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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.
@LB
>> How successful have such tax deferred plans been at their original intention of providing ordinary Americans with a secure retirement?
Good grief, hugely successful is the answer, for me and for a great many people I know, also my par…
@BW,
>> What if the retired person is still not ready after that five year window?
The usual response is Well, tough.
As for 401k / trad ira caps, they already are hard, and too low, though not quite as you propose. Capping balances would…
I was just going to ask LB how he thinks tax-deferred savings should be handled, and the 5y window sounds like a good idea.
I wonder if there is a progressive case to be made for handling Roths differently, as there is and has been for the new SaL…
How exactly does this time become systemic? (serious question) It looks bad on paper and may be so for companies, but how does it spread or result in panics and overreactions?
onward, christian soldiers!
we have a license plate out here based on that last clause
I wonder why it has always been subsequently changed in the singing
Well, most of them I daresay do not include
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal";
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is ma…
I know it was chosen by him and used for its service. The MJG-posted youtube video was a preposterous if not offensive thing to show, thoughtless, is what I was pointing out.
I have nothing to apologize for in any of this; nothing I posted was off…
As the recent bitcoin quip explained, 'imagine if keeping your car idling 24/7 produced solved sudokus you could trade for heroin'.
Detailed and precise ledger tracking, otoh, is the real deal, yes.
While dramatically (Let the Hero ... crush the serpent with his heel,) celebrating the defeat of traitors is always a fine idea in these times, McCain's greatgrandfather was a Mississippi plantation owner, so not a fit salute perhaps.
yes, what I was reading variously was nontrauma csf, and yes erosion or other forces
good outcomes withal, and hope this particular patch story turns out awesome
yeah, was just reading up on csf leakage and it looks like much or most of the time the outcomes are real good and the approaches known
hope that's the case here of course
>> All gov't workers are severely over-compensated already.
omg, what a stupid thing to write. Do you know a lot of public sector employees? Seriously? How ignorant.
Clearly. Trying to imagine why you would charge such a thing. Guess you have not studied in detail its changing fortunes the last few years. 5.5y ago DS mentioned its defensive stance to an extent (http://www.mutualfundobserver.com/2013/03/seafarer-…
this is silly
they (M*) are a service firm and publish a huge number of service pieces
much of online journalism is service pieces, so much so that we do not even call it journalism anymore
when such are full of examples and specifics and strateg…
https://www.morningstar.com/content/morningstarcom/en_us/model-portfolios.html
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-benz-b83b523/
dir of personal finance at M*, for some years
hed and teaser as posted
continues (free)
... Yet while Sundheim, 41, is now a big name in the hedge fund world, he might not have broken in without an obscure website called Value Investors Club. Writing anonymously on the site in 2002, Sundheim…
Here's a different view of valuations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/business/sp-record-high-stock-market-activity.html
This graph sure ain't like
http://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe/
