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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.
@DanDex,
I thought that this, about Howe and Strauss, might interest you instead of Pasha. Big conflict every ~80y, and imminent now, perhaps, though hopefully not.
http://time.com/4575780/stephen-bannon-fourth-turning/
That article is 10y old. I think we probably are close to violent agreement. I do not argue against diversification in principle, and have been reading about the Lazy portfolios forever, longer than my following Israelsen, which has been a long time…
I must have missed something. What sequential? (What was the sequence?) How much developed foreign? Where more than his wee sliver? Quantify and specify the risk reduction you say is taking place with their addition. Or do you just mean some volatil…
Thanks. Kinda weak articles and arguments, seemed to me, except the middle Israelsen one that starts in 01, bad case for US LC.
But sure for the 7Twelve. He is like Merriman and his Lazys.
Not sure how much deeper most need to go than this, thou…
For over a decade it's not really been speculative to consider and point to Saudi Arabia as politically sensitive, or something along those skewed lines. Right after 9/11 I asked a sib who'd left his second stint at the State dept months earlier (wi…
Some etfs etc.:
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/etfs/071416/top-3-infrastructure-etfs-emlp-igf.asp
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Don't know if this qualifies as political BS, but the real doubt is that there will be such a proposal as would actually benefit investment…
Yeah, the confidence fairy, like Reagan. May it be so. Reinvigoration etc. The current and recent past data are all at odds with the description of slowdown and decline, much less carnage.
As for populism, looks like you (again) did not read the ar…
Sigh, Skeet, it is not my chart. You can track down the Atlantic article for yourself. Ah, someone did. And you can dive and wade through all of the wallet data. As can others. For sure it is NOT who receives the most federal aid --- reading compreh…
yeah; PK today:
He’s selected a cabinet of plutocrats, with a labor secretary bitterly opposed to minimum wage hikes. He talks about infrastructure, but the only thing that passes for a plan is a document proposing some tax credits for private inves…
More lolz from you --- who (other than you know who) would lie about something so easily checked?
I really should leave it to you to google and seriously instruct yourself.
But wallethub has the data parsed every which way; wikipedia keeps up; and…
>> keep the free lunch crowd form populating the state.
Haha, you do know that the Palmetto state is like this huge moocher and taker, right?
Some years > $7 federal moneys in for every federal tax dollar paid.
Talk about free-lunch c…
>> highly regarded by both aisles.
Uh. Gotta wonder:
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/jimmy-williams/2014/03/04/south-carolina-gov-nikki-haley-is-clueless-about-her-state
For the longer term I imagine it will have chugged along fine, but I recently read somewhere (something trustable, it seemed) that advised against EM bonds for the shorter terms. I would hold for diversification unless these are moneys you are going…
sorry, my bad; I must've slipped in momentarily (and uniquely) b/w cookie cracks...
So do an incognito-google of this, in quotes:
Mario Gabelli offer investment picks for the new year
Generally this sort of thing works, as others here know; find …
@BenWP, open a different browser and try, also open one you regularly use in stealth mode ('incognito' etc. -- check the Alt-F dropdown choices)
@hank, you know you can block their promotions easily, labeling as spam, or asking to unsubscribe, etc.
No, again, no problems; REIT and foreign do not let you go as far back as might be desirable. Odd.
I ran different Return (and other) variables, sure.
Always get well above 95% no matter what I do.
The Vanguard site is less optimistic, but (and…
@MJG, no, appeared to be the defaults, no EM --- LCV, MCV, REIT, foreign, general bond, cash...
I have played with it many times and for a very long time. Prefer some of the others, I think.
Keep in mind John Waggoner's pointers about the low need for international equity investing:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/01/16/investing-international-funds/21825245/
>> He would much prefer to receive 1% from a much larger account balance ... hence the real reason for his answer.
@bee,
If your cynicism and imputation of bad faith / fee grubbing were the case, it seems to me Edelman probably would not ha…
Sold FOSFX, may move it into DLEUX as available.
Sold DVY in rollover (= shorter horizon) IRA following this latest runup; may put into PDI and PONDX in some combo, perhaps in combo w FRIFX.
SP500 p/e now ~26; can't help thinking retrenchment soon …
