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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.
>> my wife and I must spend $900 each out-of-pocket before doctors' visits, PT, etc. are covered.
can you explain this a bit? do you have a supp or advantage?
we see (tufts, mass.) the occasional cost reduction and benefit improvement, no…
@Ted,
Depending on medication. Meaning ExpressScripts does not have some 'uniform' pricing across the meds board; no one does (of course).
The gov calculator for total drug costs, and other calculations, is very handy and easy to use, and I turn …
I forget if you have a Merrill account, but if so have you tried using their MyFinancialPicture?
bulletproof in my experience.
I guess you woulda mentioned if you had or could.
For god knows what reasons, Fidelity's Accounts & Trade, Portfolio is regularly more accurate and up to date than FullView, which is unusably sketchy and has been so for years. (And Fidelity knows this.)
But even Portfolio is kinda random and o…
>> Studies have shown that increasing the minimum wage does not have a negative effect on small business
and aside from that
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/magazine/minimum-wage-saving-lives.html
For more, drill waaaaay down…
Not clear how it could ever happen, much less what it would mean (and even less why it would be 'the best thing that could happen'):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_movement_in_Puerto_Rico
Some history, courtesy Edward Luce, Financial Times:
In 1832, the British aristocracy saved itself by agreeing to loosen its grip on power. … The [passed] bill widened Britain’s electorate and diluted the political stranglehold of its landed elites…
Ah, so you meant this, or you didn't ('even though the people living within it are hard working'):
>> Unlike that island, Albertans wouldn't be waiting for the Government to take care of them.
Got it.
@Skeet,
This dishonest article ignores McConnell (whom the author used to work for) and GOP blocking the bipartisan rebuke the situation warranted.
Suggest you also actually read the report, to see what it says.
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??
