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Wow! I just took a look at NHMAX it has matched its previous all time high of 17.51
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=NHMAX+Interactive#{"range":"5y","allowChartStacking":true}
This is one of the better threads since I joined.
Any thoughts on how this liquidity trap will affect stocks? (I do not think I'm going into stocks anytime soon.)
My guess is that we have not come to the 'point of recognition' about the trap. On…
@heezsafe
That's an interesting article. I just don't know. Muni bonds were for widows and orphans back in the day - a safe investment. Today? Maybe they are just like any other asset - traded a lot.
Long term I think I'm correct that inter…
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/puerto-ricos-house-approves-moratorium-052018350.html
I just saw this. I think this is priced into the market. And I think ETFs like HYD and mf like NHMAX do not have any Puerto Rico exposure.
@Junkster thanks for the reply. I was watching munis (and have a position in them) since you and another poster Dox? mentioned them. I think most types of interest paying bonds will do well over the coming years. I just don't see where inflatio…
@DanHardy And I can only find it disturbing that you can make some sort of moral equivalency between Dex telling me to go kill myself and my segueing in a thread about "too much stuff" into a riff on how that leads to climate change. I can only say …
Looking at the stock index charts, the bounce off the bottom has a very steep slope which to my way of thinking is not sustainable. The down trend lines appear to have been broken.
If the bounce off the bottom happened over a longer period of time …
@MFO Members: All good thing must come to a end ! In my opinion, this thread should be closed. 356 and 450 comments between two threads doesn't leave much more to say, does it ?
Regards,
Ted
I would say that people are behaving well and there are …
In my case, he actually said without any provocation as I wasn't even addressing him in my post regarding climate change: "Well you probably want to kill yourself if you want to part of the solution. The carbon foot print of food is estimated to g…
Some people are using the word trolling incorrectly. Troll: "One who posts a deliberately provocative message to a newsgroup or message board with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument." That definition might describe the very s…
While some of us have advanced graduate degrees and/or relevant work experience, others might be what Donald Trump calls the "lesser educated" This might lead some to have grammatical errors in their postings.
Those of an older generati…
I don't post here often, quite frankly because there aren't too many interesting discussion. There are a lot of links but not a lot of discussion. The discussions about 'the poster who shall not be named' have been more passionate, longer and cont…
China that has spent huge amounts of money in the past down economic cycles to keep people employed through recessions like the last one in 2008-2009 where about $600B went into infrastructure projects and social welfare programs
That is just anot…
I have to come down on the side that robotics and artificial intelligence is not akin to other aspects of the industrial revolution. Unlike the past, the world is 'full up'. People and countries are desperate for work and in some ways since 'free …
I don't post here too often. The threads are not very long and there are a lot of posts with just links to other sites that take my time. I feel that the ad hominem 'attack' issue is a bit tricky. People from different parts of the country and th…
That's understandable. True socialism is better than what we have today. Objectivism + Capitalizing Profits + Sociailizing Losses. The problem with Socialism is allegedly the lack of motivation to innovate. Capitalism would fix that except, "greed…
I think if you gave US citizens the choice between now and socialism, they would choose socialism and possibly communism if that was one of the choices.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/22/socialist-president-poll_n_7638400.html
Americans a…
a hypothetical question for @msf: If someone had a $10 million nest egg invested totally in tax-free munis...no other income...would he/she qualify for and O'care subsidy?
But you could have 10 million in retirement accounts and or home value or di…
@Dex This is a global problem and will require a global solution. My goal with this post is simply to highlight some of the current thinking on the topic and to learn. Your article about agricultural production was instructive. Jeremy Grantham h…
