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No second look needed here, I've held them for some time now. I bought them primarily for the income but I've enjoyed handsome capital gains as well. Most are a bit stretched at this time so I'm not adding but I do keep an eye out. SPG is a case in …
@Mike and @stillers - I know that's how it is today but I question the logic of paying $6K for a seat at the stadium to do so. Maybe it's just because my Vikings so suck at all this Super Bowl stuff. I would have however paid that same $6K to watch …
I happen to agree with it but I am neither an economic or financial scholar. Soon the plug will be pulled and another administration will have to deal with the mess while taking all the blame for creating a low-no growth morass. Rinse and repeat. In…
"Long-term capital gains tax is a tax on profits from the sale of an asset held for more than a year. The long-term capital gains tax rate is 0%, 15% or 20% depending on your taxable income and filing status. They are generally lower than short-term…
Just be aware that on January 4, 2018 he said this:
"“I am so bullish I have to sit down and calm down,” the director of technical research for Altaira Capital Partners said in an interview with “Closing Bell.”".
All I'm saying is that you should …
While I firmly believe that at least 50% have little clue as to what they are invested in or how their investments operate I also believe that 50% quite possible are unable to find funds available to invest at all. I know I sailed on that second boa…
@VF - that's not how he feels, people like him and his ilk have no feels. Certainly none for anyone other than themselves. All they've ever known is entitlement.
@hank - another good reason as if I needed another. I wasn't responding to you specifically. It was more toward just the concept. I just hate how the internet in general has degraded from it's original concept of knowledge sharing.
Yeah that's a big NO! If it wasn't recorded, stored on a server, passed around, and sold it would be a nice feature but Alexa, Siri and GA already have enough money. Maybe once my grandson starts programming I'll ask him to build me my own private a…
Maybe if they paid the poor enough wage money so that they could pay taxes rather than having them waste their money on the struggle to survive they'd be happier. Oh who am I kidding.
I'm afraid of losing it period. Having held my best friends hand from the onset of early alzheimers to the end I can verify that it is an ugly business. No thank you.
Thank you everyone! This is really helpful.
@msf - yes I would expect that you would have your own spreadsheet. I am slapping my forehead for not having thought of playing with last years return. Good one.
There will be many things said between now and November. "Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.” - Mark Twain
Edit: However accurate the statement may be it may not have been Mark Twain who originally said it. See …
@hank - Have you ever checked out DiscountMags.com for your magazine purchases? They don't have everything of course but I just checked for Kiplinger and it's listed at $12/12mo. I like to read National Geographic and I get it here at a greatly redu…
Good article. I'm leaning toward a bumpy slowdown myself but who knows if a recessionary sinkhole or a black swan or two isn't hiding in there somewhere along the way. As for the wealth disparity 'If you can't say something nice Mark ....'
Bought VIAC, streaming and all like that. Opened a position in the battered energy & materials sectors via BCX. Fence sitting on BBBY, maybe the housing market and a new CEO will help out.
@dtconroe - there, now we have a start. You said "At M*, the Discussion section is divided into various subcategories, called Investing Forums."
MFO has such a thing although it is not as sharply separated as you seem to prefer. When you login to t…
My own feelings are that the fossil fuels may present "trading" opportunities along the way but that they hold little if any value in terms of being a future long term growth investment.
Well not exactly. M* and/or their analyst said all that, not Mark. I just linked the article. I guess I should have put all the text within the quote marks.
I'm not trying to be snarky (I know, I'm shocked along with everyone else here who knows me) but you responded like a politician. I asked specifically about your 'discussion board' comment which you mostly if not entirely dodged around. I'll wait un…
@dtconroe - for the benefit of all please expand on this statement: "In some respects the M* Discussion platform is far better in design to MFO, but in some ways MFO is better."
I tend to disagree especially with respect to "far better in design" …
I've used two for some time now, MGGPX a world fund and GLFOX a sector fund mentioned by WABAC which M* categorizes as a US Infrastructure fund but it's mostly not. I would love to hear the logic behind that placement.
I think that this is a great and exciting topic @bee but I'm not adequately versed in most of them to comment intelligently. I think that soon enough, if not already, Nasdaq will be the market of choice vs. the S&P 500 which gets everyone all ex…
I believe they will Lewis because that's the way the world is moving. Progress might be slow and measured but I think we might be shocked by the investing landscape 10 years from now compared to today. Just in energy related issues alone we'll see m…
