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WBALX Conserv. Alloc. fund is 4.32 % of my total. Your post above prompted me to look:
It's 44% stocks, 47% fixed income. And 8.25% cash, but almost 5% short. And it's overweight in materials, compared to its Index. 10.5% in Materials.
My other A…
There is no chance that there will be a cease fire before January 20, 2025. There is 100% chance that there will be a cease fire within 30 days after January 20. This has been predetermined by the two criminals.
Sickening, but I expect you are corre…
22 Nov, '24.
Vonnie Quinn is in as guest host. I'm Irish, but her brogue drives me up the wall. "What? What did you say???"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2024-11-22/bloomberg-real-yield-11-22-2024-video
Will Trump fire Powell? No. Rate cuts…
via The Washington Post-
Embattled former congressman Matt Gaetz, who withdrew his bid to be President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general on Thursday, said in an interview Friday that he doesn’t intend to return to his House seat in the next con…
Don't even get me started. My favorite phrase lately, when challenging some automated system's error: "How many other people's jobs do I have to do in order to get this thing accomplished?"
Not the US. Hamas, yes. Bibi, no. Despicable and unspeakable, what's going on. The Israeli cabinet is saying the quiet part out loud, by now: annexation.
Well, night and day. We see the world utterly differently. More's the pity. I'm no Dem. They seem not only inept to me, they have some crazy Woke agendas, too. Yet the Repugnants did not become repugnant to me for no reason: no soul. No rudder. No e…
Yes, I see what you mean. Yet he was elected, and will be inaugurated. The Founding Fathers surely figured that voters would not be feckless and spineless enough to elect (again!) a twice-impeached, convicted FELON. So, they did not disqualify crimi…
What bothers me the most is the local station bumping their prices overnight when the price of crude oil goes up. Their gas in the grounds is the same gas as yesterday
lovely, wonderful capitalism, eh?
My midstream (LP) holding ET was on a tear tod…
.....Now the fields are populated. The thing APPEARS to be working. It was late updating one of my funds PRFDX today. I noted that at another of my watchlists at M* with which I track the $$$ I'm babysitting for someone else, the updated number appe…
Look who came out of his protected fifedom where you can't say what you want unless they agree with it.
I am not a member of chang's forum Big Bang. However, a friend is and I understand that he permits a few of his right wing zealots to spew, but …
Ostensibly, gov't central banks exist to maintain stability of the currency. Yes, central banks do prefer a bit of inflation, so that national debt can be repaid in "smaller" dollars or pounds sterling or whatever. And decision makers don't always g…
