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1979 was also the peak year for manufacturing employment . Anecdote from 1979: a classmate from high school was working as a Pepsi teamster driving trucks that summer. His pay was $9 per hour, when the minimum wage was $3.35 hourly. $9 is still high…
I stand corrected, since I thought he cut his ties with the US ! Of course, it would be nice to be an American who's living wherever they want. Let's see: Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg ,Netherlands for starters !
I own IVOL in a number of accounts, which ISTR is comprised of TIPS plus hedges for rising interest rates, so these discussions would probably apply to that etf as well.
DODLX and DODBX are both available, although, like Vanguard funds, Fidelity spitefully charges a $75 transaction fee. Vanguard only charges a $20 tf for purchases of Fidelity and Dodge & Cox funds.
+1 PRILX has higher returns, lower standard deviation, and a higher sharpe ratio despite a 61 basis point expense ratio advantage for FXAIX (per Fidelity fund comparison tool)
HMEAX is ntf at Vanguard and E-Trade. I had HMEAX transferred to Schwab when I closed my E-Trade account, so that I could periodically invest in this fund with no transaction fees. I can't force myself to pay $50 transaction fees, although $10 fees …
IMHO, they're Neo-Confederates who are anti-intellectual, anti-science, know-it-alls who refuse to take advice from multicultural governmental agencies, and who still think President Obama was a Muslim born in Kenya !
