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David,
I would say close down the off topic area. I've noticed the vitriol and games have seeped into the MF Discussion area.
In the main forum if a person introduces politics the post should be deleted.
https://www.yardeni.com/Pub/peacockfeval.pdf
There is a lot there. If you can make anything of it.
Schiller's P/E is adjusted. Still interesting.
From the original post's link. Even based on the more common price-earnings ratio, the market look…
Good info - thanks
The key is to use other tactical variables in determining precise asset allocation. Valuation metrics can be overbought for long stretches of time and and one has yet to develop accurate allocation strategy around them that produ…
How would the wall compromise a job package.I don't remember a specific job package. I remember changing the environment, fair trade, corp tax changes that will help employment.
Dan - This is what I was referring to: "To launch our national rebu…
pseudo intellectuals
You really hit the hornets nest of pseudo intellectuals; among them Old_Joe, DavidMoran and MikeM. Watch how they come at you. They can not discuss it directly or with facts; only with emotion and derisive (google it Old_Joe…
And, I'm not sure whether or not the wall comprises part of the massive jobs package he's at least alluding to.
How would the wall compromise a job package.
I don't remember a specific job package. I remember changing the environment, fair tr…
If you didn't watch, you missed an excellent speech.
Yes.
The media spin seems to be it was his best speech, good tone but same things he said previously. I don't know what they wanted him to say new.
God, @DanHardy, you really don't know what happened, do you?
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/what-the-stimulus-accomplished.html
Save your time.
I've stopped reading your posts and links awhile ago. Neither adds value.
Earlier stories said that he was favorably inclined to fund the full build-out of the Second Avenue Subway in Manhattan (which would pass three blocks from his home).
When do you think the last time Trump took the subway was?
Let's hope if the…
The thing these kinds of essays fail to acknowledge is how short in terms of human history 100 years is.
Yes and just look at Japan's stock index it still has not gotten back to 39,000.
@ hank: Once again I must take exception to these kinds of discussions. Folks I'm telling you are turning off potential members by this constant desire to turn MFO into a political site This is a mutual fund investing forum.
I agree. I read ot…
Agan, Trump has won. He has distracted the press with the 'enemy' comment as he advances his agenda.
He won in that he has put it into the American discussion that the main stream media is biased and puts out fake news.
Many people see him as a foo…
I've never seen anything like this, where not only people but the news and politicians are out to get rid of President Trump at all costs.
Could this be because of Trump's polarizing personality where he represents only his followers, his social me…
Then I suppose the Tea Party is to blame for the incessant hate diatribe that is CNN. Their constant references to a certain German dictator or to white- hooded southerners came from that source? CNN has destroyed themselves.
Well let's not forg…
My (long-winded) point, "journalism" in the tradition of Murrow is dead. The mid-20th century ideal of reporters as some type of sacrosanct arbiters of objective truth is not the world we live in. Trump didn't kill it. -- He's simply honest eno…
"I'd rather that the ... poor are not taxed into poverty"
By definition, nothing will move the poor into poverty, they're already there.
There are different levels of poverty and different types of poverty e.g. education.
I am fascinated by Eric Cinnamonds blog. I wonder if he has a future as a journalist. He is prolific as well, posting almost daily. I do struggle to come away with actionable advice from him though. I can't sit there in 100% cash. Especially whe…
"Have you always hated the poor?"
When you contribute half of what we do to help the poor then you can open your mouth and bray.
Oh, you don't hate the poor; you just like them needing your charity, it makes you fell good.
I'd rather that the m…
When I have to drive over taxpayer-supported highways that have been severely damaged by huge trucks I do doubt they are paying their fair share. Those trucks obviously overstress the infrastructure, but the corporations have bribed the legislatures…
So those who are not customers subsidize those who are, as well as the corporations.
H'mmmmm
So, you think that the tax on corporations should be increased because they are not paying their fair share.
For instance, the public roads disproportionately benefit corporations versus the individual as corporations use public roads for receiving their raw materials and supplies and delivering their goods to customers.
Corporations benefit from the r…
@DanHardy. What I am talking about is our intelligence agencies found it prudent to leak info on what Trump / aides are doing. Dismissing it as partisan IMHO is missing the point. If Obama used the FBI, then Comey messed up Hillary. Our intelligence…
@willmatt72 If you are saying our intelligence agencies are partisan, then I suppose Comey should be able to control the damage?
@DanHardy I guess I'm saying the NSA was always spying on people and we just found out. To me it was not a watershed ev…
This guy acts like an entitled schoolyard bully expecting everyone else to clean up after his mess after having daddy fight his battles for him while he's in the corner telling people how awesome he is at fixing things.
How would you described T…
@DanHardy. Are we really saying same thing will not happen under Trump :-)
Besides it's one thing having NSA monitor the media and another calling it fake news. The first action makes us worry about the people in charge. The second action makes us w…
But critics say the crackdown has had a much greater chilling effect on press freedom than Mr. Obama acknowledges. In a scathing 2013 report for the Committee to Protect Journalists, Leonard Downie, a former executive editor of The Washington Post w…
The last President to declare the press as an enemy, was Nixon.
Making war with both the CIA and the press is a curious strategic move.
Correction: B. Obama
If Donald Trump Targets Journalists, Thank Obama
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/opi…
Hi @DanHardy,
The indicators that drive the barometer readings are inputs that is comprised from the number of stocks above (or below) the 200 moving average in the 500 Index, an earnings input consisting of TTM and forward estimates, along with a …
Oh, Dex, as of tonight there is no more tax penalty enforcement, so now the downward spiral you so devoutly wish for can happen more freely.
So what will you point to that it is a success?
Thanks, that type of indicator sounds a little like an oscillator in technical analysis.
The RSI is an example of it.
You might find it interesting to chart your barometer along with the stock market and your change in allocation to fine tune your s…
Real facts, real facts, look at the numbers newly insured.
Of course be sure then to root for its failure and for them to have no coverage. Go for it!
Are 'real facts' like your 'alternative facts'? Does saying 'real facts' twice have a special me…
@DH, see if you can think hard and figure out the reason for those three articles. Then ask pasha what the relationship is between the reason you have come up with and ACA itself. (Helpful hint: There is no relationship.) We know you are rooting for…
Old_Skeet
Thanks for your contribution. There can be threads here that obscure the purpose of this forum i.e. investing.
Do you have a chart showing your barometer overlaid a stock market chart? This could help in visualizing the performance …
