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LewisBraham
Hi Hank,
Your satire came across very well. Don't worry about the user name.
Best,
Lewis
As long as you're comfortable with this, then you're right:
Third, mutual funds are increasingly finding that they can generate income from nonfee sources. In fiscal 2017, the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund earned more than 63% of its expens…
@BrianW If one has Celiac disease, can one still live a "glutinous existence?" Are the gluten free the only ones who can take the red pill and is the blue pill full of carbs? I tend to like more colors. My world is full of rainbow-colored pills and …
All true except what happens in a real rising rate environment, or worse, a stagflation one? We haven't really been in a significant rising rate environment in a long time, but such an environment could be bad for both Treasuries and stocks, especia…
@VintageFreak That would be a very dangerous slippery slope given that the current political administration has a very different definition of misinformation from people who were taught at a young age not to lie. The question becomes whose "fake new…
@MJG Personal Attacks? What personal attacks? The only thing I said directly to you about you personally was:
My primary question was focused on whether the majority of soldiers who do fight should automatically be considered heroic--a question you …
@Ted Seeing how the two videos are collectively 21 minutes long, and you posted your insulting response ten minutes after mine, it is evident that you didn't even watch them. Perhaps then you are unaware that both of these men actually served in Ira…
@Mark Regardless whether soldiers perceive themselves as heroes--I suspect you're right that many don't--the constant depiction on this board and in the media in general is that soldier = hero no matter what the conflict we are currently mired in, a…
@MJG
They are the exceptions. They clearly illustrate your tendency to emphasize the exception rather than the rule.
I never commented on the percentage of soldiers who are conscientious objectors and whether or not they were heroic, merely that you…
@MJG
You often emphasize the exception rather than the rule. In every actual event, individual exceptions exist. Some do good, some do harm.Grunt soldiers are no exception. And these poor souls do not make the decision to fight a war or not to war.
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@MJG
Unfortunately war is profitable for some elements of our society; never for the grunt soldier.
If war isn't profitable for grunt soldiers, that still doesn't mean that every grunt soldier is by default a hero and worthy of glory and honor. Muc…
@MJG Remember that our military spends most of its time keeping the peace. That too is its vital and practical duty.
I don't think this has been true in Vietnam or Iraq. Much has changed in America's military since WW II. It is now a massive industr…
@davidrmoran Thanks. It sounds like your grandfather Sherwood was a righteous man. “Maj. Sherwood Moran of the U.S. Marines lived in Japan … and spoke fluent Japanese, and was a particularly effective interrogator because he treated each prisoner as…
@Ted No, I haven't. Nor do I have any desire to as it would mean people could die needlessly at my hands. And from the looks of your avatar, you seem to have more of a fondness for Hollywood fantasies of war and the military than the ugly reality of…
@Davidrmoran I'm not a pacifist, but I am tired of the constant glamorization of war/the military and the mythology surrounding the greatest generation:
https://thedailybeast.com/the-not-always-greatest-generation?ref=scroll
Suffice it to say I ha…
Dulce et Decorum Est
By Wilfred Owen
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched a…
I do find these Johnny-Come-Lately pieces advising to index and keep it simple nine years into a bull market a little suspect. Such a piece would be far more interesting and provocative in June of 2009 instead of 2018.
Only in the U.S. in 2018 could Jeff Bezos be described as "left wing":
https://washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2013/08/07/the-politics-of-jeff-bezos/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5294feb639a7
https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/07/ama…
Regarding Centaur Total Return, I agree with David on this one. I commented on the lack of attention for this worthy fund back in February and was attacked for doing so:
https://mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/discussion/38730/centaur-total-return-fu…
@Vintage I didn’t say you were a Trump supporter. I am simply asking why should there be so much consideration and help for coal miners and little to none for workers in the retail sector, which is much larger and getting killed? What are the real …
@vintagefreak
My problem with your analysis is this:
https://theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/the-silent-crisis-of-retail-employment/523428/
I was just looking at the Bureau of Labor Statistics latest unemployment stats and something like 8…
Is there no middle ground online? Is everyone either a zero government libertarian patriot who believes there should be no taxes and everything should be privatized or a "Marxist Leninist" big guv'ment traitor who believes in collective ownership o…
The question is how is standing up for Americans suffering from income inequality unpatriotic and "hating America?" And if someone believes that to be the case, what does patriotism mean to them?
Aside from the fact that the originally posted story is eight months old, it is also incomplete. Here is a full version:
https://apnews.com/da385c1815934b909ba681c7b42773dc
Platt, who discovered and named the flatworm to crown his career before ret…
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-first-amendment-and-restricting-professional-athlete-protestsAlmost all NFL franchises are considered private companies and NFL players belong to unions that negotiate contracts on behalf of their members. Ho…
Who are the real patriots?
https://americanprogress.org/issues/poverty/reports/2017/09/26/439661/5-ways-president-trump-congressional-republicans-betraying-veterans/
The key to getting them out of the house is to teach them how to live off other people's labor: https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/30/wealth-banks-google-facebook-society-economy-parasites
@Bobby I suggest reading page 2 of the latest shareholder letter:
riverparkfunds.com/Data/Sites/17/media/docs/rpsthyf/commentary/RiverPark-Cohanzick_1Q18_Shareholder_Letter.pdf
Seems like click bait really because the emerging markets mentioned in this article are mostly Latin American and/or frontier ones in Africa. Meanwhile, the emerging markets index Vanguard's fund tracks is 71% invested in Asia:
portfolios.morningst…
@dryflower You're right. Copying and distributing articles illegally online is actually worse from an economic standpoint because if one book is stolen, that is just one less copy the bookseller has to sell. If you distribute a publication's pay-wal…
@Maurice Uh, you do understand that I am talking about Ted's constant use of CetusNews to get around paywalls, right? I'm not talking about the freebie this weekend. Ted knows that and I suspect so do you.
@Ted Not calling anyone, but don't pretend you're doing me any favors by posting links to a site that evades Barron's paywall. The truth is quite the opposite. And stop trying to lord your role as "the linkster" over people. I'm not the only one who…
@Ted
If you link a copy of an article that is stolen from a paywall site, in what way are you helping the author of that article or the publication from which you stole it? You are actually hurting both because readers who might otherwise subscribe…
From the Bloomberg article:
Alabama has been trying on the nickname “New Detroit.” Its burgeoning auto parts industry employs 26,000 workers, who last year earned $1.3 billion in wages. Georgia and Mississippi have similar, though smaller, auto part…
