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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.
Yeah
How much any of this matters is moot now (dictionary def of moot = 'only arguable') since ACA is in for major wrenchings, it seems. I like this sort of mooting better than reading articles about the details of the alternatives. Klein's Vox sure…
But also auto insurance is mandatory because its absence so directly affects others in a way health insurance does not, right?
Clearly I did not see the points you did in that screed.
Meanwhile,
http://www.vox.com/2016/11/17/13626438/obamacare-r…
I actually laughed out loud, as the abbreviation goes, at this:
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2016/11/repeal-obamacare-roadmap-republicans-000230
and thought perhaps that others might do the same, although who knows, maybe some will find it…
Speaking of value: Next year I have to take SS (may start before April 70th birthday) and after I crunch the cashflow numbers for a while I may look to the side at how PONDX has done in the last tough months and then put even more into DSEEX. Meanin…
In case a macro review / analysis is needed:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/12/donald-trump-is-beginning-to-face-a-rude-awakening-over-obamacare/
This should be good, Palin EPA, Christie DoT, Carson HHS, Newt State, and Rudi DoJ, and many wondering 'My God, what have I done?' (credit Talking Heads)
We survived 68-74, which included political murders, and the 84 reelection of lazy senile fant…
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/hedge-fund-manager-whitney-tilson-is-selling-the-trump-rally.html
Was thinking myself of doing something along these lines, indeed still am.
>> Just kill me, now. [Dimon]
urrgh :( HHS Carson, Interior Palin, DoJ Giuliani, EPA or DoT Christie, State Gingrich, oh, there are going to be lots of opps for suicide.
I misspoke in using the word 'star'; Lipper does a 1-5 rating, no star graphic. If you go to www.lipperleaders.com now, you indeed find results for the two DoubleLine Cape Enhanced, so their ranking start point must be 3y, same as M*. Don't know why…
To review the knot, simply:
... is there a more free-market, more privatized system that could replace the Affordable Care Act without causing the number of uninsured to soar? No. ...
Once again: a useful starting point is the problem of people wi…
This Ptak site is something to read; what a find. Check out also (e.g.) 'When Winners Fail'.
Maybe the swamp of lies that makes up so much of the Web will be successfully drained, for keeps, by the savviest analytical math work of the savviest.
This is wild, totally wild, so many of the usual tropes and allegations about ACA, listed now, without any specifics, yet at the same time strongly advocating for the poor, whom ACA actually helps just enormously.
(And yet again --- this is like a…
@expatsp
Because I am reliably told that it is a solvent and productive and extremely cheap company. I was affirmed in this at 61 cents, and a longer while ago at multiples higher, and today it's 43 cents. So it's for gambling moneys, without questi…
You pay that fee for their advice / guidance / allocative thoughts / reassurance during tough times / withdrawal number-crunching perhaps, etc etc. Not defending, just pointing out to compare apples only. You can do cheaper, sure. But if he is good …
I disagree, fwiw. And not only w/ Edmond's #3 and the likelihood of an adviser "sniffing around for business." You could go to Vanguard and everyone here would cheer yay for you and not impugn --- and you might well get identical advice.
It all de…
Actually, anyone who knows ER docs or nurses know that there are a lot of, if not sniffles, low-urgency usage, and much worse, repeat business, also opiate seekers. Primary / preventive helps this considerably.
Pharma does gouge, sure, but there ar…
Way to redirect / indirect and ignoratio elenchi ! Awesome work.
Many if not most of us die while 'waiting for care.' A deeper and subtler analysis of the facts, for the nonjudgmental (indeed):
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/20…
DH, did you read the four links I posted?
A good overview today:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/28/opinion/obamacare-hits-a-pothole.html
Health reform had two big goals: to cover the uninsured and to rein in the overall growth of health care costs…
some good news, sort of:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvyFz_MXgAA_GzK.jpg:large
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/higher-health-insurance-premiums-dont-mean-the-affordable-care-act-is-a-disaster/2016/10/26/1b7f7ce0-9b84-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5…
