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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.
>> 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…
good on you for the pension, yes
not only is nothing gained by waiting, but I think they send it to you automatically, if they can locate you
probably even if not
right, nothing needed other than being conservative; otoh, some would take that as …
it's getting good, funneling of dark foreign moneys, forget inflated real estate
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/opinion/republican-party-national-rifle-association-trump-russia.html
really good
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/andre…
@CB,
You have to take it before then, but alap does help enormously, and what I did.
Interesting you are so conservative.
I would say, rudely and unasked, that the odds of being able to do as you wish w SS would be highly influenced by your will…
It won't be quite like Kodak to the extent that it's not as based on dying tech.
I heard Immelt speak at one of my kids' grad school graduations (he'd gone there), and he was extremely sensible and impressive.
@CB,
That looks fascinatingly conservative. Are you in your 70s?
GE has got to be a steal for the nervy. (I was going to buy a bunch of BAC a week or three ago but quailed, and of course it has climbed nicely since then.)
@OJ, yes, Ted has post…
Assume everyone here knows LBJ's famous quote:
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
The last couple days I think PCI has crossed to the premium side, per M* graph, while PDI has an alltime high premium of 10% and PTY has remained near its alltime premium high >17%, which seems astounding. So while they are not comparable in many…
@Crash,
We just had a nonmassive, but large enough, angry wave, largely racially driven.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/opinion/voting-welfare-racism-republicans.html
Now what?
@Sven,
Where do you get ~2% for mm? not disputing, just curious.
Yes, DLEUX has been most disappointing. I will bail at first breakeven, I think.
I am reconsidering PRBLX.
>> been following PCI but it is trading at a premium
? Help me…
I am adding to DSEEX (small amounts) every chance I get, dip or no dip, as I compared newish etfs like VALQ, QARP, QLC, QDEF, others, with CAPE, which I do with every new LCV (or even tangentially related) idea, saw no advantage, and figured why not…
Come on, political discussion w/ citations here often has financial ramifications. I would suggest closing discussions only when emptied or unduly (solely) rude and personal.
rasmussen is crap
As for gallup, just go here and select compare, job disapproval / 2y / for both:
https://news.gallup.com/interactives/185273/r.aspx?g_source=WWWV7HP&g_medium=topic&g_campaign=tiles
Even for a basic human right I guess I have no problem with age basically, crudely, taken into account, with broad groupings, caps, and so on. Something like how it is now, very roughly.
Not exactly sure why I think this, but I'm hardly alone. I al…
@larryB, your son's response is the right one, and one that many people share tonight, I sense. I hope he is not literally on fire. How does feel about the bogus Bush runups to Mideast invasions? (not trolling, would like to know his thinking.) But …
@msf
>> Shouldn't the rates be age- (health-) independent?
I took the first part of this to be rhetorical, not serious; apologies if you are truly making some quasi-libertarian (?) free-market (or whatever it is) argument here.
No, my answ…
What would it take, Ted?
Here's a wrapup for anyone not seeing the traitorous behavior for what it is:
(JHohmann WaPo)
Col. James McDonough, the U.S. Army’s attache to Poland, highlighted “Russia’s Moral Hypocrisy” in a piece for Task and Purpose…
Age-variant health insurance pricing seems fairer to people than health-variant insurance pricing, since aging happens to all. But you know that, I bet, so not sure why your rhetorical question.
Of course there is so much squawk about taking care o…
