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I myself see a big pullback coming in the next six months but I don’t know that I have ever been correct over 45 years. I will put a lot of money in if a 10% pullback comes. I expect you r being prudent depending on how old you are. The thing is, if you’re young, you might as well stick it out and not try to time. He said.
Kids feel more despair now than we did then, also comparative indifference with no draft. My take. It's (generally) kids' parents and grandparents who gather and march, and we know that music today and the kids' concerns are no longer the point. Har…
PKrugman today:
'... hostility to Europe is a central theme of the Trump administration’s recently released National Security Strategy. The main driver of that hostility appears to be MAGA fury at the nations of Europe for being excessively protect…
this ban sure seems nuts to me also
LS has made some ginormous dumbass mistakes, although (e.g.) anyone who thinks his talk querying possible gender-related intellectual differences really needs to read it and the exchanges afterward in all of the…
In 1967 I read Pauline Kael's NewYorker review of the great In the Heat of the Night and noted her comment (not quoting exactly) that one problem w West Coasts liberal filmmakers was this automatic 'Hate the South' penchant. Being an overeducated Ea…
It is just astoundingly complex, back and forth, literally multifarious, reminding me of the Vietnam years, to some degree. The screwing-over of the Natives is more astonishing and disheartening than ever. What a freaking mess.
@sma3. Good info....but.
As usual, you need to know what you are doing.
Original is great in most places.
Advantage choices are great in big cities with many options.
I would never go for HMO.
If I lived in a smaller town and/or not many choices, Or…
Sure, we would all think it goes without saying, and who does not want to turn down the temp ... EXCEPT our country have now killed well over 80 individuals completely extrajudicially. No process of any sort. All because of our illegal notions of gu…
OP article explains AMT taxes. Another tax avoidance tactic is explained in this additional NYT article (see below) focuses on how (Limited Partnerships) help individuals avoid taxes.
Biden and Dr Oz chose this route recently:
Before he became pres…
@msf, I think your musings must be accurate and the very case for these funds. Tyvm!
Only somewhat off-topic:
Fidelity hired me maybe 20y ago to write/rewrite, bundle, simplify and clarify retail bond mfund materials. Reduce their number too. Dra…
Yes, you mentioned short stuff re FXAIX, I believe. I did not infer it was unavailable, not at all. But why do you think A's strategy statement is as it is, compared w FDFIX. Why does A not have the last sentence that D has? Something lawyerly? And …
I have received shorting fees from Fidelity for decades depending on the fund or stock, so I think I understand that process.
D’s zero ER leads to another instance of the question Why does it not then outperform and become another clear winner in a…
Great stuff.
To review:
I asserted FXAIX was (simply) the best of the (plain-vanilla) SP500 indices.
Let us take your 5y as the period of merit. Here is $10k growth w reinvesting:
USPRX - $12,098.17. Loser. Oi. Quite aside from the yuge min.
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the best, FXAIX
The best for you and undeniably one of the best. But simply the best, better than all the rest?
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ETFs offer greater accessibility at possibly lower trading cost (bid/ask spread vs. TF at many non-Fidelity brokerages). Instituti…
@FD1000, you will be well served if you listen to right-wing nut Tucker Carlson interview right wing nut and anti-Semite Nick Fuentes the other day. This is the same Nick Fuentes that right wing nut Donald Trump brought to Mar-a-Lago in 2022 for fin…
fd1k, read this from hcr:
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Today is the twenty-ninth day of the government shutdown, and the House of Representatives is still on break as House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to force the Senate to pass the House measure to fund th…
The House minority whip, Dem Katherine Clark, admits the shutdown was used as leverage. Hear the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzgtcIAdsgE)
So? What could you possibly have thought it was? And you know why and what about, right?
Boy do I …
This is insanely alarming.
It's easy to understand that the infantile Trump responses to Epstein pressures were fantasy expulsion, dumping diarrhea on his opponents, and actual destruction, wantonly tearing down a large part of the People's House.…
yeah, what part of no fucking kings is not clear??
a quarter-millennium ago
(hcr)
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On the morning of October 18, 1775, a small fleet of Royal Navy vessels opened fire on the seaport town that is now known as Portland, Maine. Under the direct…
@Mark,@hank. Side sleeper here,,, bad left shoulder and bad right hip. Nowhere to turn to…plus my cat has something to say about how I sleep as well … seriously this all started since I turned 76.
I see in hindsight that I did not fully believe o…
We have a Super bull which just eats super grains (Crypto) & breath's black smoke (fossil fuel), Just wait and see. Biden's bull were on fake feed (spending/stimulus which I started by the way and Biden copied and took credit for good time), we …
