to me also, but you just know that he will delay, appeal, delay, appeal... all the way up to HIS Supreme Court who will likely find that the whole thing is unconstituti…
