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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.
Anna, thanks for clarification. If you tell me more about the NYT article I will post it, or a section of it. (Don't forget you can often use an incognito session of the four major browsers and see the article n/p.) I agree that most low-wage are pr…
Anna,
What do you mean? Every fastfood worker I have ever met works as many hours as allowed, so yeah, up to 40 if not more. Barbara Ehrenreich's books (at least Nickel and Dimed, IIRC) get into that thoroughly. See also
http://www.nytimes.com/2015…
Desalination takes considerable energy, and transport likewise, costs aside. And there is zero chance of funding it publicly. Better to move and let the SW desert revert, haha. Plenty of water in parts of Ohio and the Northeast. Maybe prez Trump wil…
Me too :)
Kevindow, you have set a new very low threshold for 'bloated, end of story', but more important you seem not to be making wise comparisons, really. Good ETFs, yours, but not good comparisons. And to revisit the tired active-passive arg, j…
Thanks; I read this back when, 2.5y ago, but did not pay enough attention.
Son has been doing decisionmaking for well over a decade now, so much of the success is due him. Sounds like quite the aspiring prick, but you know.
HP quote is pretty funn…
>> doesn't seem to be as grounded.
BW, thanks; can you give a link? I have inferred this too to some extent but cannot remember where, or find it. Officially there appears to have been no management change, father to son (see M* management en…
>> bonafide Three Alarm Fund month ending May 2015
More sore limitations of the methods here, and the historical timescales.
What do we pay for, or want to pay for, intend to pay for, in paying a manager? It is unlikely that Charles et alia …
In some, maybe many, respects you seem to have it precisely backward. Or something. GLRBX shd be nearer bucket, FSCRX way farther out. Strangely jumbled in other ways too.
thin gruel for sure, just read it to see why; won't take long
What is outstanding about him, what have you MJG learned? cf the last decades of Waggoner's columns (he is also retiring). Now there is someone to learn from.
>> One of the greatest bankers of all time !
Another priceless lol line:
Jamie Dimon is the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, and 2013 that bank paid $20 billion in fines, which is an extraordinary number. Think about it. I think it beats by a factor …
that'll be the day
There can never be too much of this sort of digging:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/jamie-dimons-raise-proves-u-s-regulatory-strategy-is-a-joke-20140130
Correct.
A couple of years' cash in addition to SS, maybe a bit more, is what I have been doing in all my calcs.
I was just querying OP about that 3-5y and its source. A good way to stay out of the market unduly.
Wronger than not, Singer has often been a pretty good contrary indicator.
This discussion, and wording like 'not ending well', are pretty amazing to me. What do end and well mean? With enough time, it has never not ended well.
Junkster, we think of trends very differently, evidently.
At the 1987 crash, Dow was up like 18% for the year --- started around 1900, by 16Oct 2250 approx; Aug high (=year high( was 2640, sure. So off its Aug highs, yes. But just look at a graph.…
No, I just play geezer hoops with rich friends in biopharm who knew it was presenting last weekend at some Jeffries onco conference. All public info (alas). (I live in extremely wealthy towns crawling with tech, bio, and money manager types.) So I b…
>> The markets were already in established downtrends before that time.
Not so much, at least 1987 not at all. Look at SP500 and FCNTX. For 7y ago, yes, this week right now was the very week of turn. Not much of a trend prior, spring 08.
I…
+1
Longer-form investigation is indeed what the Globe sometimes does extremely well as to news; God knows it's not editing or 'normal' newspaper news coverage.
Know Lazonick et alia at HBR pretty well, just did not want to post of additional mater…
Well, inflation cannot be viewed or properly understood in isolation apart from the rest of US economic activities and their consequences:
Some of the reasoning, from three years ago (PK):
\\\ … would a rise in inflation to 3 percent or even 4 per…
>> you're not (in theory) getting inclusion of any more midcap stocks than are already in the S&P 500.
Yeah, I was wondering about that and how it works, in terms of what accounts for the outperformance.
Should not have used the term 's…
Much better, evidently, go 50-50 RPG and RPB, with inclusion of midcap and some small to boot because of equal cap weighting:
http://etfdb.com/news/2015/02/24/why-pure-style-etfs-matter-examining-growth-rpg-and-value-rpv/
Wow. If you do 5k every other day, say, for many days (say you need to xfer 133k), what happens, do you think? Any sense from the c/s guy mandated to get in touch with you and read from a script?
Oh, great, a snotty comeback from you; productive. It is not I who is kneejerk and does not give serious thoughtfulness to gradations and modulations of approaches. As I implied, tell us your thoughtful and substantiated philosophies about fluoride,…
What a ridiculous comeback, freedom a bad word, to a sarcastic aside. Freedom! Yeah, that'll solve the problem.
No, not mandatory. That would get the attention of Fox howler monkeys. But incentives and strong encouragement and forced opting-out wi…
JC, come on, you need cases to try to get to court-level argument. You have to argue harm and principle and all sorts of related. But I suspect you really know that and just want to take shots instead.
It would be good for someone to file something…
Mandated reporters (brokerages and merchants alike) do not have a lot of discretion and can get in trouble if they do not follow thus and such. The Fido story sounds unusual and worth pursuing, if only for curiosity; I have found them usually to be …
>> If employees want a retirement vehicle, they could do it on their own versus waiting for the company. If the employee is not interested, then it doesn't matter?
Because why, freedom?
The whole point is that it matters regardless. People …
No, someone quickly reviews it most of the time, certainly at a place like MSN and Fox; the point is that that someone has to know some history and some facts and have some memory function. Judgment is good too.
Such fakakta misidentification:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/30/1388977/-Did-You-Know-Dennis-Hastert-Was-a-Democrat
Man, is that messed up. AP, MSN, Fox. Wow. Talk about lameass QC.
