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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.
>> Squeal for someone else to help you when you are in trouble.
That's the spirit. You too, k ?
Are you part of the "faction in our country that sees public action for the public good, no matter how justified, as part of a conspiracy to dest…
but always, always FREEEEEEEEDOM
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/22/opinion/guns-nasty-brutish-trump.html
(PKrugman NYT)
"For whatever reason, there’s a faction in our country that sees public action for the public good, no matter how justified, a…
That's right: hunters, sport shooters, rural folks, all that sort of thing, has never been the problem. Praying that this is a tipping point against the kneejerk slippery slope argument, with the result being a return to sane controls on assault wea…
PIIE POLICY BRIEF 18-4
Why Has the Stock Market Risen So Much Since the US Presidential Election?
Olivier Blanchard (PIIE), Christopher G. Collins (Federal Reserve Board of Governors), Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar (Federal Reserve Board of Governors),…
David, surely you jest.
Seems unlike Ted, but that aside, when someone tells me to don hip wadders [sic], I take it to mean to prepare to stomp through crap, material that is itself crap, not making an argument about it. No?
Wonder who writes these things? A committee?. Nothing like the precision of this CYA stuff..
seeks to balance
potential ... appreciation
may also aid
the relative stability
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Note LSE Brian Klaas quotes midway through this nauseous judicial and legal litany:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/11/opinion/trump-republican-realignment.html
“Gerrymandering, in a word, is why American democracy is broken. While no party is inn…
Do not watch Cramer
Do not take all of your funds out of the market
You can post your fund list and get good (also less-good) advice about consolidation and diversification
Do not spend money on courses
If you just cannot bear it, or need cash withi…
Sounds good on paper, but I always wonder about longterm expertise and policy memory, since so many newcomers are inexperienced (even when not rabblerousers) ...
I suppose continuity of staffing could address some of that, ha.
to get back on point, this is interesting, coming through the long sunny calm and back into normal waters and skies
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/business/stock-market-turned-nasty-long-overdue.html
I have wondered about Russky bots here, actually. But this forum is way too small beer, I would think.
@bartab, not knowing what 'tinfoil hats' actually means shows you don't even know the memes or proper usage thereof, too funny --- that is what m…
>> Haha, yes, government allowing people to keep more of their hard-earned money is never a good thing!
correct, it's not when it cripples their children in order to float the rich even higher
come on, you can do better; there is real discus…
only if the infant were not eventually blocked at every turn from prudent financial policy implementations
although we do have that infant now, so it's gonna be all good
Two different macro takes on this area:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/opinion/republicans-deficit-budget.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/opinion/no-fairy-no-cry.html
One link I provided, can't recall which, noted (I think) that if you take out Florida, it is harder to see tax migration effects, if any. I think, not a clear memory.
But all of those links, whether you thought them solid or less so, are from well …
I think this is not total (reinvested growth, yes? That is a little different, so far as I can see. It's the only way to calculate these things, to my mind. If my math reading is right, DIA (etf) growth of $10k for last year was just under 28%, as o…
Not the Dow, but easier to deal w on M* for me:
SP500 went from $10k 1/1/17 to just under $11,780 today.
It had hit $12,183 as of end of last year.
So, lemme see, carry the 2, and no, not the case for SP500.
Yet.
Another 700pt drop will do it…
@davidrmoran Hi David, any particular reason for DGRW rather than VIG?
performance
was trying to get something more like CAPE, which ML does not allow
shoulda bought nothing, turns out, of course
