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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.
People don’t think there’s inflation. Look at what you paid for a house or a new addition to your home or a new car 10, 20, 30 years ago and tell me that.
No one but no one thinks there has been no inflation over those spans. I mean, duh. It is m…
come on, people
you are thinking of Ted Williams
Elvis was piloting
Trump needs to find that former agent and appoint him to some DoJ post
I need to starting reading zh right after the Onion
@WABAC
>> Some describe the phenomena as postmodern conservatism. Here, here, or here, for example.
That third one is pretty funny, but it is the work of an undergrad. He gives his JV-level lukewarm libertarianism away when complaining abou…
I would leave as is, with categories clearly marked and posters forced to choose the category beforehand and also being increasingly informative in their headings (imo).
something that may support @wxman123 ...
or may do the opposite
his take is crude and comically overstated, typical of those so easily swayed, who only watch TV (and whose numbers are legion)
>> The perception is that Chicago is a crime nig…
>> The perception is that Chicago is a crime nightmare; San Fran is becoming a cesspool and now even normally quiet spots like Portland are becoming like third-world countries.
I know! and the stock market is no different from Vegas! A total …
state of NYC now, anecdotal
Yeah, Krugman's right, the media is probably making the whole thing up. I bet he didn't stroll into parts of Brooklyn or the Bronx where people are also imagining getting shot in and around their homes. https://gothami…
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-minnesota-could-be-the-next-midwestern-state-to-go-red/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Maybe sitting home nov3rd...both candidates are bad
Both sides hired >1200 lawyers to deal with aftermath elections si…
I am thinking, and maybe it is fantasy wishing, that the breadth and consequence of the worsening economic recession will slowly sink in, and then less slowly. That's all. It has happened before, to some extent. Ongoing seriously curtailed spending,…
state of NYC now, anecdotal
https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=116&emc=edit_pk_20200901&instance_id=21805&nl=paul-krugman&productCode=PK&regi_id=22268089&segme…
The bull "market" is extremely narrow. The equal weight S&P 500 index ETF (RSP) is still down on the year. What's leading the market higher is tech, especially large cap tech. ...
I have been tracking, and find appealing, EQAL. You?
But t…
I find those two pretty different, but if you shop price, you should try Old Smuggler, which is the gold standard for value --- a very good blend that is low in cereal taste and also in peat. Famous Grouse to my taste is more pleasing than Dewar's a…
not sure where to post this, which might be of interest (DS has probably already seen)
https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/healing-red-blue-divide
dumb hed, not about 'healing', but otherwise good sense
one thing about zinc, which I imagine some already know, is that while it in lozenge form has real efficacy for shortening colds (wrecks your taste, and is not a trade I enjoy making even w a nasty cold), in spray form (which may be outlawed by now)…
Highland / Speyside s-m fans might always want to check, when staring at pricy Macallans and Highland Parks and so on, the price of the adjacent Balvenies. Wonderful stuff and almost always a bargain comparatively. Not for the Islay crowd, of course…
If you don't know (seems unlikely), in addition to the old known peaty blends (JW Red, Teacher's, White Horse ...), some of the good sweet blends now have a 'black' version (meaning peaty). So while not Laphroaig, you might try a bottle of Famous Gr…
Oh, and to be clear...having been in NYC dozens of times during both the Rudy and de Blasio eras I can say without a doubt there is a palpable difference to say the least. Rudy may be a bit of a kook but on the substance he was mostly spot on. If …
>> not counterbalanced on MSNBC by an equally gifted spokesman for the conservative side
@hank
- Uh-huh. Who could that possibly be? Gerson? Rubin? Frum? Of course not, they are all blisteringly anti-GOP now (understandably, like actually al…
recent news:
there are two retrospective (= not scientifically so strong, ... but it's a plague) studies the last couple days which look promising, so perhaps new attention will be turned toward hcq in combos
see todaro initial post for this thre…
David,
Are you advocating MMT? I don’t think the country should have a balanced budget but if interest rates rise, servicing the debt will take a bigger and bigger slice of the pie. I know you’ll say we are paying ourselves - but that doesn’t inclu…
Yeah, so ... like many I am thinking when (no longer if) to get back in,
and thinking even more sadly that the DJ drop to 24k or even 26k simply is not going to happen
Therefore is the fact of the runup drivers being the mega top 6 an argument fo…
[Snopes]
... the sense of Pelosi’s remarks was that the benefits (in her view) of the bill — rather than the contents of the bill — would be fully revealed to the public only after the legislation was passed and implemented.
So here is what she act…
no piper to pay, not how it works
otherwise not arguing,
will listen, every day of being so much in cash it goes up, way up, SP500 heading toward 3500 ...
agony, but I have done this agony before, and worse agony w plunges
>> a secret love that dare not speak its name for “hard leftists” while pretending to hate them
not that there's anything etc etc
I love being secretly loved, even, or especially, by rightwingnuts
