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davidrmoran
Too cynical for me, and not in accord with my (long) experience in business or finance.
Wondering if you know many fund managers; I do a few.
All my questions are serious, although you may be one who simply enjoys or automatically leans toward impugning; interesting you take an assertion being challenged as being combatted.
Whatever. You wrote what you wrote. I called you on it. That's all.
Not to mention that prices rose everywhere in the world, not just in the USA. A small detail, but it didn't seem like anybody mentioned it during the election campaign.
Dems never even tried to defend what has actually been a good record, consideri…
I may have had ATP for years, not sure and could well be wrong, and my trade frequency certainly has never hit it, but perhaps the criteria were different back when
BB,
The timing just felt helpless, so to speak, meaning things rocketing up for no good or even good reason, really. One might think my orange-menace hatred would modulate.
I will be back buying JQUA and TCAF at some point, I am sure. Combined t…
And yet Fido rules:
https://riabiz.com/a/2024/11/9/fidelity-investments-surges-past-15-trillion-on-its-way-to-16-trillion-after-its-ceo-made-one-big-contrarian-bet-and-two-smaller-plays-that-have-the-giant-hopping
Market is at an alltime superhigh and a good friend (not good enough!) tells me he is coming into a mil (+/-) in Jan if not before, and what should he considering doing with by way of investing.
He has no short-term need (I may advise him to just …
BoA / ML, by no means alone, has gotten very strict about the 'know your customer' thing, corporatewide mandate, due to insane global scamming and fraud.
Rightly or wrongly.
(This from a BoA IT SVP.)
Sold all of my jqua, tcaf, qlty for a good gain, large total for me, and will close out large fmsdx position presently.
Then I will sit and stare at this really unusual amount of cash awaiting significant dip, to repurchase the etfs at least.
I and my wife use our Fido Visa card too for about everything, and can't be bothered to do the labor of using / tracking our sundry BoA cards. (We also use dedicated Amazon- and LLBean-related cards for shopping at those sites.)
But here's a PSA, o…
I listened to a very tiny little bit of it. They were talking about how the 2014 predictions said small cap were going to do better than large cap over the next 10 years LOL. I then closed it.
backtesting is so often comical
Correct about all of the Fido ops and sequences, but the 'they' in the 'do not draw on one's margin account' was referring to ML (perhaps unclear, sorry) --- a new (I believe!) development. No Vanguard-style warning, iirc.
for me at schwab, i can place an order for anything even if i don't have the funds to pay for it immediately. i am told, before placing the order, that i'll need to have the necessary funds in my account within two or three days (can't remember wh…
For a boomer couple consistently earning high salaries over their careers, the SS annual benefit for next year, MC paid for = ~$120k.
A good system after all, and a (partial) triumph for socialist democracy.
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Sure, I got it.
Trump had low inflation + high increase of real wages + the borders were tight + Putin did not attack Ukraine + the Middle East was quiet and 4 Muslim countries sign peace agreement with Israel because Trump killed Sulimani, destr…
>> punishing tariffs would encourage companies to set up factories in the United States
it is just so offensively stupid that he does not know how complex things are, and are made, how much skill and training (and robots) it takes, and how lo…
Fiat, bogus "sadistics" used as the measure by which the amount of the COLA gets decided. Imaginary reality on the part of the gummint. "Lies, damned lies, and statistics."
You don't know what you're talking about, and the evidentiary background for…
@msf Appreciate the detailed explanation. All of the gory details and granular ins-and-outs and contingencies and add-ons and options, etc. only show what a broken non-system we have. Thanks for the corrections, too. Yes, Single-Payer, gummint-oper…
The 'loveliest smile' phrase appears in a poem by WC's brother John H Bryant:
https://www.comfortspringstation.com/2021/09/29/autumn-years-loveliest-smile-printable/
Frost said he wrote it to tease an overthinking indecisive friend ....
And:
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/11/the-most-misread-poem-in-america/
Maybe you are too young for this saying:
Hypocrisy
The idiom “the pot calling the kettle black” is used to point out hypocrisy12. It means that someone is criticizing another person for a fault they have even though the criticizer is also guilty o…
FD said: This is no different than what some posters do on investment sites.
They regurgitate essentially the same information (with minor intermediate changes) ad nauseam.
Wow. If that isn't the pot calling the kettle black, I don't know what is.
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