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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.
I myself completely concur in MJG's
>> Frequent looking encourages frequent action
You gotta be really disciplined to sit tight when things are going against your hopes.
Nah, no need; they're mistaken as a result of timidity, which is all too common in business editorial work. They can discover the cancer.gov "style". Or not.
Laetrile was widely lowercase-generic before this nonsense
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin…
The editor in me needs to point out that not only is laetrile dangerous (toxic) bullshit but also it is not a trademark of any sort.
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/patient/laetrile-pdq#section/all
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am…
not his wording, but my takeaway is something like possibly sufficient but not necessary
see his last sentence, no?
and my own add would have to do w sellability
@msf,
>> 1/3 of medicare enrollees have given up "original" Medicare and gone back to commercial insurance. It's called Medicare Advantage, and has very much the feel of commercial group plans.
hmm, what could have caused you to write this? …
It's also a seventh our size, so not easy to usefully compare many things in that respect.
I always find this humbling:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_(United_Nations)
I should have posted it elsewhere, I now agree; I had not sufficiently considered territoriality and encroachment or thread-hijacking. Apologies.
Interesting that you imagine your place here as more child than peer.
Informing you is antagonizing,…
Not sure that sort of thing would ever fly or would have flown, these days, since ACA was impossible to get buy-in on too after a pol with brown skin became its driver.
(Conservative views used to include a degree of mandated personal responsibili…
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.)
t…
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…
