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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.
moving into the post-fact era for healthcare policy too:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/28/trump-facts-policy-shop-administration-research-714353
All good questions. I know for myself what are the levels of egregiousness, or I think and say I do, but they would not be others', perhaps. I left Parnassus over WFC, and Herro (Oakmark) as well, when he denounced global warming a year or two ago. …
I was wondering if you and lB read those people. And I was thinking this guy seems different. As a career writer and editor and talker I have great, often misplaced faith in the power of careful informed wording. ('Communication is a miracle', a wis…
Do you read MGerson, JRubin, MBoot, DFrum, DBrooks, RDouthat, BStephens et alia also? There are so many thoughtful smarties out there, and I am not naming deep reactionary conservatives, and some of these call themselves former conservatives. It is …
@larryB,
tnx; I don't disagree, but this guy has been thoughtful and substantive before, and can read, and can write, and all that good stuff. I shoulda known maybe when the phrase 'Clinton foundation' appeared! Of all the worthy entities in the wo…
@little5bee,
Wow, you have now gone completely off the rails, so if you're somehow incapable of engaging substantively or even owning your erroneous whattabout cheapshots, fine, just don't post it. Benghazi, Whitewater indeed. smh
Content, man, content --- try and respond substantively. No one is dissing you. No one is in charge. Surely not I. Glad you changed your mind. But if you can't take the responses and insistence on substantiation, don't go posting your cheapshots, k?…
Yeah, right --- well, if you really did, you would know there is nothing there, investigated to death, and beyond, and nothing there. Maybe you do actually know that but think you can troll people. Doesn't seem like you otherwise, though. But sure, …
I bet you actually don't know any of the facts about Whitewater, Clinton foundation, Benghazi, etc. Such a smart-sounding guy otherwise, sometimes. And good on you for raising a tough and resourceful child.
rx are six months over lifetime, if I am reading this correctly:
https://mychristiancare.org/medi-share/what-is-medishare/how-medi-share-works/faqs/
so the christian w diabetes has a tough row to hoe, looks like. (maybe I am missing something.)
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Come on David,,, Richard Cohen(WaPo) July 23. You were quoting him,,,,, right?
https://mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/discussion/42465/a-second-gentle-reminder#latest
Richard Cohen in WaPo yesterday conveyed my broad half-century-culture-wars sentiment pithily:
... something beyond economics — and certainly not foreign policy — motivates Trump’s people. ... it’s a low-boil rage against a vague and threatening li…
He's actually not a notably conservative writer, economics or otherwise, although he has worked for some such publications. He also has no formal training in economics.
Also today Krugman pointed out that Samuelson here wrongly concludes that Amer…
and just to give further flavor of how much stupider, and fuller of straw, it gets:
"Though the 4% rule has its flaws, it is still a reasonable starting point for retirement planning. So rather than regard it as unassailable truth, ..."
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Sigh. The glue is resentment and rage against change and perceived loss, less econ than status, though it's risky to generalize. Many are the inputs. Skin color and land of origin are two of them, sure. But only two. Everyone has left out women's li…
>> don't bet that any Trumpy MAGA types today would identify with the Woodstock crowd
Huh? Yuh, that's the whole point.
MAGA types today, spirit and values and all else, derive directly from the worst of the Silent Majority. I emphasize wor…
You're missing the point entirely, but there's no reason to discuss further, is there.
>> The war on the Woodstock generation was just a blip in history.and that war was lost
If only. Nonsense to both assertions. But if you don't see the co…
@lB, you don't have to trot out your credentials to me or tell me to look anything up. I was fully there too, believe me. We disagree, deeply. You are certainly free not to see it as a long continuum of red meat and reaction then to red meat and rea…
Values and attitudes origins. I would suggest your view of that time is narrow and perhaps influenced by media stereotyping (Easy Rider is, simpleminded, feelgood).
Woodstock embodied the opposite of all this stuff today, which had its wider origins then, Silent Majority (later the Moral Majority), age divisions, Agnew and Buchanan, culture wars, all that. It is interesting to watch the movie today even skippin…
https://www.equities.com/news/what-happens-to-your-annuity-if-your-insurance-company-goes-under
I think the risk of annuity failure is a bit overblown. Not that I own or have owned any. Most of us have written guarantees from insurance companies fo…
I do not know the guy in any way other than many, but pinched here means strained, stressed, tense, with overlay of niggardly
As for your general question, re 'I have no doubt that we've always had, in our local and national communities, a wealth o…
