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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.
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…
Whoa, I am gonna get out of all indexed holdings, go to active only, plus emerging only. I just know that will prove better by 2022, so I can laugh at all diversified and balanced chumps.
MJG, point taken about asymmetry. As a sometime stats editor, I used to like to throw out high and low, in order to bell-curve things a little bit more, but today that's not so kosher. The Shaq quip was from Robert Reich, with a different average, a…
I believe I see some improvement, with journalists of all sorts more and more (maybe it's their eds :) ) using median instead of mean (=average). Median has its own problems, but not like the usual ones with average or mean, as in Shaq's and my aver…
The chief thing I took from the piece is how short bear markets are, or at least not long. And of course you ought not to have moneys you will need nearterm in equities (he said).
I was going to switch my retirement buckets 0 and 1, or part of them, from cash to FLRN, FLOT, BSCF, and BOND, commissionfree, but the extra money difference does not look that all that compelling even for significant sums.
This is pretty confused; I think the guy doesn't fully know the subject. Why separate out regions and grapes in such a confusing manner? They overlap. A true taxonomy would be cool, and has probably been done elsewhere with complex arrows: white bur…
>> 45 years it has returned essentially what the stock market has returned,
I must be missing something. Since origin, summer 1970, it has more than doubled SP500.
Wellington and DODBX have done notably better, but Windsor, FCNTX, and SEQ…
I read coverage that said its product measured higher than others and factory workers were interviewed who said that is why it was cheaper. This is all like thirdhand.
I don't know the levels of formaldehyde measured offgassing from this evil flooring, but I can say that the UFFI insulation megillah 35y ago was complete bullshit. You could have
Thanks much for flagging this, very interesting, especially when you graph the two since inception against VOO and RSP. His arguments appear thoughtful. Will be intriguing to see how TUTT does against DSENX and, oh, some-of-everything AOA.
It has done very well since that article too, better than stellar funds we all know and love. Maybe I will dive in :) .
See also:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2015/01/23/mysterious-d-c-mogul-steve-rales-is-behind-oscar-nom…
