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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.
>> will revert to whatever she wants
Probably not, but if she did, that would probably seem pretty liberal to some, if you know the arc of her thinking over the years.
Yeah, I misspoke; I meant the loud crazies' influence is slowly waning on many fronts and many people pay them less or no mind anymore. The waning process does seem to take forever, though.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/03/pollin…
>> folks who come here for mutual fund news, commentary, and fund views.
Do you think the category buttons to the left should be laid out / emphasized differently, or colored, or something? To make it easier to avoid the non-mf areas?
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You would, huh? Half of GOP primary voters?
We have different senses of what 'mass' and 'public' and 'outcry' mean, all three terms. Talk about Faux News low-information types.
Whatever. The president will be gone soon enough. The crazies will f…
LB,
There was no 'mass public outcry' re PotUS. Only to those who listen to AM radio or watch Fox; perhaps you are fretting them overmuch? Lotta loud voices carrying far these years, sigh. Less far by the week, though.
This is pretty amusing if yo…
Such sketchy information, so easy to check, the ancient and customary meaning of natural-born, US-born being just one defining criterion among many:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/mar/26/ted-cruz-born-canada-eligible-run-presi…
Yes, he and a few other unlikelys. As a born buckeye I was just on a nostalgia tour there and heard a bit about him, including that he's quite the jerk and no one can stand him. A pity if so, as he has some interesting ideas.
Some others will emerg…
Of course there are many many other, important differences b/w RJC and Trump.
It does not matter. There is no universe in which DT will ever be president. Sad about GOP voters; we sure need informed argument, more than ever.
catch22, it is easy enough in 8.1 (as in 7) to implement an XP- or Vista-like opening UI, taking little effort and including Start button etc. And W10 is said to be easier yet,
J Bewick was/is real good, Fido, IIRC. Maybe she is mentioned already. Susan Byrne, Westwood, is another, though not sure where she is actively decisionmaking these days.
Nothing wrong with the more recent revs of IE, and it is now (finally) sleeker too. Seems to handle sketchy sites a bit more robustly and effectively than the other two, ditto some video media. But I use all three, IE the least, lamenting only when …
A subtle and complex set of variables and history, quite like life:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/03/18-key-facts-about-greece-that-will-leave-you-totally-up-to-date-about-a-huge-crisis/
>> I'm going to stay for now
BW, stet.
I have never had at at any firm any retirement fund that was not free for life, or that charged for adding to / reinvesting in it. Indeed, that plus what funds are available is how I choose firms in th…
>> sleep factor as OJ put it
that would be me, I think
and not at all an original thought or phrase either, not even close
I perhaps shoulda made clear that at 68 I am not very much in bonds: cash and equity funds, though some are blended o…
>> Greece should at least take on some changes to reduce their debt
I have already posted many links showing that this has been the case, so suggest further study of the actual facts
>> the fact that Greece has a significant shadow ec…
>> If it involves a US bailout,
? Who says anything about that? Let the troika who helped create it handle it. It's not that large in the scheme of things. They have already done all the austerity feasible, and economically it is and has bee…
My 120k debt is at ~3.6% fixed and I can do better than that not paying that amount off but investing it. If I could refi at 40y (age 68), I would do so. It all comes down to sleep-at-night factor, that's all, hardly worth discussing in other, absol…
>> it turned out that the phone rep wasn’t a registered broker so he wouldn’t have been able to help me if I wanted to transfer securities
Huh? Phone reps never are, in my decades of experience going back to whoever I used before Paine Webbe…
I have half at Fido, no complaints, exemplary c/s, and half at Merrill. I strongly recommend the latter outfit, since they offer zero-commission trading (30 a month) if you have 25k in cash at BoA or at ML, including CDs. Otherwise commissions are $…
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No, accepting austerity conditions, whatever they are, will not have any efficacy, and did not in the past. You absolutely cannot 'austere' your way here to economic improvement or economic health.
Wolfgang Munchau today in FT:
If you …
Accepting the conditions, whatever they are, will not have any efficacy. You cannot 'austere' (if that is what is meant) your way here to economic improvement or health.
Wolfgang Munchau in FT:
If you have been unemployed for five years, with no p…
Thanks much; quite as I thought, comically. I had assumed there was something new here since Burns was writing about it. But it's the same old confidence fairy shit.
Maybe Paul should rerun the number at 20% flat and $100k exemption. Or something. …
Where does it say how much money this great new plan would raise, compared with the swampy situation we have now? Did I miss something? How do the outcomes score in terms of what $ we need to have to do the stuff we do?
I also would like to know w…
They are almost all in some form of serious trouble --- great survey of the data here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/03/opinion/paul-krugman-europes-many-disasters.html
Not perfectly what you asked for, but perhaps of interest anyway:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/02/the-legacy-of-the-bush-tax-cuts-in-four-charts/
DS,
Thanks v much for answering my query. You'd think the wikip page would be more substantial.
>> If they do regress, the stock market crashes. If they don't regress, the economy crashes ...
All righty then, that settles that.
>> Grantham argues that we’re heading for a massive stock market crash (something on the order of a 60% fall), ...
>> Grantham ... once again reiterated his belief that US stocks are 30 – 60% overvalued, still paying for overvaluation s…
>> simply was quoting from your article which I believe is generally true about the attitude of many Greek's toward work and leisure.
Ted, jeez, dude, you blew it, totally. I think you have kvetched about some here not reading fully or prope…
