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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.
another recent essay that might be of interest to the bootstraps advocates (and who isn't, ultimately?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/opinion/black-lives-matter-corporations.html
of course everyone knows the LBJ quote, right?
understanding systemic racism is often subtle, at least for me
one recent example is using property taxes to fund public education
think about that, for several minutes
yeah, OJ, the bootstraps arg is v v old and v v persuasive, and of course there is truth in it, as any schoolteacher knows, and as conservatives of color invariably trot out
it takes some undefensive sophistication to see that lazy or incompetent …
You do know that no one but the truly stupid claims it is ALL and ONLY about skin color. Everyone knows family and culture and therefore attitude play very large parts. You are splitting them from color, which is not how life and the real world work…
Also, a chart comparison between HELOC and Reverse Mortgages:
https://screencast.com/t/HeeBfE0glggj
This table is inaccurate in at least one respect in my long heloc experience:
Under Traditional Bank Heloc it says "Becomes balloon after 10 year …
@bee,
I am a longtime user of helocs and my current one is ~$300k @2.4% fixed, so of course I am considering taking 4/5 of it and sticking it into VONG :)
Anyway, I write to point out that, recessions and calls aside, helocs have expiration date…
see my post here (which has no comments) for more granularity
https://www.mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/discussion/56372/you-are-crazy-to-invest-in-bonds#latest
@FD1k,
Of course there is much to what you say, wisdom and otherwise; no one can dispute that. The question is what is the right thing to do for, to help, all of those very very many who are not as good as you? What color is your skin?
It is so sad to see a candidate like Biden with health issues. I wouldn't let him manage a small business with 10 employees. Why his family and friends don't tell him the truth?
And then there is Trump, regardless of what you think he will be el…
Again, again, why post this drivel?
This MIchael Lee guy does not know historical correlations of taxation and returns.
>> As controversial as President Trump is, market pros would contend that these types of moves upward in equities wouldn…
perhaps of interest; taken, though not verbatim, from email and docs making the rounds at GS
Subject: Some assorted market stats and anecdotes about what has happened in the last months
It has been a few months of records. They say a lot about the…
Twit feed like out of the horse's mouth? Mark, please enlighten me with all of Biden's and more recent Democratic accomplishments.
Among the latter is impeaching this president, is that the kind of thing you mean?
This is of more moment than smear…
the point you think you are making is not worth acknowledging, man
quite aside from the utter sketchiness of your self-dx, as Mark, w serious and extensive experience, points out; indeed, one w 'breathing issues' should mask up from the second the…
no, you know that's not the case
you have a good reason, if it is truly impairing; no one disputes that, if it is truly impairing
but 'not required for a reason' is not how it works, and you know it
as if cv cares about regs
masking is a social act, protecting not chiefly oneself as much as others, over time
hate away, but masking is a gesture toward the common good
you should be glad for the regs, and good for those arrests
somebody has …
And Biden and his adherents are so great, Give me a break- they both are fatally flawed
har, this takes comedy bronze, at least for tonight
One is fatal to the nation, that much is true.
+1
yeah, so troubling to read anyone still saying the laughable and utterly false 'drain the swamp'
calls into question judgment in all matters
'not this time' for biden? as if there is going to be another??
meanwhile, tweet of the weekend, e…
Mutual funds may invest directly in private offerings. One of the only startups I worked at that successfully went public (I made somewhere in the low 4 figures on that, whoopee) was approached by a fund firm before its IPO. Not being one of the…
I'm thinking that the chart analyst that you are thinking of in the above post is Carley Garner. I don't usually watch the whole show but I did catch the part during yesterdays chart presentation.
I have linked below the bio on Ms. Garner.
https:…
sorry, thought it would open per the bing sequence above
https://www.ft.com/content/2a6ec6aa-492e-4e7d-85f8-83789a2bc481
Top US pension fund aims to juice returns via $80bn leverage plan
Calpers hopes bold move will boost efforts to achieve its…
Well, understand that it's a continuum, like some other antiviral vaccines.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/14/sinovac-early-data-covid19-vaccine-generated-immune-responses/
https://www.webmd.com/lung/covid-19-vaccine#1
Some of the vaccines tha…
someone pointed out, maybe it was here, that vegas is by definition full of people with extremely sketchy (to put it nicely) notions about risk and gambling
