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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.
Haha, pick a start date. This one was in the subject line.
I mean, you can start end 1992 also :) , to make Vanguard look especially comparatively paltry. As Groucho did not say, 'That is my timespan. If you don't like it, I have others.'
Yes, f…
Most interesting and also disturbing new analyses, but also a ref to Mankiw work that supports some of the earlier 'deserving' rightwing args here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/business/economy/a-bigger-economic-pie-but-a-smaller-slice-for-hal…
>> year-to-date return was reflected at 6.2%, 1 year return at 4.4%, 3 year return at 4.1%, 5 year return at 7.5% and the 10 year return was shown at 4.8%.
fwiw (not the identical mix, but a good mix), AOR is
5% ytd, 4.3% 1y, 4.15% 3y, 7.4…
Since empire decline and fall are an irregular topic here, this might be of interest:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-decline-and-fall-of-rome/2016/12/02/1c06ee5a-b682-11e6-a677-b608fbb3aaf6_story.html
I suppose it is possible that Gund's secret bond sauce may suffer and the fund may just track CAPE. Not sure.
But while it did slump last Jan, like everything else (still less than SP500), it was flat prior, through the last rate mini-hike, from m…
@kevindow, I agree and (of course) also hope you are right. DSEEX ytd has >doubled SP500, and I do not know whether to stick with it and its successful algorithmic LCV quasi-churn. Am inclined to stick.
This is pretty funny, actually:
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/obamacare-republicans-repeal-replace-232025
Seems one big goal is to get the guy's name off it (which was their doing), so maybe just reverting to 'ACA' would help?
And this wi…
>> Nothing Trump could ever do would make a left-winger like you happy !!!
Haha, you hope it is only leftwingers, not all the chumps and marks who voted for him.
@Anna,
I imagine some here do actively work (volunteer) on social policy, and/or directly helping the poor, and like that.
It is true that such discussion is often rich people's luxury.
I do not think I had many 1960s' friends who said or wished t…
Har --- again, you didn't even read the article (and the link within), did you?
Fortune magazine (gasp), of all places, thought this was worth quoting from Mishel:
'The escalation in CEO pay was not accompanied by a corresponding increase in outp…
Jeez. Actually, no about the 'nonissue' assertion; moreover, no one has argued causation, have they? (That correlation cliche is becoming a new default defense stance.)
Worker wage stagnation problems certainly preceded 2007.
The article linked b…
@JC
>> Lame stream Media is under the heat lamp at the moment. I'll take it easy on ya.
'Instigating', lolz, funny.
>> the rest of us can stick to $$.
as if inequality is not about that.
Did you ever find out the facts about Califor…
Well, track its performance the last year vs DoubleLine Core or Flexible and it has outperformed (somewhat) until 3w ago, has tracked (slight outperform) PONDX till then too, but was itself majorly outperformed by FSICX, which the last month decline…
@Ted,
SV TDVFX looks like a midpack winner (to coin a phrase) with its percentile 'winningness' resulting from its performance since April and especially the last three weeks, as noted above, wow. Lots of vol too; 3* M* and 5-3-1 Lipper.
Widely studied, if you would only read up about what you so like to pontificate on. Costco employees are not and do not need to be assisted by us taxpayers (Snap and the like).
>> that's the real business world.
See, that's the thing. Date…
>> more like a higher average.
Surely you have read even a little bit about the fate of average wages the last decades, also about the Costco model vs the Walmart model. Or maybe a shrug is all you got for policy thought.
Where do you get your quaint notions? Significantly raising the minimum wage, for starters, certainly would help "the worker," whoever that is. See
http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/05/FT_15.05.20_minWage_1938_2014.png
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>> Opportunity does exist in the U S A but you have to put effort in towards it. It doesn't just come to you.
>> Existing gaps are closing. ... Things are getting better every way.
Dear Lord. You privileged two need to hang out wi…
>> ... most of the time, income inequality reflects the significance of the contribution made by the participants.
What a view of the world. No social workers in your family, maybe. Of course if significance means society valuation, then we…
So discouraging to read the quotes from some of these people:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/health/florida-affordable-care-act-obamacare-trump.html
@DH
>> Addressing the cause of that will improve the lifespan and health of the US better than anything you can do with health insurance.
Surely you know that some health insurance (Medicare e.g.) seriously addresses causes, or attempts to …
Here is a more accessible version:
http://mobile.usablenet.com/mt/www.barrons.com/articles/4-managers-who-consistently-beat-the-market-1452318197
I thought Ahlsten was responsible for Dodson's latterday success, but am out of that family.
