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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.
Paul Waldman WaPo may have the best short summary yet:
There are some things that were matters of dispute or insufficiently documented before but are no longer in question.
- Vladimir Putin very much wanted Trump to become president of the United…
please no false equivalency, let us stay on substance; this is important:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/19/what-attorney-general-barr-said-vs-what-mueller-report-said
OJ, in fact his conduct could hardly be more egregious; this is only one of a dozen such analyses:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/18/what-attorney-general-barr-buried-misrepresented-or-ignored-clearing-trump
OJ, rtf report itself, or at least please start with the dozen topline analyses in NYT, WaPo --- those two front pages now say it all --- Slate, Politico, Vox, DailyBeast, LATimes, Atlantic, New Yorker, etc ...
Watch Katyal. He was particularly pith…
nah, he's a suckup toad of the first water, and did the same thing in 1989
why he got hired in the first place
the report is as damning as can be without landing in prosecutive places; there are many smart analyses and summaries this evening, but …
This is wild patter. We're not talking about the same thing wrt 'misleading'. I am to feel like the retirees impugned by Romney, whose characterizations were misleading (as very many thought, including Romney himself). You're on about something else…
Such chastisement, for pointing out that MR was being misleading in impugning retirees as believing they're victims and moreover irresponsible about their own lives. Eventually he himself tried to walk it back:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/p…
@msf,
Did I say it was not true? Context is crucial, as always. Did you / do you think Mittens was pointing out the feature-not-bug angle of tax code? Here is the Politifact writeup, bf mine:
In his remarks, Romney used broad strokes to character…
I have a memory, dim, of FSPTX being closed on occasions in the 1980s, maybe the 1990s, when my father was urging it on me (I resisted, for some reason)
On a major major tear the last year; its start-of-year holdings included FANG, JUUL, SalesForce, Tesla, United HC, etc etc.
Rock on.
Not ownable by any of us, though. Fido and Price Blue Chip Growth would appear to be about the closest, of cours…
When turnover is so low, why not just mirror their book in your PA and skip the 1%+ ER...
if you have the nerve:
http://portfolios.morningstar.com/fund/holdings?t=AKRIX®ion=usa&culture=en-US
BWP,
Something strange here.
3y $10k growth (not price) for DSENX is $10k to $15,893, 4/9/16 to 4/8.
Moat reached $16,332. Same period, from $10k.
I cannot understand your graph or how you got it, but it is marvelous.
Ah, ah, okay, yours is…
@BenWP,
yeah, don't not post, please
... but when I graph $10k growth the last 3y for DSENX and MOAT I see only ~2.8% outperformance; how did you arrive at your ~83% figure??
Yeah, the last couple years many value-ish ETFs have outperformed (hardly clocked) DSE_X and CAPE; I have posted about this a couple of times as I have been seeking alternatives to CAPE, although not specifically mentioning MOAT.
Doing it for you, with the same conclusion (spread, anyway):
https://www.i-orp.com/bequest/index.html
(With nonretirement-account losses able to 'detax' any gains for years to come, I have been pondering recently, as I raise cashflow from both rol…
This is broader (Krugman)
Some progressive U.S. politicians now describe themselves as socialists, and a significant number of voters, including a majority of voters under 30, say they approve of socialism. But neither the politicians nor the voter…
roger
I could have said it meant zero commissions, lower margin, prompter phone pickup and email response (as at Fidelity) and so on, if I knew it to be so, and would've. Maybe it is something no one needs. Certainly my personal rep is not pushy in…
@msf,
No idea, but it's been around for several years, with me part of it.
The nice, not particularly useful (and not at all WF-like) assistant vice president person who regularly bothers me signs off her ML emails as Premium Elite Services Relati…
I was intrigued by the absence of Janus from the short best balanced list, and of Wasatch from the short best SC list, and must investigate that further. What was most striking to me, though we all know how conservative DS tends toward in this long …
@MikeM, thanks
One other lucky thing --- we are all just insanely lucky to live in these long bull times --- is that this company Pimco has made it possible to invest in bond vehicles which offer much cashlike safety combined with much equitylike p…
So evasive, and falling back on namecalling charge, bwaha.
Is it really impossible for you to say 'Ah, I see the point now, oops, my bad for posting something unrepresentative of the state of affairs'?
Evidently.
@MJG, you really present as a windy dimwit sometimes. You posted an article with the hed the 3 Best Free Retirement Calculators and subheds Final Three and Conclusion. It is six years old and out of date and likely superseded and updated and the met…
[ ] Limiting the number of messages, links that have nothing to do with funds or investing, especially those that have a political agenda
Dude, once again, just give it up, don't read, skip, exhale, and pretend it's like this:
https://crops.extensi…
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman
today has a cite to interesting Bloomberg piece on US bond rate decline, supported by 22yo Shleifer-Vishny research on capital reduction effect; suggests caution about yield curve inversion interpretations; but does …
