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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.
So what? Is that really a good argument against emergency disaster relief?
And please do not bothsides this. McConnell and his party are the only ones causing suffering and death here.
"Clean" WHERE? This usually means solar power, and while a laudable idea, you have to have large tracts of surface available, good weather most of the time, and you need to manufacture the stuff (polluting THERE) in order to build the panels. This…
here is a basic econ review of the tradeoffs, sort of
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/opinion/trump-coronavirus-relief.html
So what we need at this time is
- drastic and disciplined behavioral policies (mandates, enforcement) to prevent dise…
It's okay, this offering of mine sans prospectus is not shown in the discussion board display. It's all good. I now think the whole MFO OT arena should be an area to be gamed, and I will add that the DJT library is indeed real and I am accepting don…
>> Basically if you're under 60 and healthy there's a 99% chance you'll live.
May be. What's the cite for this?
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographics is interesting.
Of course you know that QoL is majorly impaired in man…
the opposite of smiles
PWaldman WaPo tonight
This is a never-ending obsession with Democrats. How can we get conservatives to like us more? Is there some special strategy we can deploy, or argument we can make, that will open their hearts and min…
Actual GOP CW call and only early December!
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/arizona-republican-party-calls-on-supporters-to-fight-to-the-death-for-trump-live-for-nothing-or-die-for-something/
She will be confirmed no matter what happens in Georgia, which some are optimistic about (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/in-georgia-debate-loeffler-refuses-to-acknowledge-trump-lost-election/ar-BB1bGzrs)
The rest of any blunting of the las…
My bad, my bad, shoulda checked, the statement from yogibearbull is not true. Shoulda known.
So much for his cred.
https://www.morningstar.com/funds/xnas/fxaix/performance
interactive sublink
Compare with VOO as ETF. You do have to choose a l…
Oh, I think M* is honestly data-driven but in general I meant from everyone, Midwestern luv luv luv, enough with these interviews w Tillinghast-Danoff-Romick, let's hear more from the Wisconsin PHC types. Like the long luv affair w GLRBX, near my ho…
\\\ how we could have dealt with Covid any better. Most of the strategies tried throughout the world ended up failing sans New Zealand (for the most part) clearly most of things we tried in the USA failed. Mother nature will usually have her way…
Marx was much too smart and subtle for that, but it is widely misunderstood, in any number of ways, yes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_of_outcome
@Crash
>> By definition, capitalism is inequitable. There are winners and there are losers. Because the playing field isn't level. Thus the need for regulations. [etc.] ...
Huh? A lot of thoughts uselessly jumbled up here. Regulations have…
EStud would know more, but I always inferred a general Midwestern love of Harris et alia, and more specifically a retro honoring (with lots of inertia) of Wisconsin financial grads (including Mairs & Powers, and some others), by way of Indiana a…
From 13 mos ago, details.
>> Boeing shortchanged its customers by compromising safety, by hiding information, by marketing the MAX as something it was not.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/18/the-case-against-boeing
Some of these …
>> Covid, and, more accurately stated, the overblown and ineffective response ...
>> ... the cure cannot be worse than the disease. That clearly has been the case with Covid.
Say, since you are articulate and appear to give things th…
>> What sacrifices do we need to make to save that half a degree?
You write as though you keep up, but it is clear you do not, not really. There is a lot of work out there, hardcore practical effective proposals, a lot of them by your mocke…
@wxman123
I do not and cannot infer anything about or from your name, but I can see from your laughable frets and snark about teen gas siphoning and Kerry's properties --- not to mention the single most boggling thing I've read on this site, 'Over …
@wxman123
\\\ yet there is not a shred of proof that any of these dooms day predictions are going to come to pass or that anything we can (reasonably) do will prevent them. California has been through horrific droughts over the years...yet this yea…
+1 and another +1
I am expecting, before I die, hopefully 10-20y from now, that the forests and woods and such plains as there are of NE, where some of us live, many of us in fact, from Maine down to WDC and Virginia, will start to burn annually.
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