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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.
Ah, right --- purity of essence!
(As a university TA long ago we taught this film also without sound, just having the students watch it, visually, a beautifully composed piece of work, among other things looking for images of loss of control throug…
@Ted,
Oh, no --- does that mean you do not want to join the cell?
Now, here is some real redistribution:
\\\ ... one of the main things [ACA] does is raise taxes rather dramatically on a pretty small number of high-income people in order to give …
Good ol' HUAC has been cold dead for 40y, thank goodness, although the Judiciary committee has some of its nominal functions. The "outlawing" of the Party has never been repealed, although nobody anywhere enforces it, so there may be hope yet here i…
@MJG, I am very impressed that someone who reads any Heritage lit whatsoever spent two hours on Wolff. Good on you. Zermop nicely ends with potential advocacy of 'public ownership of large, national industries, like mines and farms.'
Thanks v much; two illuminating responses. I will let you know what M* response is to my query. Maybe they will just say 'Dude, you do not know what you own,' in violation of investing rule 3.
except with a lot of bonds (at a remove). What ratio, is my question.
This whole thread started with acknowledgment of it as LV, yes. I mean, check out the CAPE index it attempts to surpass.
At market close today I added to DSENX and now have 35-40% of our nut in it, so I wonder if there is any accuracy whatsoever to M*'s characterization of it as like a 50-50 balanced fund.
Crash, msf, if you need another laugh at M* and their DB work, go to Instant X-ray and put in 1k or whatever of DSENX and see what you get. (No US stocks, the 27% now moved to foreign, etc.) Wild.
(Also meaning I won't be readily able to analyze my …
Thanks --- I know! At Fido the min for is way higher, 100k, I believe, which I would meet, but you still have to pay $50, which totally and immaturely irrationally sticks in my craw. (I could run the numbers.) I just want to be able to bail in a yea…
ha, legs are long broken, partly, metaphorically, investment and otherwise.
Looks like about half stocks and related. How I read 'other', in other words.
See
http://www.thinkadvisor.com/2013/11/22/gundlach-on-shiller-cape-fund-a-better-mousetrap…
Crash -- ? wtf? DSENX is LV, the others are all moderate allocation, right?
I don't disagree that proper categorizing is pretty problematic for this rotating LV fund indexing some value-rotating ETN, but with secret sauce added via debt derivatives…
jeez, get a grip:
http://www.democracyatwork.info/about/
As if modulating rapacious capitalism is going to result in, what, no more equity markets?? Please.
Surely many here have heard of the new cdiff (and other conditions) treatments:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/01/29/you-can-earn-13000-a-year-selling-your-poop/
Good grief, what a bogus and madeup article. I know, let's run a piece about fickle moneys fled from Gross/Pimco and whither it went. Who in his or her right mind cares about the largest index tracking the aggregate in bonds? (It lags AGG, slightly,…
Hank, thanks much. I wonder if this 7yo study's assertions and conclusions still hold over a dramatic time of increased volatility plus improvement in analytic tools. My guess is not, but talk about confirmation bias (mine).
>> The ability of actively managed funds to outperform during bear markets is overrated. In some bear markets they do and in others they don't. More important perhaps, the Vanguard study found that in the years following bear markets, index fu…
'The fastest way to succeed is to double your rate of failure.'
-- supposedly Thomas Watson Sr., from 'Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation'
'An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a narr…
Actually, later (meaning "latest") thinking tends quite to the direction STB65 indicates.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/18/3-things-to-know-about-the-new-blood-pressure-guidelines/
(note point 2 in particular)
later:
http://well.blogs.nyti…
Yay for plug of VF; RollingStone is also first-rate sometimes (not only Taibbi, but him chiefly); NY Magazine. But this is mostly investigative-dirt stuff. I could not live without WSJ financial reporting, and its auto-rightwingnut comedy is always …
Marketwatch has some non-rightwing columnists, and of course M* avoids politics, like any substantial and serious financial publication. IBD has been a nut joke for a long time now, but some newsy finance-only articles (and the graphs) are solid.
Comments are too funny. The distribution isn't known, but I would bet that just under $29B over ~170k people is not all that badly skewed with lots of $4k bonuses along one long tail. Knowing medians might be helpful.
This is atop ~$400k salary, p…
