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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.
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That if ACA had never come into existence, or got repealed by the crazies, his healthcare costs would be lower?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…
>> 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
