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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.
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…
ha, good line, and good to remember
Someone posted recently the decade-plus it took for breakeven from that peak (for gogo tech anyway) ... only (only) 6y+ for SP500.
Completely OT --- can anyone explain why M* gives 4* to FXAIX and 5* to the fain…
ty, but har, I say
Luck of the market plus a little bit of my paying attention and assessing the froth.
(have been misassessing it again and again and again for over a year now of course)
Shiller p/e is meaningless, but I am thinking it will n…
>> I wonder if you took ER/fees into account... how those net results would look vs the index.
Why on earth would you think the comparison did NOT take those into account? Seriously.
http://performance.morningstar.com/fund/performance-retur…
@sma3
My thinking aligns with yours ('ill afford to lose...') and is what caused me to leave the market altogether 1y ago plus a couple other breakeven selling points. (Except for the occasional rally play since.) I have missed out on some hundreds…
lede
Ever since the covid-19 pandemic struck, the Federal Reserve has gotten plenty of kudos for moves that have helped stabilize the economy, kept house prices from tanking and supported the stock market. But those successes have obscured another …
fwiw, I myself thought BO's Nobeling to be silly and a lowering of the prize, and many suspected he thought so as well (there was writing about it), although the notional reason had to do w weapons nonproliferation and Midwest reachout, at the time …
If you change the aspect ratio of the Shiller cape, it may change how we think, to some extent (using family history site as graph placeholder).
Tech bubble is quite clear, otherwise smoothish growth w 08-09 dip and recent sick runup, but how odd …
You meant having to work up till taking SS --- well, sure.
had not understood you meant "waiting till 70 will more than likely have continued
working"
(meaning till then)
as written your phrasing said to me working past 70
