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@msf: good point about supporting links. I agree with others who have said that posts that are merely links have been too many. I am suggesting self-discipline rather than rules.
For better or worse, the Discussion board is the public face of MFO to many readers.
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The public face is the home page. Nobody sees these discussions without choosing to do so. Nobody reads an off-topic post without choosing to do so. I support t…
Did your friend have to pay income tax to each country on the money earned in *both* countries? A friend who worked for an international news service was stationed in Canada for a few years. He had citizenship only in the US. He had to pay the Ca…
@Old_Skeet: you ask why the available avenues are not being followed. Yes! That is the question. I think it's because the vision of an America with fewer liberties and fewer opportunities for everyone but those already wealthy and powerful is mor…
@Old_Skeet : Well first of all I'm not a big fan of the New York Times. For many decades their reportage of any event at which I was present has not squared with what I saw or experienced, and any reportage on topics about which I am well versed has…
According to an old sea chantey I learned in fourth grade on a day we had a substitute teacher:
King Loo-Wee was the king of France before the Revo-loo- shy-un
Way haul away we'll haul away Joe
But Loo-Wee got his head cut off which spoiled his con…
do not the risk ratings change as a function of time period? (too lazy to go check right now)
Good thought! Maybe the one on the Premium site is one year or this year and the other is a summary/composite. I'll check. Thanks.
All the responses have been informative and fun. My real concern is that there are discrepancies in the MFO tools. I knew that FMIJX had recently reopened. After all the FMI funds website said so. My concern is that MFO Multisearch tool did not ref…
Thank you for clearing up what was meant in the chart and article. As for the sense of what I wrote I can tell you that "trillion" is originally a French word and that although the spellings vary, "trillion" is the word used in Spanish, Italian, an…
Except.... there are two ideas as to what a trillion is. In the USA it's got 12 zeroes. In Europe and Asia and elsewhere (and until recently in Britain) it's one million to the third power so it has 18 zeroes. Does this chart compare apples and a…
I was accused of making zero sense. Should I have remained silent? I meant to demonstrate that I did mean something. I am not anything like an expert on mutual fund word meanings. I am quite certain as to what "international" and "foreign" mean in l…
The original question was about Foreign funds. Context made it clear that what was meant was a fund that invested in companies located outside of the USA and by implication, it meant funds that did not invest in companies in the USA.
According to…
SF's got nothing on Paris in the Poo department. In any residential neighborhood, especially in the morning, it's dog poo on every sidewalk, and in all areas people pee on any available wall at 2 or 3 AM. Maybe that's why they call it the "wee hour…
VWIGX has 8.1% of its holdings in the USA. Amazon is its 4th largest holding. This is not a bad thing but it does mean the fund is not a foreign fund but an international one.
@Hank:
your interpretation does correspond to how it is with me and it is part of what I meant to convey, but not all of it.
This was my original statement: "About 3 or 4 days a week I spend about 4 minutes checking my investments. Sometimes it's l…
@Ben,
>> In my case there is no correlation between how many times a week I look and when I sell.
you would think (I would think) there has to be at least some correlation at some faint level if only because if you never looked at all presum…
In my case there is no correlation between how many times a week I look and when I sell. It's just like looking at baseball scores. It's fun and involving. When I was 7 years old I was sooooo into knowing the latest numbers and rankings in both the …
About 3 or 4 days a week I spend about 4 minutes checking my investments. Sometimes it's less. Once a month I spend as much as an hour. It's not because I feel compelled. It's because it's fun!
Please accept my apologies for my ignorant use of the the word "ignorant" which has not been well received by those with divergent opinions on other matters. I have done some research this evening and discovered the word has pejorative connotations …
@larryB: Because some are innocent of malice. They are just ignorant. Because, I want us to remain one nation. Because the best way out of this mess may be through more dialog and less enmity. Dialog with nihilists is impossible. But not all self-de…
Ben,,, my post was clearly labeled as a response to rono. It happens to post after Ooby. I never saw his post until my reply to rono posted. I have absolutely nothing to say to him. But anyone who can stand behind orange monster is to be pitied for …
@davidrmoran
I watch speeches, but not rallies.
And you don't see and hear him fanning the flames of hatred and laying the groundwork for a dictatorship? For God's sake, in a recent speech he suggested that anyone who disagrees with him is guilty …
@larryB: please read the previous post, written by 00BY . He has made a calm statement without a hint of flame fanning "trollism". This is not shameful behavior. Please, ladies and gentlemen, let us remain civil here. There are other places on th…
Cocktail parties in Berkeley in the early 70s? That would be like a pig roast party in Saudi Arabia. This is fantasy. And what is a "Berkeley type"? According to this article, Hell's Angels are people but residents of Berkeley CA are "types". I…
Whenever I see an anomaly at Morningstar, refreshing the page seems to fix it. Today most NAVs at Portfolio Manager look correct. In one case there is a discrepancy of less than a penny between one mutual fund share price in Portfolio Manager and as…
Hmm. I got through and am not a wsj subscriber. But I have not visited wsj site in April. There's generally a quota of a few free visits a month. If your web browser allows private browsing try using that function. To complicate the matter the a…
Coffee has health benefits. It cures headaches. It prevents traffic accidents. And to quote a a friend from the west of Ireland who was amused by the idiomatic expressions of young people of the late 1960s: "now the t'ing about coffee, it really get…
