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Sven
Lynn,
Thank you so much. I am planning on a 3-year ladder since I am a year away from retirement. Lots of spreadsheet work to calculate the income replacement needed. This ladder will create a steady income stream. So thank you for all your help.
I moved back to high quality bond funds this year. Some of which you covered in the SA article. For now, I will stay with agency bonds to the bond ladder. I will pick active managers for corporate bonds.
Sven
He resembles Joseph Goebbels.
https://historyskills.com/classroom/year-10/joseph-goebbels/
Edit: . Goebbels used the Jews as scapegoat of Germany’s suffering after WWI. Historians have eluded to the Versailles Treaty that bankrupt Germany for havi…
Agree. We will be busy surviving the war. Watched Ken Burns’s civil war film many years ago and it still haunts me of what people had to do from day to day.
Adobe Acrobat sometime is clunky to digitally signing the document, but it is a common software widely used in brokerages. One may have to get used to it.
It has been very productive to diversify away from US, not just 2025, but likely 2026 as well. Others brought up how QQQ out-performed everything from developed to emerging market for the past 10 years. Hello, time has changed. With the balloonin…
"Regionally, Atlanta saw the most contract cancellations in December (22.5%), followed by Jacksonville, Florida (20.6%), San Antonio, Texas (20.6%), Cleveland, Ohio (20.2%) and Tampa, Florida (19.4%). Cancellations were the least common in the New …
This tariffs trade introduces uncertainty of who is friends vs foes. Confidence of the greenback and the federal deficit ($38.trillions) are called into questions. What can go wrong?
Warren Buffet once said, “You only find out who is swimming na…
Don’t forget Steve Miller who is behind this brutal immigration tactics on our fellow citizens. Miller told Bovino and the ICE agents that they have immunity and they have crossed the line of law enforcement and murdering..
https://cnn.com/2026/01/…
@Anna and @rforno, thank you. Great alliance and future trading partner.
In 2026 the developed and EM indexes are ahead of US already. Let the race begins.
Great loss to the investment community. We invested in LCR so to gain access to Dave Ramsey. I understand that he has a deep bench of managers who are fully capable to execute the Leuthold strategy. We will stay put.
Thank you, David for keepin…
3-7% weighing in PM is what i can managed with the high volatility. Regretted that every time i took profit. Both gold and silver went up over 10-20%, respectively. Interestingly, bitcoin went the opposite direction. Go figure!
PRCOX’s top 10 holdings resemble that of S&P500 index. Is 18% active enough to differentiate it from being a closet indexer fund ?
Here is the 5 year performance comparing it to VOO (tracks S&P500) and VUG (Vanguard Growth index). PRCOX …
This tactic and the resulting consequences on our lives will not be forgotten. This is only January and the mid-term election cannot come fast enough.
That dude is an embarrassment at Davos. His slurring speech and Greenland was confused with Ice…
Still looking at ex-USA investments in the coming weeks. AND, I'm thinking about (gasp!) adding some fixed income primarily in the form of local-denominated emerging bonds.
Same here. Still researching good active managers in this space.
He was slurring his words, and it is getting worse. The call to invoke 25 amendment is getting louder for good reason. Ronald Reagan was kept away from the public when the administration realized his mental capability has serious issues.
This is not over, just a pause long enough for him to realize how the Greenland negotiation will be long and challenging. I envision some lease agreement to expand US base(s) for security purpose.
Next target is Canada, Cuba, and Mexico, because…
We are unwinding our gold position slowly after a meaningful gain over last several years. Gold is near $4,800 per ounce. Gold does not produce earning and dividend, but it serves as a trading instrument in this environment.
So now all US citizens are more at risk on identify theft on behalf of DOGE. We have our credit frozen a year ago so that no one can open new credit cards under our names.
A giant replica of Trump’s birthday card to his good friend, Epstein. You can sign the card too, just like the president.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11620951/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-message-replica-protest-washington-dc/
He's now threatening tariffs on Macron/France if they don't pay-to-join his liddle fake UN club* for $1 billion. If SCOTUS was smart, they'd see this clown is far beyond using tariffs for any legitimate national security purpose (which he repeatedl…
If it is about national security, this administration is not negotiating with Greenland and Demark properly. Respect must come first in real negotiation, not threats. Leasing part of Greenland is possible just as many Pacific islands have done that …
EU has been prepared for this conflict. They have designed a “trade "bazooka" known as the anti-coercion instrument, which would allow the EU to severely retaliate against many US sectors including technology that do business with Europe. We will …
In just a year since his second inauguration, Trump has torn apart the work that took almost a century of struggle and painstaking negotiations from the world’s best diplomats to build. Since World War II, generations of world leaders, often led by…
@crash, i made a mistake on my statement above (correction made). Capital preservation is #1 objective. BTW, i invest with D. Sherman funds as they have done well and minimize the risk. At Fidelity, they charge $49.95 for initial purchase. Additio…
Speaker of the House Johnson just stood silent. This tactic just encourage China to invade Taiwan.
Europe has a trade weapon specifically created to defend against political coercion quickly and forcefully, and as Mr. Trump’s threats sank in, po…
As the world is changing rapidly, the political stability (not including their currencies) of many foreign countries have improved while US has worsen! As investors, we would like to invest where there is a better likelihood of “return on of my mo…
First time to listen in Chuck Jaffe’s interview. Great discussion on investment strategy by professor Snowball. More food for thought toward the end of the interview.
That $3 chicken meal looks pretty sad and it looks worse than dog food. These people never shop at grocery stores.
McDonald may have to rename the BigMac to miniMac for half of its size. A BigMac value meal is advertised at $9. That is nuts!
We track PRCFX since inception and it does confirmed @Crash’s conclusion. Also there is no diversification benefit from the Mag 7 stocks exposure.
As i have posted on this board previously, other asset classes including developed and emerging ma…
