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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.
sorry, extra-dim tonight and not quite following ... yes, the ML account shows a loss of 3.9% with everything reinvested, every month buying b/w 1 and 44 shares
relatedly:
Springtime for Scammers
Financial predation now has friends in high places
Paul Krugman
Feb 11
Just over two years ago Wells Fargo agreed to pay $3.7 billion — $1.7 billion in penalties and $2 billion in damages — to the Consumer Fi…
One of the appeals of public sector work is that a tradeoff for lower pay is expectation of stability and longevity (assuming good performance) barring budget cuts.
Not sudden layoff in the middle of doing really important work due to destructive …
I really want to have a one fund solution but I always find a reason to rule out every contender. Too much international,,, too long a bond duration,,, too much tech,,, not enough tech. But the main reason is I am afraid of being locked into 70% fi…
nope
see if you can somehow anon-open this article
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-and-elon-musks-blitzkrieg-attack-on-government.html
You guys are running a sit com. Ya I just added a couple of zeros to make someone chase their tail. $630m is about $20b today. Ok the US (contractor) lost 22-30,000 workers. I saw when googled “ Estimates of the number of people who died building th…
see if y'all can read this
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/musk-federal-government.html
try and stop me w your slow weak institutions, just try
oh, sure, grift, graft, possible bribery:
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-has-trump-gone-soft-on-china
"Could China have, in effect, bought itself lower tariffs by enriching Trump personally?"
the end of North America, as (the data-driven; pace FD1k) PK puts it in today's substack column:
U.S. trade law gives the president huge discretion to impose tariffs, but only for a specific set of reasons: economic injury from import surges (Secti…
Deportation agreement! How much per head is this costing the tax payer?
Far less than one single life taken by one of them!
you do know about immigrant crime rates, yes?
@BaluBalu, I have had fentanyl and it is heavenly. This was a year ago, after getting hit by a car, full of shakes and chills and worse. It worked so well I told the nurse I would crawl back out in the parking lot and get hit again if I could have m…
Rick,
In TDS, I assumed D stands for Daddy. As in, Trump fills the Daddy void in real life for some people.
God the father aside, you of course have read the recent belt and spank fantasies of sundry rightwingnuts like MelG et alia.
Every day I dive into Salon, Slate, DailyBeast, TNR, Atlantic, NewYorker, NYReview of Books, Vox, Politico, NYmag, Guardian, the Times and WaPo, BostonGlobe, and a few other sites and blogs (not bragging, just a compulsive retired editor/writer). AP…
oh, indeed --- he is the very fucking definition, which I was not going to say
fortunately here fur die goyim means "before (in front of) the nations"
of the bloody world
I could almost swear I've seen Miller as a Gestapo officer in some WWII movie.
Oh, sure, you have, we all have.
But a first for someone Jewish, I expect.
Think of how to resist, in even the tiniest of ways. Don't give in to despair. Beyond the…
@msf
While unconditional pardons are allowed by the Constitution, this does not mean that pardoning the nation’s enemies does not violate his oath of office “ to faithfully execute the Office of the United States …”. I think a strong argument can…
About Biden and his record, and about extremism, you fully do not know what you are talking about, and as I said before, I am really, really surprised to see this from you
