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Personal questions for everyone: Have you ever been misquoted? Have you ever said anything that was misheard or misunderstood? Have you ever heard a version of something you personally experienced that bore no resemblance to what you perceived?
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@hank
Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Twitter:
The Atlantic story on @realDonaldTrump is total BS. I was actually there and one of the people part of the discussion - this never happened. I have sat in the room when our President called family members a…
One of the more striking manifestations of Trump Derangement Syndrome is that people who have always been adamantly opposed to the Vietnam War and adamantly opposed to the military draft, find it easy to castigate Trump for being a "draft dodger…
The Atlantic should be ashamed for running such an absurd hit piece. Not only unverified by any real people but actively refuted by several who were there.
As for Trump's comment about John McCain -- yes, it was really stupid. What many people don'…
Had to MJ up, but no it does not. These are for the most part speculative companies, many if not most without current earnings, involved in a product that is still quite illegal in most states. These companies cannot even be compared to the cash mac…
Good points, although mortgage interest is now part of the itemized deductions subsumed under the standard deduction, which is what I take.
The opportunity cost is definitely true though, and when one considers that there is some level of inflation…
It's hard to believe, but I think it's been around 8 years since I first interacted with Ted on this board.
In that first exchange, he told me he was not impressed with my blog and questioned my veracity :).
In my last exchange, Ted …
I thought we were all millionaires here :)
Anyway, accepting the premise that we want to pull truly obscene wealth back away from individuals for the good of society: Wouldn't it make more sense to do it on an annual basis at whatever rate is deeme…
@catch22 the line broke at an unfortunate place in the sentence, and I think you missed seeing the word "tax".
@LewisBraham Remember, under the annual wealth tax system I am proposing, society would be constantly calling that wealth back in. We co…
I actually think a wealth tax is a great idea. An annual tax of maybe about 3%. But it needs to be coupled with the complete elimination of the inheritance
tax. Much less onerous and disruptive to the taxees, and probably would raise more revenue o…
This sounds like a rhetorical question, but it's not. I would truly like to know:
How can the people running the Morningstar website be so stupid? They can read. They have had plenty of honest feedback from their users. What are they doing? They co…
@Simon Yes! that is exactly what I was missing. Thank you!
What a useful link. So it's right there for Morningstar to offer its users, and yet the geniuses who set things up have made it invisible without a work-around.
Once I've followed your link…
I am a past subscriber. The 2 biggest bad changes I see are:
1. The loss of the feature whereby one could compare year by year results of 2 or more funds
2. The loss of the feature whereby one could click and see the day's results of the stocks he…
I don't know any details of the Purdue Pharma case, so I cannot discuss it intelligently. (One is not required to have an opinion on every topic). If it happened as you say it did, then they were certainly bad actors.
As an aside, I will say that …
A few thoughts that I have neither time nor energy to craft into coherent prose:
The pharmaceutical industry has discovered and produced many, many drugs that are a huge boon to mankind.
The industry pours vast oceans of money into research, most …
But don't forget it's now very easy to get the "Carbon Risk Score" and the "Fossil Fuel Involvement" rating -- two very crucial data points to consider when evaluating a mutual fund.
Seeing as DSENX invests in those sectors that are the cheapest, I would it expect it to be less volatile than the market and that it would resist downdrafts better. Why don't the numbers play out this way? The downside capture ratios are all slightl…
I never considered investing in this fund. The high fee alone would have kept me away. And I personally never found him charming. When he stated on Wealth Track that very few people were left doing the work of analyzing individual stocks, I thought …
Ok, so if you are a citizen of Ireland, then indeed, he is not your president.
For us who are US citizens, he is our President, whether we like him or not.
(Although, honestly, I don't know how anyone wouldn't love the guy.)
He is not a PRESIDENT of anything other than his own personal real estate portfolio and the Trump "brand".
Is he not the President of the United States?
For two more yours we're going to hear how unpopular this president is. Then, after he is easily re-elected in 2020, we'll have to listen to how low his approval rating is for another 4 years. Seems like no one likes him except for the voters.
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WWNPX +22.52 --This fund has an outrageous management fee of 1.64%, has a large cash position and an extremely high allocation to a land holding company as its top position. I really can't recommend it.
POGRX +17.50
FCNTX +16.85
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