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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.
See
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/07/opinion/you-deserve-a-raise-today-interest-rates-dont.html
There are much more important things to address meaningfully in this economy than interest rates, except for the opinion bankers and their business spr…
haha, right, not interesting or complex in the least, just dirtbag comedy:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/09/21/ceo-of-company-that-raised-the-price-of-old-pill-hundreds-of-dollars-overnight-calls-journalist-a-moron-for-…
Single payer would be awesome, but unlikely in this country for now.
The daraprim $1-to-$750 story may be a little bit more interesting and complex than the headlines. Or not:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/09/20/huge-overnight-increase…
>> Will a politician surprise the nation and successfully make difficult decisions and actually bring down healthcare costs,
How would that work, do you think? My sense is pretty limited political powers and capabilities. (Other than welcome …
Nice hed. This is chiefly cuz it's her, not cuz there is news here.
From Politico a month ago:
… there is growing evidence that even GOP voters are more concerned about curbing drug prices than dislodging [ACA]. In April, the nonpartisan Kaiser F…
>> low interest, low to no wage growth with prices in housing and health care increasing.
Already is!
>> Then investors and workers will get increased taxes
Not sure that will happen
>> and a VAT at some time.
As you keep h…
esp if Fla goes underwater in the next couple decades ....
No, never lived there, many friends though, and have a timeshare on Sanibel. Live in the v expensive Boston suburbs.
Maybe those mile after mile of newish but abandoned and grassed-in fore…
Wow, there is a building boom in Fla again?? (Pardon ignorance.) Last time I drove through Ft Myers, seems only a few years ago, it was nonstop abandonment of new-looking stuff.
The usual advice, may not apply to you, is if you need a place to live…
Subsequent dca has a charge too?? Wow, $5 per hit. Even if it is 6 shares? I thought we were all told always to mind fees. Why pay extra unless the performance is significantly superior? And does Vanguard have anything that is *significantly* superi…
Whoa, tyvm! This is really rich, and I had no idea.
No wonder nobody takes IBD pol reportage seriously. I did laugh out loud. Maybe it was at this:
\\\ Obama's oppressive mix of higher taxes and massive new regulations choked off what should have …
True dat.
Always glad to be unhelpful; in investing it's often second nature !
I did not mention, and you can find this out for yourself and see how it comports, that Pinto et alia get notably lower risk ratings than Fido and maybe even Vanguard.…
Right, sorry. No need to switch Vang for something else unless you have losses, sure. No harm in being led by Pinto (Janus) and by the Fido guys, both groups, both real good. But since you wish to consolidate, I would flip a coin; you will not go wr…
Ever the fake innocent, jeez, ever turning it away from oneself. Oh, did I piss on your leg? Well, why was your leg there? 'My forecast of your reaction was spot on target.' Chicken is not ex-mil behavior.
Gently speaking LB,
Evidence? 'Front line'?? Bush totally ducked to flee to AN Guard and then got booted out of it for noncompliance, while Cheney was yellow by any standard of the time:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/01/politics/campaign/01CHEN.h…
>> sure this disclosure will solicit some angry outbursts, likely one from davidrmoran.
Huh?
MJG, you have been told this before by others, about your great presumptions lasting even into your nominally seasoned dotage, but you do not know …
Was anyone talking about you? Oh, oh, wait, are you and MJG the same person ??
(I read that Jeb! thinks BO uses too big words too.)
Now I gotta go back and see where I ever linked to a voluminous pdf. Maybe it was some pertinent economics paper? …
>> gratuitous reference to me as some sort of “reportage” monitor is needlessly provoking and simply wrong.
Wait, what? This is a role you have assumed many times, most recently above, railing after reading an editorial as something other, .…
>> An organization lobbying for some changes is going to put out studies/press releases/etc. that justify their point of view.
What does that even mean? You are concluding that the closing clause concerning audience and service delivery goal…
I was getting psyched about her poise and smarts until her grotesque, grisly lying and pandering about abortion and her misrepresentation of biz record and career. Phooey! I thought she might offer something real.
I would never pay fund purchase charges at Fido; if I feel really strongly, I will go directly to the parent company (Vanguard e.g.). JABAX used to be NTF at Fido.
Since the Fido guys started, fall 08, it very slightly outdoes VWENX. As does JABAX…
This actually has more detail. MJG can inform us whether it is reportage.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/09/17/the-republican-party-has-allergy-facts/AlbsCuP4e4GobyqCmYImbJ/story.html
>> title of the work, “Crazy Talk at the Republican Debate”, hints at bias in the piece.
Huh? Hints? You are probably not unaware of what circular reasoning is.
It was an editorial and so identified; nothing dishonest about it. I guess I c…
Part of the reason I am fascinated by MJG's post is that this (NYT) was my takeaway in toto:
They were there freely, armed with the best arguments they and their policy advisers had come up with, to make their cases as seasoned politicians, busines…
>> committed to watching the entire 5 hours of the [Republican] candidate debate
>> I admire the résumés of most of those who appeared yesterday. There’s attractive variety there. ... In general, I’m impressed with their credentials.
C…
Actually this:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2007/feb/15/who-was-milton-friedman/
plus two good letters. And all from 8y ago.
LB, thanks much for Wiesenthal quick overview; he's good.
It still would be smart at some point to prudently…
LB, I do not how that ratio came to be a standard, perhaps something to do with stability and consistency? Maybe Dex will know the background. I am poking around and learning from these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_Sta…
