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LewisBraham
Hi Hank,
Your satire came across very well. Don't worry about the user name.
Best,
Lewis
@Ted "Please stop trying to turn MFO Discussion Board into a platform for left-wing communist propaganda."
The bomb doesn't care what political party you belong to. I'm beginning to think you don't know what the meaning of "communist" is. The risk…
@MJG From Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock
"In 1947, during the Cold War, the Clock was started at seven minutes to midnight ("midnight" being a hypothetical global catastrophe) and was subsequently advanced or rewound per the …
@MJG I'm disappointed by your disappointment, but not surprised. You never fail to patronize. It's not even just the doomsday clock that is the problem. It is the sheer power of the weaponry unlike we've ever seen before as described in the video. A…
I am generally distrusting of quotes from Einstein or the founding fathers on the Internet(s): skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/25330/did-einstein-ever-remark-on-compound-interest
To the contrary--there's always a bull market in boosterism. Indeed, you could argue that certain unnamed TV networks exist solely for that purpose. Occasionally, they trot out someone like El-Erian to wring his hands, but that's merely a side show …
OK, so what you're saying is the portfolio is both leveraged, adding to volatility, and has counterparty risk via the swaps. Look at the holdings here: https://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1480207/000119312517055343/d321548dnq.htm
So the counterpar…
DSEEX is the institutional share class, which you can get for $5,000 only in retirement accounts. But you could also buy DBLFX, which has a 0.48% expense ratio, put 10% to 20% of what would have been your DSEEX allocation in that bond fund, then put…
I'm not really sure why everyone loves this fund so much other than the fact it has performed well. Maybe that's enough for those extrapolating into the future, but believing the past is prelude often doesn't end well. For instance the idea that by …
In fairness to Morningstar, the star ratings are completely statistically based on risk adjusted returns. There is no qualitative assessment there, only how the fund performs numerically. So conflicts of interest are irrelevant with regard to stars.…
@VintageFreak
OK, a logical argument about the jacket, but the bubbles in bubble tea are made of tapioca, and Asian/Chinese people and tea shops have served them for many years. I love bubble tea!
@Flack Actually, the article is illustrative of the dangers of owning company stock in one's employer, a common problem for 401k investors who are given stock as an option along with an assortment of funds. It is relevant.
By the way, how does knowi…
@Flack No one is forcing you to read this thread on the discussion board. There are plenty of other threads on filthy lucre. If you don't like what's on TV, change the channel. Just saying.
@VintageFreak You have to make sure your pop-up blockers and Ad blockers are off for that page on Morningstar. Otherwise, the new screen window/box won't open up when you select something on the pull-down menu.
@VintageFreak
OK, go to the Morningstar Premium Screener. Use the pull down menu, scroll down till you find the "Portfolio" section and the "Composition" tab. Highlight the "Composition" tab, and a little "Build Screen" Box will appear. The first p…
@davidrmoran It's also odd that whenever I've seen discussions about climate science at sites posters with new handles I've never seen before suddenly materialize to discount it. It makes me just a leeetle paranoid.
@Mark The problem is doing nothing is also an action. It is accepting the status quo, which also has an outlook for the future that could also be wrong and there is far more scientific evidence that old outlook is wrong. It is a status quo philosoph…
@Mark Here's the thing: Even if Curry's research claims aren't politically motivated, do you think the members of Congress and industry lobbyists and energy investors who seize upon her research as some sort of evidence aren't politically motivated …
Let's be clear regarding scientists' funding for research. Does anyone here honestly believe the oil industry, one of the wealthiest industries on earth, doesn't have the financial resources to back their own research that far exceeds any university…
@dryflower Yes, I do impugn their motives. If you click on many members of that list, you can find their relationships to the organizations and industries of which I speak. But even in the case of scientists without industry conflicts of interests, …
@dryflower There is no controversy about the science except for that manufactured by the industries standing to financially benefit from the denial of that science.
One thing also, TIAA is in effect a private REIT as it always trades at NAV--at the value of its underlying portfolio of real estate--instead of fluctuating above or below that value like publicly traded REITs. When public REITs are expensive, tradi…
Fees are never about the short-term but the long. It is the cumulative drag over time that really impacts funds as year after year they must cross that fee hurdle. So looking at just one year performance in 2015 is rather dim.
@bee I'm not going to debate you about abortion. I'm talking about contraception, STD services, prenatal and post-natal care. Last I checked, abortion services accounted for 3% of Planned Parenthood's services while contraception accounts for 34%: n…
@OldJoe
Remember Foster Friess from Brandywine Funds: cbsnews.com/news/foster-friess-in-my-day-women-used-bayer-aspirin-for-contraceptives/
Look, I made this thread mutual fund related!
Also, on the minus side is the fact that women use Planned Parenthood and other family planning services for a lot more than just abortions, but contraception, prenatal care, post-natal care, etc. The terrible irony is that by forcing women to bear…
The war on women continues. From the proposed act itself:
For the 1-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, no Federal funds provided from a program referred to in this subsection that is considere…
@MSF We are in agreement. Numbers still matter, but so do the stories. They both matter. And you are right--single payer is the way to go, but politically would be a truly dramatic fight to realize on a federal level. I don't think we get to single …
I don't know if anyone here has been to one of these town hall meetings to discuss the ACA with your local representatives. But if you have, you soon realize it's about a lot more than just numbers. I went to one, and heard the stories from people w…
