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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.
the modern world, comedy needing to balanced (which that funny table actually was --- odd you would miss that while making some point about it)
Don't think you know what railing means; it is all that MJG does.
Whatever. This just gets more comical.
>> Forcing savings is a statist/socialist "solution" --- to problems created by the state.
Oh, here we go. And more, the problems were created by the state! Good grief and lolz. I bet obesity is in the same category.
>> the Onion economic systems comparison table. It’s too bad that the chart was not accompanied by some text. Context matters.
I am so going to post more Onion stuff, just to get such sober and clueless response. This has been a major hoot …
I am gonna see if the Onion wants to run as humor such wannabe-serious discussion about their sophisticated wit. We need to post this to the great site literallyunbelievable.org.
>> ... a settled debate. It was settled decades ago in the USA ... in 1825 Indiana.
>> I’m sure many MFOers agree with my opinion; ....
This is wonderful. You are Onion-level funny.
>> “One lesson of recent events is that sometimes doing everything legally permissible to maximize earnings does not create shareholder value.”
Good Lord, what a thing not to know, and then to say.
Not good:
... now we are about to have a Fed president who says:
"How’s this? Growth was artificially fast due to leveraging of econ. Trying to return to that rate thru def spend is futile."
In the words of Charlie Brown, AAUGH!
That word “artifici…
Maybe move some of the two Yackts to PRBLX and DSENX. Also to PONDX and GLRBX, since another year is past and I should be shifting more away from equities.
So he advises 30% equities, maybe a little more, in retirement, and the rest earning 2% except for that 15% in a deferred annuity. So half earning 2%. All righty, then: AOM here we come. Not the strongest article I have read in this area.
healthcare.gov says:
Step 1. Start with your household’s adjusted gross income (AGI) from your most recent federal income tax return.
Step 2. Add the following kinds of income, if you have any, to your AGI:
Tax-exempt foreign income
Tax-exempt So…
Gosh, if needed it in 3y for college, albeit stretchable to 5, I might not even go with GLRBX. I might try to find a 5y CD @2% and get $5500 at the end. Or put in FTBFX or PONDX or equivalent. Now, I am looking at the 5y rolling returns of GLRBX, an…
Anent Walzer's '25k funds' puzzles, a colleague of mine in the industry speculates:
... bet that gross assets includes all of your derivatives positions, including those on both sides of a market, while net assets, in addition to netting out actual…
@little5bee:
So 2008 was the golden age BO messed up (caution, wit ahead):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/11/02/obama-pleads-with-democrats-for-a-sense-of-urgency-in-2016/
@little5bee
\\\ ... Oh, and 5) Be sure to vote out any and all lawmakers who voted for it [ACA] !!
As investors we probably would not want to do that (NYT today):
Last year the economists Alan Blinder and Mark Watson circulated a paper comparin…
I was having a little trouble understanding the exact scope of grandfathering and posted a comment question at Kitces's site (me 68.5, wife 66.5, last spring did apply and delay, the actual SS terms for file and suspend; wife is now getting a monthl…
:
It's hard not to believe that he's paying more as a result of the ACA.
That if ACA had never come into existence, or got repealed by the crazies, his healthcare costs would be lower?
>> And because he lives in a state that has so far ref…
Well, I have not done anything like your level of research, though Ameriprise was cheaper than similar deals out here for the bundled service, like geico, progressive, liberty and such, a few years ago when I checked. Thanks much for chiming in; mos…
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/10/republican_national_committee_chairman_pulls_out_of_nbc_s_february_debate.html
Love the misrepresentation of the actual questions.
fwiw, which may not be much, I have car/home/umbrella through Costco (Ameriprise), and they make sure the carrier is extremely competitive with anyone. So if I were not on Medicare, I would probably go with Costco without much further investigation.…
questions were about the same
weak:
https://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/cnn-host-smacks-down-gop-debate-whining-cnbc-asked-the-same-questions-as-fox-news/
stronger:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/10/29/cnbc-is-getting-hammer…
