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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.
Still holding REXX and COG, as they decline further, wondering what 2016 might hold.
OT, speaking of hindsight types, I was at a dinner party last weekend and the host, retired from Wellington, opined that he had shorted builders in 05 and then gon…
? They said it. I did not report they weren't suspended. They did say it. Is this like a Fox definition of 'fair', as in 'fair and balanced'?
Concur in all the rest of your feelings. Recall getting my NRA card in the 1950s.
>> The elimination of common sense has been their first victory.
+1
See
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/isil-escalation-pentagon-terrorism-216514
Fox commentators said PotUS is a 'total pussy' and does not 'give a shit' about terror…
Understand about Martin etc, and will investigate in detail per your suggestions; thanks. Implies that if you have an LC fund that is similar to SP500 in most respects, it becomes riskier simply from the passage of time. Unless I am missing somethin…
>> most large cap equity funds have risk (volatility) close to s&p 500, which by our definition gets a 4.
Not following. Is SP500 less risky than any funds w a 3 rating? Always? Never? Or to put it the other way, no longterm LC mutual fun…
Wait, what? We should go to war in the ME to win? Seriously? Oh, please tell how! Win what? Exterminate all the brutes? First, why; is it our area of the world? More important, we did that, lost that, endured, that, with thousands of kids killed and…
Which leads to the conclusion that SP500 is actually less risky than any LC fund the last decade or two? Seriously? To get any funds to look at I need to go risk 4? Wow.
Oh, here we go:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-kill-terrorists-ad_566453c0e4b079b2818efc62
'Cowering', hahaha, what a candidate.
>> It always amazes me that those who think of themselves as champions of individual rights don't…
Putting in LC x 3 (meaning all types), 15y for age and tenure, 1% ER or lower, Risk 1,2,3, and everything else No or Any.
Getting no results.
Must be misunderstanding something here.
>> statist do-gooders
Line of the day, straight from talk radio
>> not guns, but Islam
There's a broad brush.
Anyway, it did start out with a subject hed about assault weapons.
>> light the light and hold up the mirror so you can see who you are.
Now *that* is amusing.
It is a continuum and some are stupidly arguing absolutes. Of course there will be knives, duh. No one is handwaving about ending aggression. The po…
>> "right of the people to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED"
Except that's not what it says alone, and you know it. Same old deliberate misreading and misunderstanding; neverending.
MJG Coppock comments are interesting. I also went and reread Stack MW articles from earlier this year: no panning-out yet. The '07 Stack paper is prescient and insightful about housing, but the fall '13 article turns out to have been unwarranted in …
I hate reading articles that say to wait patiently with cash for better ops. Sure, sure. when might that be? Or maybe when you finally decide to dive in again, it will all be more expensive.
Go know that the gratefulness goes the other way too, more intensely perhaps, toward your and your colleagues' labors; some of the rest of us grateful recipients of your generosity just loll about and occasionally say 'You missed a spot.'
heezsafe's truly inspired recommendation makes me start thinking explicitly against your focused criteria and recommend in addition some Hayden White (et alia) history of ideas texts that are wonderful but hard to find (maybe try libraries first): T…
@Mark,
I was responding to a post about 'being allowed to know the truth' or some such guff. I myself did not disrespect the OP and did not take anything off-topic, so you may direct your mil and VP-pal cred more appropriately. I was surprised some…
@Mark, where do you get off telling us how everyone thinks? Let me be the second to speak sense to you.
>> I know of no one that believes what the Warren Commission fed to the nation.
I do. I know a great many people who do. Including a f…
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-a-big-insurer-is-threatening-to-pull-out-of-obamacare-20151119-column.html
Hiltzik is a very smart reporter.
>> Is it likely that the Socialism trend-line being registered in the U.S. a contributing factor to our diminishing world best business climate status?
Oh, without question, without question. It is all Obama.
>> Blame an expanded gov…
