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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.
What everyone else says. I use ML and Fidelity, and the former is handy if you have checking/savings and mortgages at BoA, but there seems no longer any compelling reason to use them otherwise, to the contrary. And everyone likes Schwab so much that…
@johnN
>> According to the left media : 70-80% will get it and die because they dont have universal insurance coverage. Trump did create and cause the virus /usa to be worsen. Mass casualties for sure and we should bunker up/head for isolatio…
this is most interesting; I know the doc
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/treatment-covid-19-coronavirus-re-purposing-common-castro-m-d-/?trackingId=0PK/T/AKSmiOMowrX+WOuA==
Yeah, this aligns with the views of docs at the Harvard Health newsletter, one of whom recently wrote that while zinc lozenges may well shorten the length of cold symptoms by a day or so, he himself found it hardly worth it, given how crummy it make…
@Gundlar,
Why seek ye something better?
Just graphed everybody since the 23rd of Feb, obvs not counting today, and GLRBX looks good too, like ValueLine and PRWCX --- marginally better than the others. Longterm is v different for it, naturally. Y…
>> ... make only [4%-]4.5% including inflation ... average annually to sustain our standard of living. But I still want to make 6% with the lowest volatility (SD < 3) and never lose more than 3% from any last top.
Wow.
I am sure many of…
Biden and Clinton for vp 2020
Somehow I assume you are being sarcastic, but if not, to God's ear.
Fwiw, I have a sib who heads an academic global econ / trade program in WDC and has served in two State depts (Carter and Clinton) in that capacity, a…
not a big bernie fan, but this sure makes my moral compass jiggle bad
https://www.axios.com/ceo-salaries-growing-unprecedented-pace-8b0562ff-717a-4c81-8dc7-c0a88568ff48.html
plus we will have to let the market work its magic, again
Alex Azar, Donald Trump's health secretary, has told politicians he cannot guarantee that a coronavirus vaccine will be affordable to everyone once it has been developed.
Giving evidence to …
and of course they work only against bacterial pneumonia, nothing to do w viruses
vaccine will be as expedited as possible, so perhaps a matter of (many) months
mortality thus far seems mostly dependent on response of own immune system, whose overreaction appears to be what does the killing, chiefly, lung lesions and so on.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/19/how-coronavirus-kills/
pneumonia…
@Gary1952
>> What happened to patriotism and loyalty?
Huh?
>> The Nixon era GOP would have recognized this and put country first.
This sounds like you're high, and/or weren't paying attention then.
Love watching the Lib media. 24/7 of madness, anger and hysteria
yes, owing us progtards is a productive, socially healthy, constructive way to live one's adult life, and love is such a fine term for it
loyalty is stronger than ever, narrowed; other stuff is long gone, nothing matters anymore to so many;
we will see the extent of thug sliming's power over the next half-year
does not feel yet like 1968 to me only because no public murders
these statements oppose or cancel each other, imo
>> Trump will win no matter who is the Dem selection.
>> HC(health care) in the US is outrageous and there is no solution.