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LewisBraham
Hi Hank,
Your satire came across very well. Don't worry about the user name.
Best,
Lewis
Imagine you're a money manager of an international small-cap fund with an excellent performance record but limited assets. Suddenly, Vanguard comes knocking on your door and says would you like to subadvise one of our funds and receive billions more…
@Pat_F Yes, I think it will have its day, and David summed this fund up pretty well:
https://mutualfundobserver.com/2015/02/pear-tree-polaris-foreign-value-small-cap-qusoxqusix-february-2015/
I don't own these, but lately the higher the valuation the better they've performed:
https://morningstar.com/funds/xnas/mpegx/portfolio
https://morningstar.com/funds/xnas/zvgix/portfolio
Every senior member of the Republican party knows this mail sabotage is about voter suppression, not fraud, and I suspect much of the base does too. It is evident that it is much harder to vote in person in congested and often impoverished minority …
There are slants at every news organization and objectivity is a myth, but there are significant difference in the size of the slant, and to say they're both equally bad is a false equivalency:
https://politifact.com/article/2015/jan/27/msnbc-fox-c…
Here's a way to help restore the site's integrity. Stop talking about censorship and fighting for a minute and answer Dave's question. Here, I'll make a suggestion--VWIGX. Low fees and solid performance. On the value side of the equation, which I th…
Thor who joined MFO at 9:19 PM tonight, made this his first post mocking someone complaining about trolls. Dummy account for the dummy Mines_Engineer I suspect. Given how Thor looks in the comics, I suspect he like Mines_Engineer has a secret love t…
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/bipartisan-senate-report-shows-2016-trump-russia-collusion.html
@Old_Skeet It’s pretty ironic you’re posting this propaganda published by an actual enemy of our democracy.
Methinks the lady/troll doth protest too much. From the way he obsessively repeats the term, Mining_Engineer could secretly really be into "hard leftists." It could be the name of a web site he visits.
@hank Yes, folks will assert with some validity that the EC is unfair because rural / Ag states have more sway (as they do in the Senate).
"More sway" in the Senate is a huge understatement. According to the latest data, California had a population…
@Mines_Engineer It says under your profile: "Joined August 23." There's even a "Welcome Aboard!" message to you from the site on August 23rd as a new user. So if you've been part of MFO for over a decade is this "Mines_Engineer" a dummy account you …
I don't know how you convince someone that they're being duped by the Russkies when they can say "See. The Catholic Church agrees with me."
Priests have used that line while doing a lot worse.
The First Amendment exists to protect unpopular dangerous speech not to protect the safe speech everyone agrees on. Yet that protection only exists in the public sector or spaces by law. On a privately-owned site like this one, pretty much anything …
@WABAC I do find it possible to appreciate why people may want a forum without politics without feeling the need to pillory them for censorship.
And I find carpetbombing the site with fake news from Zerohedge to achieve that goal as deeply reprehens…
Regarding Zerohedge as an unreliable source of Russian propaganda, please click here and examine Figure 2.2: https://rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR2200/RR2237/RAND_RR2237.pdf
@hank While it's true people act more aggressively online, my point regarding public dissemination of false information online is this and specifically Figure 2.2 on page 13 (numbered) or 31 (in Acrobat) in it:
https://rand.org/content/dam/rand/pub…
@Old_Skeet
censorship is the express goal of the poster.
Where did Old_Skeet say that?
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Exactly ... I did not write that.
Yet on this thread you say:
Th…
@hank And for the benefit of a few, please know that when you criticize others harshly for their political choices or engage in name calling of their candidate of choice all you do is back them into a corner, arouse their natural defenses, and make…
@hank The nice thing about numbers is that they don’t lie.
Maybe the funniest quote I've seen in a long time. Numbers are used by liars all the time. Hence the saying: Lies, damned lies and statistics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies…
I am against censorship and against lying outside of art. Herein lies the fundamental conflict/problem of the Internet which is full of fake news that overwhelms facts: How to eliminate fake news without censorship? Yet I realize on a site devoted t…
No question this will be a problem, but for the stock market the bigger question is whether the bankruptices are already expected ones or will some unexpected ones crop up? A company like JC Penny for instance was struggling for a long time. But if …
@TheShadow You are correct--six bankruptcies: https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2016/live-updates/general-election/real-time-fact-checking-and-analysis-of-the-first-presidential-debate/fact-check-has-trump-declared-bankruptcy-four-or-six-times/ I'…
@Old_Skeet Biden was a senator representing Delaware from 1973 to 2009 before becoming Vice President. Delaware is arguably the most pro-business state in the union and he helped make it that way, pushing through legislation to help it become the in…
I don't disagree with you. The problem I have is the constant attacks from certain MFO members on Democratic politicians running Democratic states and cities as producing no economic value or being poorly run from an economic sense when there is so …
@davfor The problem with cost of living is it disregards the ultimate impact of the state as a whole economically on the entire nation's GDP. It also assumes that everyone has the same wants and needs with regard to, say, housing. It also tends to d…
@FD1000 Are you honestly so deluded as to think Seattle, the home of Amazon, Starbucks and Microsoft hasn't created any jobs locally or economic value both locally and nationally?
Where would your entire stock portfolio be without just those two …
@FD1000Who wants to live or maintain a store downtown with so much crime
A lot of businesses apparently up until Covid made it more difficult to be in close quarters in any congested city:
https://chicagobusiness.com/commercial-real-estate/market…
Those "failing" liberal-run cities. Without them America would also fail:
It’s also interesting to note that roughly half of America’s GDP last year ($9.75 trillion) was produced in the country’s 22 largest metro areas: the 20 metros in the table a…
