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Sorry. Was just how I interpreted the all caps. No aspersions meant otherwise. Having people explain why they value some links and not others had been part of the learning experience too.
@VintageFreak You've made that point before. I was responding to your statement All the intelligence I need is on MFO.
To me that includes links and discussion. No need to be hostile.
Considering how cranky he gets at others for that sort of behavior @JohnChisum I'm more than skeptical. And @VintageFreak the links that Ted, Old_Joe and others all share is part of what we find on MFO; when I first started learning here, the pletho…
@Sven you're on page two. Our contributions were on page one. There's a link at the bottom. I'm doing some data mining and will get back to people. Not sure what Ted is up to.
@Ted I'm surprised to hear student loans characterized as a waste. I whole heartedly agree that not everyone needs to go to college and that far too many people go to college because "it's the thing to do" without any plan of why they even care. But…
rather than jump to top is it possible to have a marker for the ToC, like how the ToC will send you to markers where the articles are, you could have a send to ToC? If so, option c, else option a is my preference
Data is often best, but as they say: "there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." When someone says something is an opinion, at least I know to take their statement with some salt. It is important to be aware of how reliable y…
Louisiana has a similar problem. Oil taxes used to only be used to fund education. Until the second half of the 1900s it had one of the better public school systems in the country. Now those taxes go to the general fund, and the school systems are '…
It's my impression that the view counter for posts has changed how it counts. Seemed that last site update the views per post stopped growing as fast or as high. Is this possibly true?
TIAA-CREF has allowed me to invest in a fairly wide variety of funds through a brokerage window opened in my Roth IRA, but I doubt that is standard through what I'm guessing would be a 403b. Not super impressed with their proprietary funds, not nece…
Hi, jlev. I doubt it and I certainly wouldn't bet on it. If you're wavering, call them. They're a small operation and you can end up with a serious answer pretty quickly.
Sent them an email 2 days ago and haven't heard back, would you recommend…
@catch22 those are all good points about how students become acquainted with several forms of practical risk assessment. The concern is how they extrapolate that experience and knowledge to unfamiliar settings. Observationally, I'd purpose, as the a…
To be fair Ted has received his share of (perhaps deserved) ad hominem attacks as well, and while some of those have also been flagged and edited, some haven't.
I sold my position in OAKWX, which overlapped with ARTGX in some sense in order to put more money in GPEOX before it's hard close. Waiting to hear back from them regarding an email I sent.
Book link:
The House that Bogle Built
@LewisBraham It has been my understanding that some number of the Vanguard actively managed funds have ER's that depend on performance, does that affect these calculations? do these not apply to these sector fu…
@Ted I think there's an easy compromise, just direct everyone else to the same door you went through, that way he still gets credited since I know that my employers care about how many clicks and eyeballs are on the actual pages of my stories, that …
For those looking for the original article http://www.google.com/search?q=Vanguard+Demonstrates+When+Active+Management+Pays It should be the first result
@LewisBraham Thank you for your writing and perspective. I will go find the article on Barron's site so that my reading it can be counted by them.
@Ted The link http://www.google.com/search?q=Checking+Up+On+Fidelity%27s+New+ETFs should return the a…
I actually side with Argentina here. The hedge funds own the small amount of debt that was not renegotiated in their last default and are demanding full repayment. It seems to me that to accede to this demand would just encourage no one to renegotia…
This seems a bizarrely foolish way to construct a study. See who performs best in an unprecedented down market and then compare against an extended bull market
@MJG always appreciate your thoughts. In terms of dealing with cranky comment boxes, my recommendation is to write your thoughts out in word or some equivalent, then cut and paste however much MFO's comment parser will allow and then chain a few pos…
@davidrmoran I find myself skeptical, but by taking some time to investigate alternate/opposing viewpoints I learn of questions I hadn't even thought to ask. Often they are not worth a lot, but it helps my understand my position and its consequences…
hmm... Which explanation are you looking at? maybe I've been looking at the wrong ones.
By "of this format" I mean funds using derivatives for exposure to the index of interest with bonds as collateral. An example from PIMCO would be PCKDX (where I…
