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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.
ancient bill appears to be in subcommittee:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2202?s=1&r=5
like air pockets but not quite
https://www.propublica.org/article/scientific-study-links-flammable-drinking-water-to-fracking
(old…
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/opinion/environment/energy-crisis-oil-gas-fracking.html#commentsContainer
Almost all of the Reader Pick comments are of interest, and those of GLC and some others do some substantiated rebutting. The author meant …
Yet somehow in 2022 it seems possible. You should insist on crypto for all prepayments.
Probable, even. There has got to be money made in period tracking! My adult daughter asked if women now could (or should) wear cute service-animal vests, so I am…
As of Monday I will have in registration two new abortion-related ETFs, one anti-choice and one pro-choice. Low min. DM me; full information and details available upon nonrefundable prepayment of $700. (Half of all ETF gains go toward doxxing women …
Well, from the S&P purchasing manager index this morning:
Although supply constraints remained problematic,
constraining economic activity, the weakening demand
environment has helped to alleviate inflationary
pressures. Average prices charged…
Recently made significant (for me) moneys dip-buying and presently selling COWZ, VONG, QQQ, and CDC. Would that it had been not thousands but tens thereof.
@BenWP
>> Other bucks that might be in straight equity funds have found their way into alternative strategies, all of which were suggested in MFO Commentary or discussions.
do go on
>> feel comfortable with the fund’s [[HAPY]] methodo…
@LewisBraham, thank you. Appreciated.
All well. I just have not been in the mood anymore, with so much financial loss. (The straw at the time was reading loopholes about 'unintentional / inadvertent' naked shorting, which made me decide life is t…
This is terrific patter.
>> One might not be able to deliver shares that had already been located. That's different from being unable to locate shares.
Surely there is if not a cite for this an example from experience, or case law?
You h…
har, wonder if anyone remembers IBD
LSummers is altogether objective insofar as being evidence-based goes; he just interprets the data differently from some (not all) others, as do all economists.
In other words he does not conclude based on whim…
>> This is going off into never never land with no sources.
Again, https://www.natlawreview.com/article/sec-brings-naked-short-selling-case contains the point, with a 'may', which I maybe should have included. Would that have really made all…
Nocera (following Greenberg) has been muddying the water b/w shorting, even aggressive and disinformation-spreading shorting, and naked shorting (increasing the float) for many years now, building strawmen, blaming the victim, building defenses upon…
@Baseball_Fan
You pretend to be reality-oriented but post from rightwingnut sites w comedy charts instead of engaging w data-based posts? I mean, give yourself a fighting chance. Did you actually look at those I&I charts? Attempt to comprehend …
PByrne was treated outrageously way back when (15y ago) by naked shorters, whose actions eventually resulted in increased crackdown and the rare prosecution attempt (it's flatly illegal, goes the argument). Herb Greenberg (MarketWatch and elsewhere)…
Well, Orange County... what's new? Let them have their school- at least they won't be causing trouble at the other public schools.
if only
https://www.salon.com/2022/03/17/the-far-rights-national-plan-for-schools-plant-charters-defund-public-educa…
A 14-point thread about frontloading of inflation expectations, longterm prospects and maturities, and construction timing:
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1504158983669616642
a good primer
weird that investopedia does not include SP on that deferred page I linked; a taxonomy of this stuff at the level of your writeup would be excellent, and distinction b/w deferred and deferred income would be clear.
I knew Mass. did…
PK tw today, slightly upbeat:
Thinking about the macroeconomics of the Putin shock. In the '70s oil price shocks were associated with severe recessions. But did they *cause* those recessions? A classic study including some people you may have heard…
Did not intend to mislead or confuse; Fidelity e.g. makes little distinction.
Create future retirement income
This Fidelity Viewpoints article explains how deferred annuities work and the role they play in a retirement income plan.
which is the …
In this kind of market phase, anyone who thinks a drop of 5% 'stinks' has simply not been through enough rodeos. I would luuuuv it if my portfolio were down only 5%.
The democratic socialism proposed and practiced widely elsewhere has nothing to do w socialism where gov sets prices. But serious people know that and don't scaremonger.
WWKS answers (not that that is what is really being asked, I bet) are easy to…
A sophisticated thread this is
https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=116&emc=edit_pk_20220311&instance_id=55524&nl=paul-krugman&productCode=PK&regi_id=22268089&s…
