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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.
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
"I am having trouble understanding how a member of the bar could state unequivocally that this order is constitutional," the judge told a U.S. Justice Department lawyer defending Trump's [birthright] order. "It just boggles my mind."
Krugman, what a joke. He is a politically opinionated economist.
(https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/krugman-trump-global-recession-2016-231055)
Christ, is this really all you got? Nothin substantive. So weak. Remind me to stop defending your …
NYTimes.com
Here ya go, hopefully
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/opinion/trump-tariffs-trade.html?unlocked_article_code=1.q04.kVWH.dRwJR9xMJ_RO&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The whole thing is a high-level tit-…
David, NYT articles are behind paywall for me. If you are able to, pl include / share your short summary.
I’ll try and get a gift share. Meanwhile, if you can afford to invest, get a damn subscription to the nytimes. It’s 2025 and the country is …
tariffs amount to a tax on domestic consumption and a subsidy to domestic production.
And they don't balance out. Consumers lose more than domestic producers and the government (tariff revenue) gain. Economists call this deadweight loss.
Here's…
OJ,
I can hardly tell you how heartening to have a 'colleague' who reads all of these publications.
I don't know what to make of the Guardian interviews. Are there actual (effective, doable) recommendations in there? Gaza?? Seriously? Don't gest…
:)
me too
have (barely) enough in retirement (expensive state and town), not all that many years left (mid-70s), concur in all the takes re ultrahigh P/Es, etc.
my greed needs to be strongly managed, though
I did some dip-buying recently (JQUA, TCAF, SPHQ) and now that I have made a few thou from them I may bail out of everything tomorrow or Fri, meaning that the only equity I will hold will be the accursed CCOR.
I am not expecting 800-pt days after M…
@BenWP,
Yeah, they yank you off fentanyl as soon as they can, alas, as it was bliss --- completely cloaking the system and thwarting/relaxing the shakes and chills and rotating pain from the big cortisol and adrenaline dump of getting hit and frac…
I understand it's about minimizing Insurance Cost $/Yr but
What about Umbrella Insurance on top of Auto Liability coverage ?
If due to Old age or any unknown reason you or spouse hit someone else? …
@Observant1,
I'm still waiting for you to prove my hindsight; after all, it's not the first time you claimed it.
I never claimed to be the smartest in the room or that I made the most.
BTW, I also don't attack posters personally; I just use analysis…
Both the NYTimes and WaPo today have leadoff articles about how well the US stock market is going to do in '25.
Unbelievable content. Who knows if it will prove contrarian?
Wow, ur so damn dumb & oblivious to your own racist fascist comments...you truly r an inbred, buck tooth cracker...typical of the unhinged morons of the left, you spew racist hateful comments & then accuse others of doing exactly what you ar…
This is great!
About time we had a hatemonger (and Examiner reader) here:
// The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies FAIR as a hate group with ties to white supremacist groups.
// FAIR was founded in 1979 by Michigan surgeon and white nationa…
Well whatever the cost, it's surely WELL WORTH IT!! You all seem to only be considering the $9 billion in lost revenue & that impact...well try dealing with the $182 billion spent in 2023 alone on illegal immigration...so yeah, get these crimina…
the local public LENDING library RENTS DVDs for a $2.00 fee. I won't pay it on principle.
wtf is the principle
Sorry, David. I wasn't listening. Did you mean something like this?
I refused to PAY for entry back in Springfield into a tax-suppor…
Let us hope!
but Brooks for many years has been the prizewinning chump of ultra-equivocal quasi-prog / wannabe-con handwringing nambypambies
and just two days ago admitted an astounding essay discovering, or claiming to discover, numinosity
Qu…
