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davidrmoran
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.
@JC, Good point about relation between politics and investing, and the effects of each on the other. But I certainly would not want certain people here to decide what constitutes 'purely political.'
I would add that LTC companies have been bailing left and right because they miscalculated and lose money. Interesting about Genworth, whom we considered. We have a Metlife policy purchased a decade ago (they've stopped offering LTC) that is suppose…
I don't see that it's broke and needs fixing. People can always skip. I don't see frank trolling or domination. I do often see substantive corrections to misunderstanding assertions, a good thing. And the majority of it is peripherally related to in…
@Ted
>> These types of political discussions belong on social media websites, not a mutual fund forum !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> Regards, Ted
Dude, dude, next time don't originate threads of your very own about the so-called "president's" spee…
'out of labor force' includes all us retirees and kids in high school. Laughable to throw that number out anywhere, much less on TV.
It's easy to avoid these discussions. Let the other forums see if they have the mfund content, data, and wisdom of …
Jobkiller, bwahaha
https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/coal-is-a-state-of-mind :
" Coal employment’s plunge began decades ago, driven mainly by the switch to strip mining and mountaintop removal. ... Even in West Virginia the typical worke…
I may have been mistaken about mortgages and helocs counting. It may be more having IRAs with ML, to reach Preferred Rewards Platinum blah blah; see:
https://www.merrilledge.com/pricing [click Learn how to qualify ...]
What a totally wack thing to write about the biggest job creator in US history.
https://www.thebalance.com/what-has-obama-done-11-major-accomplishments-3306158
DT has begun the con and scam of WWC. Bring back coalmining! (which actually moved west…
The article words are below the video, no watching required.
From the UK, not CNN.
The 'factual' number (hard to believe CNN is so wack here) is factual for totaling everyone not looking for work, like me, my grandkids, their at-home mother, my di…
Too funny
94M out of the labor force!
He almost batted a thousand again:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-speech-fact-check-lies-claims-joint-address-congress-jobs-immigration-pipeline-a7604861.html
It's about funds, and my subject line was as neutral as can be, and entirely true if you read the article. What's crude about it? You would have preferred the actual article hed?
>> don't know what they wanted him to say new.
maybe lie less?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/02/28/fact-checking-president-trumps-address-to-congress
(@DH, please skip)
See what "the common people", or some of them, think about the tax credit, and more:
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/27/14745210/obamacare-enrollees-repeal-plans
The WaPo lede summarizes 2w ago, w my emphases:
The Trump administration is taking its first steps to put its imprint on the Affordable Care Act, reversing plans to withhold tax refunds this year from Americans who flout an insurance requirement in…
such a common charge, pubs favor neatness, discipline, care / respect for possessions and other things too, some OCD about such matters, blah blah
libtards the opposite
yaaaawn
yup
'more like the IRS wanting to maintain plausible deniability'
https://reason.com/blog/2017/02/14/irs-blow-to-obamacare-individual-mandate
so looks effectively like what I wrote, but maybe it will turn out somewhat different.
Do American-car drivers drive foreign-brand vehicles made in their or neighboring states?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automotive_assembly_plants_in_the_United_States
Don't myself have a lot of Republican friends who drive Priuses, like …
A fine summary for another rough week:
... health reform has been a hugely liberating experience for millions. It means that workers don’t have to fear that quitting a job with a large company will mean loss of health coverage, and that entrepreneu…
@Art,
>> I also wonder how much of what the new administration is doing is different than past presidencies
Seriously? It genuinely is different, in every respect, not just in trying to roll back so many decades of progress but in the cynic…
