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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.
>> concerted effort by political and economic activists to divide and conquer.
Huh?
Who are the activists, what is the strategy, what are the goals, who is being divided and conquered?
Come on, it's not a matter of controversial / positive / negative but quality of work product, as you first noted, and it was you who brought their work product up at the outset. Now it is clear this work product is crap, for whatever reason. Concei…
Always helps to research a citation, and especially for such a poor work product. See
http://mediamatters.org/research/2005/12/21/former-fellows-at-conservative-think-tanks-issu/134514 :
... the study employed a measure of "bias" so problematic th…
Sigh. It would be nice to be able to find out what the actual truth is:
http://www.factcheck.org/2013/05/congress-and-an-exemption-from-obamacare/
http://theweek.com/articles/453495/last-time-congress-not-exempt-from-obamacare
http://politicalticke…
I would be a lot happier if the political elite had to enroll as well...so tired of a two tier system. Any candidate who had this as part of his/her platform would have my vote...maybe even Bernie!
See below; not that simple.
From
http://obamacare…
@BobC
>> we will both be on Medicare A and B and probably a supplemental policy. All in all, it will cost as much as our small company plan does.
? From my cost experience using a Tufts Healthcare supp (and there is a ton of similar competiti…
@Dex,
>> Again you demonstrate a profound lack of a knowledge base of the subject(s) and a confablulation of the mulaxitiparticipation.
Lolz, this is fabulous, like Izzy on Miami Vice.
@ Jim0445:
>> If you qualify for Medicaid and live in a state that participates, your fellow citizens will pay a portion of your premium, maybe. The whole thing is revolting.
I know! Like property taxes for schoolteachers and firefighters an…
>> That’s a sad history if the paper’s claim is fair neutrality.
How do you figure? Not sure that's their claim, but you sound as confused about fair neutrality as about randomness and statistics. Would fair be 50-50 for the parties? Or what?…
Lolz, only in his own mind is Dex a journalist, not in any authentic sense of the word.
>> As a journalist myself, I can tell you that Salon is passé and swill.
@Dex, Priceless. I understand you want to discuss these economic issues and part…
Lolz. Then be sure to skip this!
Actually, Paul Rosenberg the analyst is an Al Jazeera English columnist, so you can dismiss this doubly, I bet. Your loss.
Why post 14-month-old articles?
Eventide Gilead looks okay and its description is not all that different from PRBLX if you take out the God stuff:
... God’s great intent for business is that it serve and, in turn, bless humankind . . . and that co…
This is what happens if you initially fail to check the reinvest box. Last December 5 I bought $9000 worth of PDI. Like a dope I did not reinvest for three months, until April. Have been auto-reinvesting since then, per usual. Current total cost is …
This actually has been for some time a well-recognized and widely studied matter, the nuances explored:
http://www.economist.com/node/17079148
https://www.bostonfed.org/education/ledger/ledger03/winter/measure.pdf
oh, I know the args, just wondering what would make me wonder generally. If he did something horrible? If he became meth-addicted? If he beat his cat? It is one thing to have wack beliefs, another to bruit them. So what should make one reconsider? A…
Charles,
If you take GO largeish equity funds and etfs and sort by UI, you see it is almost identical to sorting by month of bad drop (2015, then 2011, finally 2009) and also (of course) by longevity.
In my little test list, USMV is at the top and…
@davfor
>> there's a lot that can be done to make the income distribution in this country more equitable.
I was attempting to be droll about American exceptionalism and the like.
@davfor
Yeah, I checked it cursorily against the Pew data, perhaps the best of the lot, which is why I deleted my comment of skepticism of anything involving the Mises Institute.
Not sure what the points are really, yay USA, exceptional us, go go …
Well, if you really do not understand how it will do so (income increase, spending, savings), then there is no further discussion to be had, which I guess is a form of no answer, and you can continue to find that UCG's Eric Snow offers something wis…
@Dex
>> what would you do to change the trend of the shrinking middle class?
Well, there are any number of policy changes that smart analysts and political thinkers, including some academics you relentlessly scorn, have advocated, in great d…
>> Do you even read the posts?
Of course. Help us all out: again, what do you propose? Severe protectionism? Can you point me to what I missed? Or is it hopeless and we all simply must share your handwringing? That's weak.
Technology is the driver, yes. Smith was sophisticated about it in some regards:
http://oll.libertyfund.org/quote/316
See last para for subtle explication.
But have we long entered a state where tech development does not directly benefit the inve…
Some of this has improved the last dozen-plus years I have been following the area (editing a sib --- https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2003-01-01/beyond-sweatshops-foreign-direct-investment-and-globalization).
Not enough, but n…
You infer waaaaay too much and almost all of it wrongly, at least in this post, not in some of your others. Odd for someone who says he has worked in the news. As a member (long ago) of the AFL-CIO who worked on a truck factory line (Harvester), als…
