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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.
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…
I consider my lifetime luck --- middle-class American boomer with astoundingly rising US markets, growing from $10k to $5M-$20M depending on percentage of bond holdings --- well above average. I guess I tilted it in my favor by participating and als…
we are so doomed in this
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/sinclair-broadcasting-group-local-news-stations-attack-critics-of-family-separation-boris-epshteyn.html
Oh, the smarties are on it:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/trump-traded-family-separation-for-illegal-indefinite-detention-and-fixed-nothing.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/family-separation-debate-shows-trump-worries-mos…
The "president" 's new decision is not legal, really, lots of writing about this, accomplishes little, and the future for these families is worse than unclear. I won't post NYT and WaPo and Guardian and the other dozen links. He caved, but his only …
I think imho if there were no racisms nor guidelines, the committee just select candidates based on GPA mcat scores gre sat scores backgroundd... Harvard yale or many medical schools/most health care programs/post grad programs will be filled w many…
ha, thanks; just try to plan ahead. Want finances to go easily. Have been to a lot of funerals recently, good friends for whom the end came rather suddenly. I imagine this is not news to you. Paying a pro to sort through boxes of files in the baseme…
@msf
>> These days, what useful services does one get for $1M; in other words, why did you leave enough to maintain that status?
It's a single retirement account (with two funds in it) and I did not want to break it up. I don't know what I …
Where is the blatant racism? Lots of competing interests, social, educational, and other. Whose interest is served by filling an open school 100% with 'worthy' Jewish kids? Or Asian kids? Or indeed Catholic kids?
@Sven, ML likewise pays for asset moves, although the bonus entails many months; payments may be slightly higher than Fido iirc (I just did it, while leaving enough to be Fido Priv Client except that means using an adviser, so far as I can tell, wtf…
What's jarring? Assuming this is what you meant:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/laura-bush-separating-children-from-their-parents-at-the-border-breaks-my-heart/2018/06/17/f2df517a-7287-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html
not the strong argu…
@Maurice,
Do see if you can find subtler coverage than some NYPost brief rehash.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/harvard-cant-have-it-all/2018/06/18/ec9f6522-730c-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/…
I don't believe, I know. Follow the data, read the (huge, venerable) studies, talk to your cardio.
Or not.
>> must add salt to help replenish electrolytes. I've been hypertensive for more than a decade and now my blood pressure is too low …
You're right it is pointless. As pointless as you guys ever admitting to any fatal flaw for any Government run program.
Good grief, what is wrong with you and your brain, to swing the broad brush? 'You guys'? Who here (or anywhere) ever said anyt…
