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Four governors now see hike after 2015. This is hysterical - they're not going to raise rates for a whillllleee if ever.
I agree but, they might just raise rates because they said they would and not to lose street cred.
I'm watching Longmire on Netflicks
I, too, was watching Longmire (but from a DVD). I wonder what %age of the population was watching an old Longmire episode instead of the debates :)
I don't have Cable TV, hence I can't watch any debates that r…
Our federal debt history certainly is spike-filled with peaks during war years. The spikes notwithstanding, the national debt as a percentage of GDP has been rising since a low of under 10% in 1900 to its present value of over 100% today. That’s…
So yes, I got nothing more to offer.
I think we all can agree with you on that.
You see you proved my point above, you are afraid to put something of yourself in the post. You post a link alone without saying what your position is and how what…
>> most economic theories are an attempt to manage an economy from the top down. >> ... I think the key to economics from a governmental standpoint is to understand the possible effects of government actions on an economy and not follow…
Hi Dex,
I’m an engineer by training and by professional practice. I carry with me a “can do” attitude and discipline. I am never in the doomsday prophets camp. I am not clairvoyant, but I do not share your negative perspectives.
World trade rel…
Hi Dex,
Although the scale has changed in the positive direction, free trade has forever been a goal of economists everywhere, both yesterday and today.
For example, in the Mankiw book that I referenced, he has a summary survey of what current eco…
As you say, most economic theories are an attempt to manage an economy from the top down. The all have their good points. I think the key to economics from a governmental standpoint is to understand the possible effects of government actions on an…
B1: Any economic recovery, no matter how slow and how delayed, proves Keynesian economics wrong. See [2] above for why that’s illiterate.
B2: Keynesians believe that printing money solves all problems. See [3]: Printing money can solve one specifi…
Hi, guys.
The bottom line is that a cyclical bear began in August and it's got a ways to go. Their bear market targets for the S&P 500 - based on a variety of different bear patterns - are in the range of 1500-1600; it closed Friday, 9/11, at 1…
You're betting on a trend reversing - if you set a (sell) limit order above the current price and your price is hit, the ETF is trending up. If the trend continues, you would have been better off waiting until later in the day. If the trend…
ETFs do have a value which I don't know how to quantify.
If you sell a mutual fund, you get the end of day price - you don't have any control over that.
With a ETF you can put in a limit order and good until canceled. So, if selling you can set y…
"Deteriorata"
You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here.
Deteriorata. Deteriorata.
Go placidly amid the noise and waste,
And remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
Avoid quiet and passive persons, unless…
Hi Guys,
The post asserting victory is rubbish and boorish to the extreme.
And for those who don't know that enough of Kenny Rogers is enough also (courtesy of GEICO, don't cha know):
The point of the GEICO commercial was that KR song has becom…
Monte Carlo simulator:
https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/monte-carlo-simulation
Here's another one that allows you to put in SS, pension and spouse info.
http://www.cfiresim.com/
Give it a shot.
As for the 4% or whatever withdrawal rate, doesn't the size of one's nest egg count for something? Meaning, a debt free couple with a $3,000,000 nest egg who lives half way frugally could just live off their principal and not worry about the whi…
WHY 4% COULD FAIL
Sep 1, 2015 • Wade Pfau & Wade Dokken
The 4% rule isn't worth much. I posted this in another thread on how to estimate for retirement.
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Too many assumptions to go into th…
Brilliant Dex.
BS: Somebody actually paid you to ass-er-tain the obvious?
"Brilliant" no need to state the obvious - if everyone wrote that about my posts, it would become a distraction.
B.S. (Baccalaureus Scientiae) - how did you know? …
@Scott - :)
I'm trying to figure who the #5 is?
Guesses:
1. Maybe PBS?
2. Maybe Bloomberg? They see. fairly even-handed.
3. And I do credit CBS with a far superior evening news program than either NBC or ABC.
Back in the day I had the jo…
Because way sharper and more widely informed than you in this area, that's how. Plus I know what false premises are. But you can have the last word yet again.
Are you trying to have the last word?
OJ, msf - +1
'that doesn't play' --- lolz, Dex. Are you still beating your falsely premised subjects?
Are you still being obtuse.
Link:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/obtuse
You posed a question laden with false assumptions, faulty logic, ambiguous wording, and bemoaned a response that wasn't your preferred answer to the leading question. That is, to the extent it was even formulated as a coherent, let alone cogent, q…
The part that says: the answer is.
If you don't like the response, perhaps that's because your question started with a false premise. I gave the most logical response to an illogical question.
In your mind that probably sounds reasonable, in the…
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White man writes much, says little.
Can't help notice you didn't say I failed to answer your question. Your turn to answer.
Where in any of that answers the question I asked?
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Dex, it is not worth discussing things with you when you're in high dudgeon, I have found, but I did start at the top by pointing out that doubling the price of vegetables/fruits and TVs does the poor no good at all, to the contrary.
I am…
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Where in any of that answers the question?
If a person comes here legally and overstays their visa, they are now here illegally.
You can't answer the question so you attempt to parse words ... doesn't work. But keep at it. It is funny watc…
"People have stated that there are benefits to the US economy from illegal immigration ..."
People have stated that there are benefits to the US economy from any immigration - no illegal qualifier. Could you point out someone supporting strictly …
You didn't answer this one from my post:
"If illegal immigration is such a great idea - why not allow it for all jobs - COO, CFO, VPs, Human Resources, school teachers, college professor, investment adviser, home inspectors, doctors, nurses, lawy…
Lewis, great, I never said immigrants were more or less represented than we "nativists".
You are going to find that there are people here that can not handle more than one variable at a time.
A poster will find a link saying that illegal aliens…
If illegal immigration is such a great idea, why have any laws restricting it? Because if we didn't have laws restricting it, it wouldn't be illegal? Trick question?
Trick answer ... and not a very good one.
You didn't answer this one from my …
>> All the articles you post are not relevant and are attempting to justify trade deals.
It appears Dex has not actually read the arguments, to keep repeating how harmful it is. Not that it is not, in some ways and to some extent. No one que…
Wage growth flat since 1970s
The myth of 'American exceptionalism' implodes
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/17/economics-globalrecession
"The rich, however, have got much richer since the 1970s, as every measure of US i…
