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Planned early January annual chunk taken from the portfolio. This year, it's bigger: sending the (foreign) niece to go to school (and eventually permanent immigration) in Australia. Nice to be able to do it. The satisfaction is worth more than the m…
It's another symptom of our nascent banana republic status. I'm going to check my daily mail, right now. I must take the elevator down 3 floors, to the locked, secured lobby. Allegedly, my passport must be SIGNED for. Registered Mail. But I'll be gl…
My son just turned 31 and I'm recommending 100 percent stocks for him until he gets to age 50 or so.
SCHD, I note from your list. If you're taking dividends, be sure to reinvest them. Otherwise, just choose funds which do not pay dividends. But re…
Hello. Perhaps just edit your posting down? Condense it, make it more sharply focused? What are you seeking, exactly?
any input on narrowing down my portfolio funds would be greatly appreciated
But then there are dozens listed. Do you own them all…
@BaluBalu
Noam Chomsky, "The Common Good:"
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident…
Yes. ^^^
And yet, no recession, but no Santa Claus rally, either. End-of-year buying-sentiment was apparently beat out by tax loss harvesting. Did fund managers sit this one out, with New Year's Day on the horizon?
@msf Ah, yes: total stocks, not total portf.
Here's more, and more particularly:
X-Ray shows:
Cash 6
Other 4
US stocks 41
Foreign 1
Bonds 49.
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North America equities: 82.62
Latam 16.5
UK 0.17
Europe Dev. 0.14
Australiasia 0.56
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@rono I just referred to you in a post of my own. Noticed we'd not heard from you in a while. Nice to see the belated music again this year. Appreciate your extended message.
Viable 3rd Party? Nope. The Dems and Reps have made sure to lock things up tight, between them. Even though the Reps have ceased to be a Party. They have morphed into a subversive organization. Been that way since Ronny Ray-guns and Gingrich the New…
The majority of the votes cast between Harris and the Orange One went to Trump. Still, it was a plurality. He won big in the Electoral College, which is a relic that must be put to sleep, permanently. It amounts to the minority replacing the majorit…
Abandoned the sell limit-order on BHB in favor of a Market order this morning. The SOB just has kept falling lately with no let-up. Still managed almost 15% to the upside with it. Proceeds into BLX and with just a smidge into WCPNX. (No partial buy-…
Oligarchy, plutocracy. Exhibit A. I'm just out of vomitus. I'm dry-heaving, by now. Someone, please wake me from this nightmare. Deplorables have won the day. "Drink up all the Kool-Aid, we'll just make more." Reminds me of Soylent Green, too.
"Th…
BUY-SELL-WHY:
I have a sell limit-order to replace BHB with BLX. Change of pace! BHB is fading. I wanna hold onto some goodly profit before it drips away.
the local public LENDING library RENTS DVDs for a $2.00 fee. I won't pay it on principle.
wtf is the principle
Sorry, David. I wasn't listening. Did you mean something like this?
I refused to PAY for entry back in Springfield into a tax-suppor…
I smell another GFC again....... Big Money can NEVER be trusted to police itself. The Banksters want to sue? They know the Trumpster regime (sic) will be supportive.
BUY-SELL-WHY.
I am bird-dogging BHB. A SELL candidate. Remember the day after the election? Everything popped. It's been fading into the woodwork, since. Still holding a 16% profit. Mr. Market does not like the idea of fewer rate cuts looming. No su…
Roku TV with no extras. T-Mobile internet. One phone on T-Mobile, another phone on Consumer Cellular. Approx. $174/month.
Speakeasy internet speeds:
231 mbps download
104 upload.
Metro Honolulu.
Even the local public LENDING library RENTS DVDs for a $2.00 fee. I won't pay it on principle. And I can do just fine at no cost with Roku-available channels. My curiosity always finds something. It's rare that I sit to watch for an extended period.…
Again, the Kool-Aid wino shows up to throw a grenade.
He created his own Kool-Aid reality and was able to illuminate
himself by it. ...Richard Brautigan, "Trout Fishing In America."
sarcasm there. Repugnants blocked the report from being published until now. A lame duck gesture. Re: Garland: ya don't indict unless you know you're going to win.
"A president valuing personal loyalty over professional competence would no longer face any institutional resistance."
Can anyone guess which finger I'm holding up?
;)
We signed up for a free week of Discovery+ in order to watch a 4-part series. We were astounded at the number and frequency of ads. I assume if you pay double the intro rate, you get no ads. No interest in that, just a confirmation of why we don’t w…
Good points, OJ. I prefer grapefruit, pink or otherwise. Same difference. I do expect inflation, though much more tame, will not soon fall to 2%. But a recent check of airfares --- for summertime--- feels almost palatable.
