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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.
@OS,
not quite how it works ('tax on consumer goods')
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/07/opinion/how-to-lose-a-trade-war.html
and there is lots more of this sort of analysis.
But yes, if the taxcuts actually helped your situation (did they? how…
@OS,
Trade imbalance is not what you seem to think it is, not even close.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/us/politics/trade-deficit-tariffs-economists-trump.html
And other than properly adjusting some business rates, there is nothing to be t…
whatever the amount, invest it when you got it, or as you get it (received over time does not really mean the same thing as intentional DCA, by choice; just the way it works out)
This is a fine summary of the state of play, and point 4 is worth studying in particular:
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/mitch-mcconnell-medicare-social-security-bloomberg-news-entitlements-deficit.html
Krug today on this:
… on Trump and the Fed. The thing here is to keep two concepts separate. You can believe that the Fed is raising rates too quickly, as I do, and also believe that weighing in the way Trump has is very, very bad. Now, the Fed isn…
But with massive skills and resources for massive, massive grifting:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html
yeah, confusion over MC Supp vs Advantage.
My wife has had the $0-premium Tufts MC Advantage plan for a few years, since she's a low-utilization customer. But this year she had a knee replacement and some other things, lots of PT, specialist OVs, …
goes to grad school, or to others
the thing to keep in mind is to invest the money as aggressively as the plan will allow, since we are talking about well over a decade hence for need
Bear Martin Feldstein has another recession is a-comin' in the WSJ yesterday, I think, this time, or again, based on rising interest rates, I believe.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/another-recession-is-looming-1538088367
login, hard to get around
Most everyone who takes stats for dummies at some point hears the phrase 'discard the highest and the lowest data and then take the average'; there should be a glib version of that for discarding only the highest tail. I guess it would just be calle…
yes, always and only look for the delta b/w initial client invested amount and client current total value
some brokerages really have this confusingly, I think
Gold writes that the 'tables below tell the story'. but in fact it is ONLY for the 10y period where RSP outperforms. That first year appears to have counted for a whole lot, in other words.
If you compare RSP with SP500 for 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1y, it …
Yeah; I was (am always) looking for alternatives to CAPE, which outdoes them all but is unavailable at one of my brokerages. All similar more or less but real (non-huge) differences in performance.
Wait, when I have mused recently on XRLV, and MMTM and QUAL (I think, having found them better performers than NOBL and SCHD), did you, Ted, not vehemently say to just stick w SP500?
