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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.
I agree totally about all progressivism-rebuttal debate, shouting down with hatred, but the below does not seem anything like what BR claims, dishonest seriously>? --- just maladroitly put and sequenced yet easy to fix by a competent editor:
Sto…
@JC
A problem in Mass. is that teachers finally make good money, really good money, per seniority and extras and whatnot, and do not retire but keep on. This also means many kids get extremely high-level instruction, often, and not just in the rich …
@Mona
>> I was told by your President
Mine? Huh? You know how I vote? And you are not a US citizen?
I hope your secret knowledges apply to investing too :)
@Mona,
There're lies and there're lies. I am not sure this piece below has all of the details 100% correct or up to date about timing and grandfathering, although the comments are chiefly rightwing spittle and thus no help as to the facts. (msf migh…
OJ, very good. Live free or die, as some say up here.
? You know the cartoon of the guy standing in front of his burning house telling the just-arrived firefighters 'No, thanks, I'm a libertarian.'
http://imgc-cn.artprintimages.com/images/P-473-4…
Mona, thanks very much for responding, honestly and frankly; and yes, I can see why your plan was noncompliant, as some would argue it certainly should be and have always been, with no mental health, no preventive, and with level-of-current-health p…
@IE --- >> it's my understanding that a plan able to exclude those with preexisting conditions is, prima facie, noncompliant with the ACA.
oh, yes, of course, sorry to have forgotten that obvs parameter. Thanks and apologies.
I am waiting t…
>> "to comply with federal law", as noted in the documentation from the plan provider."
\\\ Yep, the govt is dictating every angle it appears.
oh, it is, it is, whatever will become of us under this tyrant?
What lameass excuse did the insu…
In retirement now the chief reason I have so much with the Yackts is the comparatively shallowness of their dips, this year and historically, vs SPY and the rest.
I also do wonder how much longer DSENX's secret rotational (?) sauce is going to wor…
@darcey:
>> Private companies, who, as Accipiter pointed out, used the passage of the ACA to increase premiums.
Question: Is it not also the case that many have used ACA passage (used here meaning were forced) to decrease premiums? I read q…
Oh, right. All of these work perfectly perfectly, and without fail, it's true, and all of them enable ginormous rewards.
Whenever one can tell the future, that is.
Lemme know some of those 'plenty of fund manager'.
Market is trending up, and I k…
'Don't lose' is at the same level of utility as luck. It means nothing. If it is your mantra or whatever the word is, you will never invest, or only in things so sure you will never make serious money. It should be recast as Avoid All and I Do Mean …
>> “If you have a law that makes explicit that healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it wouldn’t have passed,” Gruber said ...
It is just so freaking odd that someone supposedly as sharp as this guy did not instantly, instantly, in…
I did not mean to imply, and do not believe, that politics and investing are not profoundly connected at many subtle levels and in many ways clear and occult. I was just reacting to the wheezing clanking machinery raising the ex machina notions and …
It opened fine in a new session of Chrome, but I did get some funky fake Adobe install page download with a launch out of an existing chrome page to a new one; sorry. It also launched perfectly in a clean launch in IE and FF.
So give it a try (wel…
omg is this fantastically comical and fantastically ignorant, that "out-of-control government spending" is a major, or the major, or even an important problem. Wow, wow, wow.
It is always fascinating to me that the undeserving poor are to be scorned so much more than the undeserving rich. That those who receive say public assistance should be better than the mass of us.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/hi…
The chief reason anyone writes about PRPFX is that 97-03 period. Before and after those six years, you do better (including the bumps he cites, almost) with something like GLRBX.
Concur in this Geico take, and especially so if willing not to need agent face time. Costco Ameriprise (probably also true if direct, not via Costco) is amazingly inexpensive, even moreso if you bundle house and liability umbrella. Two older drivers…
Why not a zillion would be its folly plus the backlash. Teslas to Those People. But the stimulus argument is centered on insufficient demand, and since we deal in our own money, thank the Lord, more demand would be good and would cure a whole bunch …
Infrastructure projects would've been awesomest, but not possible, and you know why.
Your thoughtful posts have little to do with wingnutism, seems to me. Your felt attacked?
http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-krugman-is-right-2013-4 gets into …
If you read the article closely, you see that the hed is, typically enticingly, misleading to a significant extent. There are good arguments to be made (and have been made) that QE should have been waaay more. And as for waste, whatever that could c…
For 45y I have heard the rule 2 is don't forget rule 1, yada, and no one has said How can I follow rule 1 scrupulously, seriously. Same for most of the other rules.
Huh? The mother's lesson has zero to do with logic or rightness or ability to deduce and conclude. It's about rudimentary etiquette and not namecalling.
OJ,
Touchy, are we? I can't tell if you're being pretend not-getting-it, or contrary, or what, but yeah, it was a stupid remark, and I thought so, and would be glad to say such. Your mom did teach you the diff b/w calling someone stupid and saying t…
Anna, unless you reasonably expect to die soonish, meaning short of the norm for 66yo female, delay as long as you can (ideally till 70) if you can afford to live till then using other resources. Study the graph here:
www.schwab.com/public/schwab/n…
Charging excessive PCness re this instance seems wack. I am all for sharpness and wit (attempted wit) alike, and assume my postings sometimes so reflect. But I would put it as OJ just did, rather than his first way, that's all.
I guess I have to g…
Oh, please, you are being disingenuous in asking such a rhetorical question. *You wrote that Tb personifies the dumbing-down of America.*
Period.
That's personal by anyone's definition.
Okay, I say you yourself are a rude moron (and probably u…
Don't disagree, but cops train all the time, good ones anyway, and I was thinking more of layman comfort and reliable operability with a revolver. As for shotgun, just sleep on the stock, come on.
What Jerry said. I am sure you know the stats about who most likely (by far) is injured or killed if you have anything along these lines in your house. So unasked advice would be not to do it.
That said, I would get a revolver, for reliability, 9mm…
Hey now, Tb has added to some of the discussions, as has MxB, so let us not banish anyone, please.
That said, the idea of serious spending on an agreed domestic 'common good' sure seems quaint these days. To put it most nicely. (More like many thin…
I would never deny SS or Medicare bens to the very wealthy just for reasons of perception, on the grounds of fairness/unfairness and the appearance of fairness. Bald redistribution is guaranteed to worsen things. Any way in this country these days t…
