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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.
Fiat, bogus "sadistics" used as the measure by which the amount of the COLA gets decided. Imaginary reality on the part of the gummint. "Lies, damned lies, and statistics."
You don't know what you're talking about, and the evidentiary background for…
@msf Appreciate the detailed explanation. All of the gory details and granular ins-and-outs and contingencies and add-ons and options, etc. only show what a broken non-system we have. Thanks for the corrections, too. Yes, Single-Payer, gummint-oper…
The 'loveliest smile' phrase appears in a poem by WC's brother John H Bryant:
https://www.comfortspringstation.com/2021/09/29/autumn-years-loveliest-smile-printable/
Frost said he wrote it to tease an overthinking indecisive friend ....
And:
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/11/the-most-misread-poem-in-america/
Maybe you are too young for this saying:
Hypocrisy
The idiom “the pot calling the kettle black” is used to point out hypocrisy12. It means that someone is criticizing another person for a fault they have even though the criticizer is also guilty o…
FD said: This is no different than what some posters do on investment sites.
They regurgitate essentially the same information (with minor intermediate changes) ad nauseam.
Wow. If that isn't the pot calling the kettle black, I don't know what is.
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@davidrmoran: does “ffs” contain a vulgarity?
I understand the “lede” of a paragraph, but what is a “lede article?” Is the reference to Snowball’s article?
yes to all
@FD1000
reading comp, man, reading comp (study my hed)
2022 is 2y ago
As for:
>> Since 1980, no other president except Trump has achieved above 10% real wage growth.
cite?
Are you thinking fig 3 of this supports your assertion?
https:/…
I have done more than that and never lost more than 1% from any last top since retiring in 2018.
The "secrets" are 1) Mostly owning 2-3 bond funds at a huge % 2) switching bond fund = good timing 3) avoiding market losses.
There's no easy way to …
sold several positions of JQUA at ML, tired of not being to able to auto-reinvest there
on next significant dip will buy TCAF in lieu
ditto selling rest of recent VONG dip buy at Fido
ML also are strange about certain ETFs, as I have written before. You cannot buy (I believe, have not checked recently) CCOR, QLTY [!], or CAPE. You cannot reinvest divs/cg w JQUA. Or some others. There are other queer restrictions, none of which ex…
@Baseball_Fan
>> Maybe just a reminder that it's all one big manipulated casino....and don't get too greedy...cash is king at times like this... balance in life and in your portfolio
>> Don't listen to that bullshit you're young you hav…
You don’t know what feckless means
Republicans are irresponsible in excelsis but extremely extremely effective (opposite of feckless)
Democrats are not pretending and never have been
Jeeezus, man
OJ, I was responding to this thread
Crash said:
gotta bring down that astronomical debt. For so many reasons.
You replied:
Last time that I looked there was neither a major candidate for president nor a major political party saying anything of t…
Hope this is accessible (doubt it)
https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/render?campaign_id=116&emc=edit_pk_20240806&instance_id=130920&isViewInBrowser=true&nl=paul-krugman&paid_regi=1&…
