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I gave up on EM and International stuff some years ago. Way back in '08-09, I did very well with EM bonds. Took some good advice from someone here and re-diversified soon after the GFC. Europe, it seems to me, will forever be playing both ends off t…
A little bit of back-door bragging, @Baseball_Fan? You can afford to sit on 20 years' worth of a security-cushion? Unimaginable to me. And we live modestly.
Thanks for putting that together, @hank. Sonal Desai was just on "Real Yield" again, on Friday evening. Reasoned, smart, easy to listen to. Years ago, I realized that Abby Joseph Cohen is a perma-bull. And often missed the mark, when checking result…
Yes, and they avoid partisan remarks. But the foundational Common Ground has been eroded. The Repugnant Insurgency has decided that it's more important to win than to provide leadership or any semblance of an imitation of ethics. Just look at whose …
Fun to listen to. I still don't prefer any of the "glide-path" funds. Too much "cookie cutter" stuff going on there. I'm always trying to watch out for my own Confirmation Bias. Page, this time, emphasizes trusting the "right" Fund Managers who ca…
Agreed!
And after a partial rejigger in January, I find myself at 57 stocks 37 bonds and 5 cash. Close enough, I guess. PRNEX is more trouble than it's worth. Gonna exit and redeploy the money in that one. Too volatile, and performance has been yuc…
An unrelated horror story:
Asiana. Competitor to Korean Air. Flight outbound on Christmas Day, 2018. JFK to ICN and onward to CEB. Not a hitch.
Return? Not so much. Plane at last showed up, after waiting at the gate for 3.5 hours. Middle of the ni…
Agreed!
And after a partial rejigger in January, I find myself at 57 stocks 37 bonds and 5 cash. Close enough, I guess. PRNEX is more trouble than it's worth. Gonna exit and redeploy the money in that one. Too volatile, and performance has been yuc…
This is big. Note the timing: "documents filed in federal court last month." But the issues go back for at least a couple of years. And that guy, the employee, got demoted.
And there are still people who still assert that we all should just trust…
"...The agency also said it would assess the safety risks of having delegated some of its oversight authority to Boeing."
Your tax dollars at work! ORK! Talk about REGULATORY CAPTURE! This is a step beyond even that. They just trusted the manufac…
Very straightforward and readable. Thanks, @davfor. Needless to say, no one should try to exactly mimic what someone else has done, but there are lessons to be learned. One thing of note: he expresses that he was forced by health issues to retire ea…
+1.
Never was invested in it. I had begun to repatriate the lion's share of foreign stuff in my portfolio. Disappointed with the stuff I held offshore. Now I'm just 7% foreign--- because of Fund Managers' choices...
I'm surely glad to have clicked on THIS thread. Thank you, David and David.
Ever since I started out in investing, just beginning my 403b, always self-directed--- I knew I must constantly stay on top of whatever I could get my hands on in terms of …
Yes. I left Matthews after an arrogant prick treated me like dirt on the phone, a handful of years ago. Glad I did.
Do you recall which fund you were invested in at the time?
I had been in MACSX and MAPIX. Then consolidated all into MAPIX.
I was …
I own a tiny portion of BA stock via PRFDX. Other than that, they'll not see any of my money. And now, the next question is: how do I get off "The Rock" here and go visit back East without getting on a Boeing jet??? Jayzuz.
Bingo. The conclusion:
"...you just can’t interpret surveys of economic sentiment, or for that matter anything else, without taking into account the fact that the modern G.O.P. bears no resemblance to the Republican Party of past years, or for that …
Throwing some $$$ at Tenaris (ADR) TS. Deep water oil drilling, specialty horizontal shale pipes. Thinking about all those companies in north Alberta, making money by defacing Canada, around Ft. McMurray, plus the offshore stuff around Guyana. And e…
Hey, @Old_Joe.
I cannot see any cotter pin. I do see a spot where a tiny sliver of a silver-colored piece is visible. Might that indicate that the attached piece was not tightly snug? In other words, should we be seeing that tiny silver-colored sliv…
Fishing ROCKS. The solitude. Time to unload all the junk collected in the head. Just nature and me and the water and the fish. Don't let the NEXT one get away!
Air Florida. From Washington, D.C. Horrible cold, snow that day. A few survivors were plucked out of the Potomac. And I recall that crash in the dark and the snow, near Buffalo.
.....But I did not move this thread to OT. :)
SOMEONE did... As noted by @Old_Joe, the INVESTMENT implications here are pretty obvious, thus I originally put the thing into the "other investing" category. to wit.:
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote…
