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@JD. In a previous life long long ago I was the sales manager of a dealership that sold German cars. When we were notified of price increases because of changes in currency the old price cars became full price cars. They were still cheaper at full…
I'd never heard of this fund (prior to your post).
Looks like it is/was available on the Fidelity platform for a modest $5k minimum on taxable accounts. COGIX performed well in the 2022 bear -- earning a positive 10%. I presume what 'killed' …
@hondo & @Edmund- It's pretty obvious that you folks get really uncomfortable when presented with factual reporting sources instead of the usual right-wing garbage that you've been weaned on. Kinda fun seeing you guys get all riled up.
I cannot …
I see the article quoted people with an ax to grind, but did not obtain a response from the administration. That's not journalism. Its propaganda.
Anyone is free to ignore the obvious.
Agreed. That's why the "news article' was posted.
Yikes! the sky is falling. Everybody grab their tinfoil hats. MFO has become MSDNC.
Do better
Get some substance
You are too slow and dim and uninformed and kneejerk for this crowd
If you don't like it, pound sand.
I was wondering if the "rally" was Trump supporters trying to have a nice market day for his majesty's speechifying tonight. If so, they seem to have been overtaken by reality.
Some people really have an obsession about Trump.
Seek help. And rem…
"NOAA must have had 100's of jobs that were not necessary. NOAA is overstaffed."
And you know this to be true because... ??
REasonable inference from the poster's experience working in the govt. How do you 'know' they weren't overstaffed?
I see the article quoted people with an ax to grind, but did not obtain a response from the administration. That's not journalism. Its propaganda.
The only people quoted in the article were two Canadian economists - what kind of axe do they have t…
@Edmond … in response to your points
1. Scientists around the globe are concerned about climate change. It is not a conspiracy, but based on analyses of facts and measurements. I spent much of my career in air quality. I have personally observed and…
Probably a big American labor union did too... You know, the UAW. Working Americans. -- The kind the Democrat party used to work for, but now, work against by importing cheap immigrant labor and cozying up to Chyna..
w@Edmond … in response to your points
1. Scientists around the globe are concerned about climate change. It is not a conspiracy, but based on analyses of facts and measurements. I spent much of my career in air quality
Quite right, what papers hav…
Markets are generally up in the US and in Europe since the election. In Europe, capitalists like peace, not jingoism. -- there can be no denying that... except by willful ignorance...
On Wednesday 3/5/2025, Wall Street digested POTUS's speech to Congress the night before, and sent stocks shooting higher...
So is Wall Street schizophrenic or is the Washington Post report who wrote that article is a partisan Trump-hater, or a…
Another 'if you don't agree with me, you are (dumb) or (dogmatic). Well, at least there was no accusation of being a Russian bot...
1. A lot of science is funded by govt. Scientists are quite good at math, and understand if they do not provide …
Vehicles increased far more due to the deficit-spending of the past 4 years. Apparently, no heartbreak about that..? The Dems push for EVs which are far more expensive than ICE cars, so apparently its OK to pay more to 'save the planet'....?
C…
Well, if you wish to impute motivation of personally paying lower taxes (to Musk) and vindictiveness (to Trump), we can play that game all day long on these supposed 'investment boards' .
The Dems' motivation seems to oppose any action which se…
In IRA, re-opened small position on 3/5/25 in CTA - this is a managed-futures ETF.
Thesis: Like most investors, I have oodles of bonds & stocks. But I am under-exposed to commodities. IMO the managed-futures space is a lower-volatility …
Stay used to it.
And nobody buys your deflection away from Russian influence. Do you not find it odd that the US suspended Russian offensive cyber operations this week?
Our national security is at risk more than ever. We can trust Putin? …
And we are used to people who hate Trump more than they love their country...
To your point.
I'm not registered to any party. So you are assuming facts not in evidence, and are wrong, objectively in that assumption.
I've always found Trump'…
Shooting ourselves in the foot with tariffs will not yield positive results. If you think eggs are expensive, wait until you see the price of trucks explode higher. All goods will be more expensive - inflation ensues.
Its a war we cannot win, t…
Do you not hear yourself? "Orange Blob". Do you not comprehend how off-kilter that sound? Silly name calling. Ad hominem attacks. The rhetorical style reminds me when I was 10 years old on the school playground.
Seek help.
At sma3. Trump doesn’t force the Russians to do anything. You got that backwards. Trump is the Russians tool.
Clearly, transparently true.
Great Powers cooperate where they can, because the alternative can lead to war. Its strange how peopl…
The stock market is experiencing a garden variety correction, after 2 consecutive +20% years. Perfectly normal. Perfectly ordinary. Stock markets correct. They do so regularly when monetary authorities are not constantly trying to 'manage' th…
Yeah, looking forward to it. Bring on the tariffs.
If tariffs are 'an act of war', then those countries which have had high tariffs on the US for decades have been at war with the US for decades. Time to fight back, and stop being patsies for …
It comes across as a giant conspiracy to set up an easily executed giant transfer of wealth from whoever is deliberately or randomly chosen to be a victim. (Yes, I know that is a leap but ... Russia?) Makes me wonder if a customer of one of these ba…
If I were a foreign adversary of the USA, the core policies that I would support would be:
1. Leaving NATO and the UN
2. Shutting down foreign aid
3. Dismantling the professional USA bureaucracy
4. Removing safeguards for epidemics and disease
The…
With the general comment that I maintain a lower equity ration than most, I do have some intl. Very little DM, though if a negotiated settlement to the Russo-Ukraine war takes hold, I concede that could provide a boost to European equities..…
Shosh, I'd never heard of QGLDX until your post.
A simple benchmarking of returns of QGLDX vs the oldest bullion ETF, "GLD", shows that QGLDX does effectively track the price of gold, but it tracks it with "drag" (underperformance) of about 2.5% …
Q: "Has Schwab removed that restriction on MM? "
A: The only person/entity who can authoritatively answer that is.. Schwab, no?
Anecdotally, my expectation would be that if I have to explicitly place a 'buy'/'sell' order for a MMF, then I wou…
The qualifying funds does NOT have to be in the checking account. They have brokerage arm (Wells Fargo Advisors or "WFA") . So, taxable brokerage or IRA/Roth. As long as they link it to the checkng account, the funds qualify.
WFA offers any n…
The article is full of "mights" and "coulds". Everything is conditional in the article.
Further 1100 tons is 32,000 ounces. Extended by $2,500 (roughly the current price), that is $88 billion. -- And those 32,000 oz are not coming to market to…
OP:
If you are OK with illiquidity (which is typically the case with CDs), than an alternative might be MYGAs. As of 12/7, MYGA rates for my state (TX) were on offer from A-rated insurance companies, as high as:
2 year 5.2%
4 year: 5.2%
6 ye…
