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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.
msf,
Also, only partly related, I have been curious about the grand rivers and small tributaries of US cashflow in the arguments about inequality. What are your thoughts about the fact that generally the overpaid (however defined) for the most part …
msf,
Would you please consider condensing and posting your thoughts to him
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(same column is at
http://www.dallasnews.com/business/columnists/scott-burns/20150718-burns-getting-our-social-security-moneys-worth.ece
with his em…
In that space I would do 50-50 RPV and RPG and hopefully slightly outperform all of the above. Even more than RSP, weirdly. Check out past performance. Not responsive to your OP, admittedly. Like SCHD too.
omg, lolz, *this* Congress??
I am old enough to remember, though not so long ago, when those within Congress agreed on lots of things of all kinds. But Bob Dole was a Republican then. (One discouraged dude with this GOP clown train.)
2016 will be …
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from the article:
>> That means 1 in every 20 households in the U.S. has more than $1 million in investable assets. Those figures don’t include the value of real estate.
I would never want this dude analyzing any holdings of mine. His conclusions seem unwarranted in almost all respects. There is overlap that could be addressed, probably.
OJ, sugg reading up before posting so flatly.
It may not matter. PK blog tonight:
... basically that Europe has created a system that treats surplus and deficit countries asymmetrically, even more than the classical gold standard, and leads to a s…
OJ, by 'present' you are describing firsthand experience after all the work done in and since the 2000s?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon
Germany, as many are pointing out, has certainly forgotten how they were treated as to their debts. B…
So you would think. Or hope. But it has been conclusively shown that you cannot 'austere' your way out of this situation, not even close, and their econ/monetary options are limited for being in the EU.
Parthenon to China, I guess.
What are you reading or watching?
Poor analogizing.
'Suppose you consider Tsipras an incompetent twerp. Suppose you dearly want to see Syriza out of power. Suppose, even, that you welcome the prospect of pushing those annoying Greeks out of the eu…
>> 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…
