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Not fantasyland huh? Consider these points:
1. 76 percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck
2. 62 percent of Americans have less than 1,000 dollars in their savings account
3. 65 percent of those 65 and older have less than $25,000 in r…
That alleged TR advantage is premised on the basis of never touching your balance and allowing it to just grow and grow and grow. Tell me, who does that? Who just lets it sit there forever and ever? This constant battle between dividend growth/incom…
@FD1000 - How do you know that everyone else isn't investing for TR as well using their dividends as just one piece of the equation? What if they aren't comfortable or knowledgeable enough to be trading in and out of positions? Or simply don't have …
@BenWP - First I bought/buy nearly all my CEF positions at large discounts to NAV usually after major market swoons. I don't tend to trade them and I'm primarily interested in the distributions they throw off. I hold only one healthcare equity posit…
@WABAC - no I don't have any hard data to back up my opinion. What information I have is mostly anecdotal relative to those who are down searching to make the big score either through day trading or the lottery.
With nearly 200K deaths in the US alone I highly doubt that Covid-19 will ever be forgotten. What I hope the experience does is bring to the forefront an emphasis on trusting the scientific community to do all that they have trained, worked for and …
The Innovators > Tech > Alt Energy > Health > Utilities. In other words pretty much what I own now. In line with your winners above my son and I are exploring cabin properties.
Edit: and I forgot AU + the miners
Based on where I live and the surrounding community if you don't think that Wall Street and Main Street are hundreds of miles apart then you need to come out of your basement once and awhile.
@FD1000 - Not really???!!! Are you serious?
If it's not the responsibility of the common government to address the common problems/enemies for the common good then why even have one? What good is the common government if all they are going to do is…
Gary, Covid was and still is a "national" pandemic sweeping across all states with our respect for boundaries. That requires a "national" response.
Portlands situation is a local problem and it's fitting that Portland sort out the issues. All 45 di…
And also from the Business Insider:
Kushner's coronavirus team shied away from a national strategy, believing that the virus was hitting Democratic states hardest and that they could blame governors, report says
If it hasn’t sunk in yet...
the President of the United States knew exactly how dangerous this virus was. Then, not only did he lie about it, he made a conscious decision to let it run loose because he thought people dying would hurt states run by…
@LewisBraham - yes, all of it correct. I can no longer count the number of times I've asked a Trump supporter to give me a reason, any reason why they continue to support him and all I get are blank stares and no response.
With respect to this art…
"Who spent so much on the military and solved several problems with the VA?"
Half true. He did spend a lot on the military but what problems exactly has he solved? As a veteran who uses the VA I'd really like to know. I certainly haven't seen or ex…
Apparently someone thinks he (45) said that Biden opposes charter school's.
"Our ruling
Trump said that Biden wants to end school choice."
“Joe Biden wants to end school choice.”
@little5bee - it's been my experience that it's not following the rules or what you know, it's WHO you know. Lots of that everywhere. (p.s. my part time hood is the Sarasota area)
If the article was based on one anonymous source I might be a tad skeptical. However it came from several unnamed sources and he also had this history of calling our military leaders stupid and incapable in addition to disparaging Senator McCain. So…
Pretty much all you need to know is right here:
"The timeline raised concern among public health experts about an “October surprise” — a vaccine approval driven by political considerations ahead of a presidential election, rather than science."
@Ben:
1) It's an Off-Topic post. Don't click on it if you don't care for it.
2) As a veteran I thought other veterans might find it of interest especially when 45 claims to love our military and our veterans. Lie much?
3) I had thought that the hon…
OS - you said "However, I'm not going to sit back while others continue with political comments and post without activity myself."
Please point us to those posts because I can't find them. As for individual comments, take issue with the comment rat…
Honestly I don't trust this current market one lick so my excess cash is going into a can buried in the woods of my backyard. I've had positions initiated in April of this year go up >100% but I'm frozen by the ol' "let your winners run thing." C…
