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According to the "Delusions" article by Josh Brown linked yesterday I'd have to agree with you MJG in saying not so much.
https://thereformedbroker.com/2019/01/09/delusions/
You're absolutely right JoJo. You picked out arguably the highest paid profession in the list of 800,000 government employees, comprising 1.88% of those affected to try and make your point and nailed it. Now that you've vilified those scumbags what …
Again with the blanket statements JoJo. I think that you're making a lot of presumptions that may not be so. Just as not everyone lives an unattainable lifestyle so to do they not have perfectly manicured finances. Do you know what full time nursing…
@JoJo -
The median annual wage for air traffic controllers was $124,540 in May 2017. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $67…
Not to worry David. According to individual #1 in the Florida article "It's mostly Democrats who aren't getting paid." Just think, if we would have had a legislative branch of government completely controlled by the Republicans the past two years al…
To be fair I've never gone down this road but I believe the major brokerages (i.e. Fidelity et.al.) may have an education center for bond investors. You might also check the M* Discussion Forum for Bond investing, along with the usual Google search …
By Allen Clifton:
"A quick civics lesson: Just before the government shutdown began, the Senate, led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (a Republican) overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan bill that would have kept the government open.
The then-Speake…
In answer to your original question about HSGFX you could have tripled your money over the last 10 years with an investment instead in PRPFX assuming you have the mindset of forever pending gloom & doom. I would/could never take a meaningful pos…
Ford for me as well and I'm looking to add to TGT and ABBV. Dare I say this, I'm looking for T to have a run up to the $35-40 range so I can dump it. Yeah it's a fav of many a DG investor but frankly it's 10-yr total return has been abysmal. I might…
Like everyone else I took a beating in December.
Brokerage (50% of assets): mostly dividend growth stocks, (2.90%)
Roth (45%): income CEF's and DG stocks, +1.09%
Mutual Funds (5%): (4.96%)
MFO comes through again! Next time post a complaint on Twitter. My son tells me that you'll get a response from the guilty party(ties) within hours if not sooner.
I'm curious hank, over the long term (>10 yrs) what do you get from holding 5, 4 different balanced funds? To my mind they serve roughly the same purpose. Their portfolios may differ by an individual stock or 2-3-4 and their bond holdings likewis…
I agree with you hank and share your disgust. I'd like to see no shutdown nonsense but if our representatives are not going to do their jobs then all future wage withholdings should apply across the board to all civilian employees from the president…
How many businesses set up shop in Mexico to NOT make a profit or greater profits? It's pretty much the other way around. If you want to hurt businesses in the US then stop buying the stuff they export from Mexico back into the US. Of course if you …
@John - who is Barry? If you are referring to President Obama then remember what he had to work with, an obstructionist GOP congress and senate hell bent on opposing anything he wanted done for the good of the country not himself.
@Ted - "Much to do about nothing!" Tell that to all the government employees doing without their pay checks while either continuing to work or laid off.
And you left out the most important part:
"This figure assumes that the government pays amounts…
From the WSJ:
"Today, quantitative hedge funds, or those that rely on computer models rather than research and intuition, account for 28.7% of trading in the stock market, according to data from Tabb Group--a share that's more than doubled since 20…
And while we're at it, about the Great Wall of China:
"In his lifetime, Genghis Khan led his Mongolian army to break through the Great Wall not only once, but several times at Wusha Fortress, ..."
https://www.travelchinaguide.com/china_great_wall/m…
