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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.
It is hard for me to fathom how posting an economist's column gets any party started, really; I just thought investors here might be interested in how things actually work and what to sensibly worry about, and what not. Debt less than the savings gl…
>> We all are waiting for you to post something on point for this discussion.
And now you invoke hall monitor image, lolz
You got nothing. The very definition of ducking and evading.
Whatever, give it up and move on.
No pondering needed: mine had substance. That was the point, another one you missed. We all are waiting for you to post something on point for this discussion.
>> how can you argue with people who think debt is good
l5b, go back and read the articles about how gov debt is not at all like what you seem to be imagining, personal debt or something. Chiefly moneys we owe ourselves etc.
Why chime in di…
>> waste my time discussing views ... hearing anything that they don't agree with when it comes to these topics. It's okay you have your views on these topics. It's okay I don't agree with them.
Absolutely, sure ... but are you now claiming…
Comparing evidentiary economics to Scientology surely does represent the end of the discussion. A pity it comes down to the individual personality or whatever it is of one public economist when so many of the real pros agree with him. talk about off…
Yeah, meant to add to the balanced-fund discussion elsewhere that it is always good to compare whatever you are considering with AOK, AOM, and AOR, which are fine all-purpose inclusive vehicles.
@Dex,
Lol.
I would also enjoy hearing what you yourself advocate, specifics, details, rationales, refutations, as to policy and all else in the social and public and gov-financial spheres.
It is more fun to post offpoint quotes, I realize. This…
Bailing out the banks helped the poor, actually, significantly. But +1 to your spirit re what people will support against their own interests (Kafkaesque indeed) and also warmongering. But not the economy-saving actions of 08ff.
No, no ex-US situation; rather by state.
But I may have not kept up; sorry; meaning things have changed. I can now buy it via Fido ($50 fee). I still cannot buy it via ML. Only a few years ago no one in Massachusetts could buy it at all, along wit…
>> US will have stagnating employee wages and a VAT added to deal with the interest on the debt. General misery will ensue. That is the economic reality.
Wait, debt interest is, or is going to be, responsible for zero wage growth?
>>…
I am a big fan also of JABAX and also, in the past, ICMBX (more mid-oriented). No need to leave Fido, I think. MAPOX is another, depending on where you live.
Not clear why anyone should point another toward greater understanding, someone who posts without substance that Krugman is an idiot. But interest can be (and is) part of the self-dealing, self-owing, self-paying cashflow. I recognize it's hard to g…
Well, he has been writing intelligently and as loudly as possible about this for some years, so any yawn quality may be due just to its coming on the heels of the fool Paul comment, which was unusually stupid and lolz. I thought the penultimate para…
@scott,
Your mind appears fully made up and unamenable.
Still, the data, which always have a liberal bias as everyone knows, show the Keynesian stuff is the opposite of wrong. And others than you can study these:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com…
@Dex, you have not kept up with the fatal problems with the R&R work, evidently. I would post links, but they would have the K word in them.
L5b, that's the whole point, no need to pay it off. It's not like a household, and never has been. Deb…
OJ, ask the next time you go to Costco, at C/S, about its imminent death and disuse. I did recently, and yes, was surprised. I have the exact same thing. Use it get in the door.
'that comment'? You mean you think BP is fit to clean Lewinsky's dress, and/or should breed further? Never heard of anyone defending her other than family.
Right, Costco is not abandoning credit cards, I bet. Maybe I am mistaken and they will continue taking Amex if not offering their own special deal, but I believe I heard otherwise from them.
Is 'David' supposed to refer to me? If so, what the heck does that mean? Somehow unfair to snark on BP? Seriously?
Also tell me what the 'goals and standards' of this site are, if you would. Kind treatment of total hypocrite snowbilly grifters?
I …
Maurice, I am confused, or maybe you are. Costco canned Amex. They wanted an even better deal for themselves and customers. No more Amex at Costco, Fido's, nor their own, nor any other, period.
Nothing to do here with retaining a customer; not foll…
Think I concur in all these nicer views of poor Monica, but what is cruel about any treatment of ol' Bristol?? if anyone on the face of the Earth invites contemptuous ridicule, it's her and her ma and beaus, innit?
Crash,
If you were addressing me, I was speaking to Hand's reductionist, legalistic-coercive view of things. That's all. Emphasizing the 'enforced exaction'-ness of it all, as opposed to something one is very often quite glad to do. Coercive as oppo…
Jesus. If you know about how things have gone for her, you would know she has hardly been able to profit from anything. And of course comments like P'head's make abundantly clear why she might feel as if she cannot catch a break decades later. You m…
I don't know of any quirks at all w/ the Fido Amex card. Maybe I should read the fine print re minimums. We use nothing else unless merchant does not take, and thus total many hundreds of dollars in auto-deposits into Fido account every year. Nothin…
>> recent exchange
Huh? Where you do get that? Did you not read it? Looks to be copy/paste from various Gab reports and interviews.
Interesting to contemplate the end of stockpicking due to 'changing investment environment'.
>> Gabe…
Similar thinking, older data, and not necessarily the latest laws:
https://www.law.umich.edu/newsandinfo/features/Pages/kahn_waggoner.aspx
More recent:
... top economists say that the U.S. should tax top earners up to 90 percent.
"What you reall…
Burns has gotten odd intellectually, less thoughtful, a big surprise to this longterm reader.
The proposal has been demolished for several weeks:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/11/opinion/rand-pauls-fake-flat-tax.html
>> the government, either in the form of taxes or inflation, stole your rewards from you.
Good God, who thinks and writes like that today.
It was all I could do to slog on and read this drivel to the end.
Short-term chiefly, not too muc…
