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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.
@varmint
ACA satisfaction from a few months ago:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2015/06/13/as-scotus-decision-looms-obamacare-satisfaction-reaches-86-percent/
@OJ, thanks; it is plenty lolz that he does not know what 'more seriously' means, but more important, note that he's still batting 1000 for typos.
@msf, do you ever not talk sense?
>> tell me, why should a couple in their early sixties with grown kids be required to pay for maternity care?
I know! Same as property taxes for schools!
More seriously, it's not really clear this guy knows what insurance is and how it wor…
No, but sorry, if I had known that (sorry for not doublechecking), I would not have mentioned it. It is to my mind and has always styled itself as LV or LB, among the very best. And appeal of SPHD understood, except if div income not needed, and it …
Was thinking Prime guys sort-of value? My ignorance here. If wrong, then add PRBLX or YACKX. But goes against goal not to increase number of funds, if that remains important goal.
Agree about low-vol etf, depending on your age and temperament.
Would consider ditching SPHD again depending on your need for divs and your taxes.
I could live with Danoff and Primecap guys forever. Two cents.
>> decent returns without a high level of risk?
No, not really. It depends on what you mean. Your solid current named funds will achieve neither, most likely, depending on timeframe. In other words they will have moderately serious risk as in…
Nah, Trump just exposing long-developed and -encouraged core beliefs in too plain a way, that's all.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/12/donald_trump_is_expressing_the_bigotry_of_the_republican_party_s_base.html
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Edmond, jeez, dude, at least man up to what you wrote and meant. What an evader, trying to turn it back onto the respondent somehow. lolz. I do hope you and the reliable Dex get to be in charge. Talk about no adults. Exterminate all the brutes, no l…
>> she should be most worried about preventing the next Islamic terrorist attack in the Homeland.
As if she is not, traitorous bastard that she is, and as they all are, right?
>> And unfortunately, there will be a next one, and anoth…
Thanks much; same as my (previous) understanding; was just curious how to analyze their own listing anew, since I too was getting ~80% debt.
Regardless, so far, so good: chiefly either outperformance or mirroring, seldom underperformance.
Little t…
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.
