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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.
>> Is it condescending, or passive-aggressive ....
Why not both?
In a respectful vein, my grandpa Sherwood often said that the 'best' and proudest part of his 97y life, including family and social service as a missionary, was being a Mari…
>> his promises to revive rural America and deregulate industry
>> will make good on the promise that he’s a master negotiator. Perhaps he’ll bargain his way out this mess.
Right. You knew he was a snake when you took him in.
Or sho…
What a welcoming nation --- alongside the Jewish immigrant, the author of America was gay. @MJG, not sure your attempt to bait via saluting is gonna work today.
Good ol' Rockwell
https://scontent.fbos1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/36641707_1021150228…
It is somehow so American to look backward and fantasize in excelsis about purity of motive, courage, singlemindedness, and all similar.
No wonder so much of the rest of the world thinks we are still adolescents, and, now with the new guy, destine…
Unless you are a BoA customer with like $302 in checking and $11 in savings, the kind banks love to gouge, you sure as hell should not be paying a cent to xfer moneys. Sez me.
You yourself should have or be able to get zelle for free, no charge, no…
wtf are you talking about? That hardworking buckeye's wealth is the opposite of obscene, and of course in the grand plutocratic scheme is a mere large drop.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/luisakroll/2016/12/12/americas-richest-entrepreneurs-under-40…
This is thorough and helpful, so I owe you a Charlie card, at least.
I bet I have missed the 75% bonus in my delving, as we are (I think) Platinum Honors / Preferred blah blah, or so I believe; they do not make it easy for the indolent.
I like AC…
@msf
>> the highest flat rate with no fee I know of BofA's (another TBTF) travel card coupled with $100K combined Merrill Edge/Merrill Lynch/BofA balances, giving 2.625%. And with that same balance, BofA's Cash Rewards card pays 5.25% on gas …
Yeah, you have written about certain BoA cards, which I have but almost never use. If one is willing to be flexible and purchase-alert, one can do pretty well --- in addition to Fido 2% for everything, I use Amex Blue for supermarkets @ 3% and Citi …
Ted, have you calculated how the tariffs are going to affect your farm?
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2018/06/15/china-tariffs-soybeans-could-cost-iowa-farmers-up-624-million/705121002/
@BW, balanced budget is a terrible terrible idea quite aside from social policy, and I'm surprised you are not better-read in this area.
But more seriously, are you claiming you are overtaxed or unfairly taxed? (serious question, not trolling you)…
@BW, shoot, and here I thought you were a serious person. Jeez, way to disappoint. If by 'my candidate' you meant BO (and you don't know that), he won the individual vote by like 9M and 5M. 'Majoritarian insanity' is a great phrase and I shall use g…
>> obviously America wasn't happy with the direction it was going.
Huh? The majority of voters --- by almost 3M --- were happy enough with it. Where you been at, man?
Here's the actual history and math. Note the last sentence.
http://nyma…
Still can't tell your granularity ... so of the 19% in mfunds, what percentage is in PONCX? 5% of the MS one is cash, but perhaps that can be ignored.
If PONCX is around a third of your mfunds, let us say, then including the MS cash you appear to …
Come on, people, just check it out, it's easy:
https://www.fidelity.com/about-fidelity/individual-investing/fidelity-couples-study
See About the Study
also
https://www.fidelity.com/bin-public/060_www_fidelity_com/documents/couples-retirement-fa…
Huh? no offense and no hurt feelings; how did you get to that? I asked you what was wrong with his argument and you have responded, partly. I hold no brief for NF at all; this seemed a departure. I would be interested in how your 'rational decent' p…
@LB, I know; where did I say or imply otherwise? wtf, man, don't become like everyone else online. Read the article and respond substantively if you care to. I am not debating the worth or virtue or sense or solidity of other NF work.
Empathy is lofty (by definition, I guess); we just need simple decency, or the other qualities that are the opposite of plain cruelty, and the policies and mechanisms are in place already, or were, I believe. I do get the point here:
https://www.bo…
I am sure T is safe, but I recently saw in one of my Fido accounts a deposit of $87 or something, which it turned out upon examination was the final payout of a Lehman $10k bond I had bought maybe 15y (?) ago for my wife --- for safety to balance he…
Almost all economists, including social-progressive ones, concur in the take that significantly increased investment in sophisticated voke ed and community colleges is a good thing and will help in all sorts of ways down the road. This even though a…
Caplan is a libertarian figure of mirth to serious economists and educators, but this is a moderately sympathetic engagement:
https://www.vox.com/conversations/2018/2/16/16870408/public-education-libertarianism-democracy-bryan-caplan
Surely there is a longterm etf play, or some sort of futures contract investment, involving immigrant system pay-in but no withdrawal at the end of lifetime employment.
>> Since when has it become a crime to knock on America's door and ask for political asylum? . . . or to want to come here and live.
since a long time; depends on the decade
don't know what happened when we turned back refugee ships but some…
