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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.
'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…
I am holding (only) because I trust the family and the method, but cannot affirm that that is necessarily good advice. In retirement I value downside protection and assume Yackts still have that. As for alternatives, I have moved a lot into DSENX.
Some interesting recent history facts:
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2015/08/public-and-private-sector-payroll-jobs.html
(PK) ... Reagan’s objective achievements weren’t all that great. In terms of the economy, his record is trumped by Clinton…
Interesting how the two funds he touts (Core and Total) and discusses the strategies of lag PONDX. I know they are not quite directly comparable, but still.
Anna will probably know the answer to that.
Certainly glad JG is involved in the bond part…
I'm a perma-bull. I think many investors are. If by it you mean you believe the market will recover after dips and continue heading upward. It's the nicest thing at 68 about having lived as an investing adult in these decades following the 1960s.
@little5bee:
>> don't think he has the temperament
Haha, among so many other other things. Tithing?
Ted, don't forget to skip some pages!
If leaders did not matter, then market behaviors would be similar under either party, and of course …
Yeah, this is how I read him, and rightly or wrongly is seriously at odds with very thoughtful and deeply researched work earlier in the year from Morgan, Goldman, and Fidelity. Maybe he will prove right. In retirement, I am not acting accordingly.
>> Has anyone read Patrick Henry's "Speech to the Virginia Convention" or Thomas Paine's "Crisis"?
Sure.
Anyone read Garfield's inaug address (thanks, Jill Lepore)? Those were the days.
... we do not now differ in our judgment concerning t…
Imagine 'investing' that amount in someone like Cruz. Wow. So wack. (As wack as the complete misunderstanding of the Second Amendment.)
The swallows in our back fields are happy campers, but I wish we had more bats this summer. Lots of everything e…
L5b, I hope you waltz to 'Crossroads', yes :) .
Yeah, socialist sure has replaced Hitler as an all-purpose rightwingnut epithet to hurl at anything progressive. Wonder what term they used during westward expansion (chiefly a federal gov enterprise)…
>> those who from this point on shall only be named as 'downward trending from the left or 'dtfl' have this country on a dangerous slide.
lolz, dangerous slide. You could do some speechwriting in NH tonight and tomorrow for the GOP clown tra…
>> ... do not put at risk more than you can afford to lose without impacting your standard of living.
This sort of thing puzzles me greatly. How to invest then? If 'lose' means go to zero, then most of us would be doing equities around the e…
The urgency and high drama have been there from the getgo, 49y ago;
check 3:24ff:
or 26:50ff of the whole album (highly recommended):
The playing prior is also high-emotion, of course.
The chief thing EC developed after this, or refined …
