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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.
When I needed some revision surgery 12y after the first op, I asked the doc if the need had to do w subpar work prior. He said 'Nope; life happens; wear and tear'. I said 'What about 12y from now? Will I need it yet again? Will your work last longer…
@msf, ty again. I think I will stop using UI quite as casually and decisively as I have been.
I suppose sleep-at-night is UI wrt one's personal psychology / anxiety.
I concur in the first example. I have to think further about second example; my…
@msf, my 'petty' proofing and query had only to do with whether the quote posted as from the WSJ was actually from the WSJ, given the 'typo'; no one here is served by inexactness, of which there is enough, much less suspect or sketchy origin, and fo…
tnx
There has been no little discussion here in the past of risk, relative risk, and volatility (is this what you meant by defining UI as 'length and duration of the maximum drawdown over a period of time'), perhaps some of it already including yo…
+1
otoh, some smart diving into the dynamics:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/upshot/markets-work-but-untangling-global-supply-chains-takes-time.html
A local cable channel specializing in westerns-action movies (Wayne, Cruise, Willis et alia) ran a campaign last week along these lines, with explosions in the background:
'Your kids drive in from out of town with the grandchildren, to see grandpa;…
>> the relative underperformance of value with respect to growth in the past three years is unprecedented.
By my read, of the (difficult for me) Fidelity $10k-growth charting for VONE vs VONV, much less VONG, the underperformance holds for th…
Handling 'static' wealth and increases thereof is forever problematic, but the current state is untenable.
For a cold look, or perhaps it's a hot look, at the state of play from the other direction, check out this article, including the comments, …
Oh, I am thinking I would fault them a bit. They know how their star system is used, and when it lacks nuance and context to this extent, and when star changes seem capricious, what's a consumer to do? (As an instructions writer, I know the answer: …
@davidrmoran Don't assume I didn't check.
How could I not assume that?
'Fidelity's screen shows 2426 ETFs and 80 ETNs available.
https://research2.fidelity.com/pi/etf-screener'
Fido has a limited number of etf to choose from plus some iShare options. Their offering seems very limited to me. Fido that is.
Huh? Why are you posting stuff like this without bothering to check? What are you talking about, or do you think you are…
+1 to what LB just wrote, and I do not much invest in mfunds anymore myself, for all of the good tired reasons. I posted what I did just because no one talks anymore about those two Fido warhorses.
I just noticed, since someone mentioned elsewhere PRBLX performance blah blah, that two hoary funds which one probably wanted to be in since mid-Feb '20, which are huge and neglected in this forum and abandoned / disdained as to gogo sex appeal and …
@davidrmoran - remember your audience.
k, sure, but I have known acquaintances close to the opposite of progtards like me whose conscience has been shocked and eyes opened by those three reports (which is why I chose them).
Somehow I thought a combination of the recent Florida house appraisal story, this sort of legislative history (https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america), and the new delving of the Tul…
my god is this an amusing thread
>> I'm all for non-discrimination but this quickly morphs into quotas, pandering, virtue signaling, and advocacy for all of the Alphabet People. Should I really feel better about a company because board seats…
entirely welcome; it is highly useful and granular, and the devo (not young by any means) answers email questions and also writes good helpfiles about the variables
>> Absent COLA adjustments, the real value of waiting would be substantially less,
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8% annually has appeal in an absolute sense, inflation and CoLA aside, most suggest.
Is there literature on claiming early because of inflation calculat…
>> This idea that SS increases at 8% per year strikes me as fallacious. In "dollars," sure, but not in purchasing power ... the rate at which SS benefits are adjusted for inflation is only a fraction of the rate of inflation actually experienc…
