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@stillers That crossed my mind also.
Have a good weekend, Derf
Thanks. You too!
Note that I've edited my most recent post I think since you posted this.
To be clear, I stated (bold added)...
After just a cursory look, if it was our money and if we were selecting a VG "tax managed" fund...
Per one of the links I provided, there are three VG "tax managed" funds. VCTLX significantly outperforms the o…
We have not paid FIT/SIT since 2012 and won't take RMDs until Age 73, so no direct experience (yet) with your question. That said, it will be a very important question for us in a few years.
We will start our analysis at that time with a compariso…
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-approval-rating-slips-americans-worry-about-economy-2025-02-19/
Excerpt (BOLD added):
The six-day poll, which closed on Tuesday, showed 44% of respondents approved of the job Trump is doing as president, dow…
We still have ~10% of our stock exposure in Foreign. Similar to @BenWP, we get most of our Foreign exposure through a Global fund, PRGSX, and we used to also hold GSIHX, but sold it on Election Day. We replaced the dedicated Foreign slot near EOY …
stillers: I'm sorry that I embarrassed you. Of course, everyone misspells sometime on these forums. I was just jerking your chain to get a reaction from you as I have been doing with all of the libs posting.
As for the meaning of "work salad", …
Well,I have better things to do than listen to a bunch of liberal cry-babies. So rant on libs. I'm gone, not to return to this thread.
ENTER the facts.
EXIT the MAGAts.
It's our country was we now know it!
What the hello does that mean? Ha-ha.…
...though he didn't specify when they would take effect.
Yeah, so then, is it "Promised" or more like "Threatened" again? Last time it was the latter.
And is this going to be an every Friday/Monday buffoonish thingie? European markets and US fu…
In fairness (sic), what the racist buffoon said about his plans for the Gaza Strip, despite his flabbergasted** goons trying to walk it back, is being (accurately) interpreted as his latest attempt at ethnic cleansing.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/peo…
Note that Supertramp was London-based, and its band members were Brits, born circa 1944-1950, including song author/lead singer Roger Hodgson, born in 1950 in England. Song was released in March 1979. So they may have had very different perspective…
BOT a full position in GOOGL at $188.18, DOWN ~8.6% after yesterday's earnings. Gene Munster, Deepwater Asset Mgmt, my go-to guy for all things tech, noted the sell off was unwarranted.
May do a quick trade out of it or may hold LT. Either way,…
I prefer the Glenn Frey (RIP) version, LIVE in Dublin 1992 off the Glenn Frey LIVE album.
This video sadly does not include his brief, talking intro of the song that attributes it to The McPeakes (Francis McPeake). Dubliners went WILD!
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See …
Looks like the buffoon "went to Jared's!"
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/04/trump-says-us-will-own-and-develop-gaza-strip.html
It's staggering to think we're only 2+ week's into the insanity.
Huh. I did not expect the US markets to react this way. We remain in bizarroworld.
Haven’t you guys heard? Mexico’s been cancelled.
Story
”Who’s on first. I Dunno’s on second.”
Pretty sure we guys are all aware of what all happened today.…
As I trust you know, the video answers your thread title question...YES.
On your question, we own two Moderate Allocation funds, FBALX and PRWCX.
The only others we would currently consider are FPURX and/or CBLAX.
Reagan was a bit before my time, although he easily won both of his elections (for better or worse). I posted it because I thought the quote was sadly relevant today, roughly 40 years later.
Sadly relevant indeed. Sorry to call you out on that one…
No So Fun Fentanyl Facts:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyjsemotiuk/2025/01/31/tariff-on-canada-not-justified-by-us-immigration-and-drug-claims/
Excerpt: (BOLD added):
In Fiscal Year 2024, USCBP seized 21,148 pounds of fentanyl at the southwest …
WOW!
I trust many will find invoking Reagan here as a voice of reason of sorts to be rich!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/21/ronald-reagan-trump-comparisons-book-max-boot
Did Reagan pave the way for Trump? ‘You can trace the linkage…
Buy the Dip and Sell the Rip?
Trust the Buffoon Put?
Here's one take on all that.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/buy-the-dip-and-sell-the-rips-stock-traders-are-counting-on-the-trump-put-e7017958?mod=watchlist_latest_news
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Excerpt…
See also
https://trkmw.dowjones.com/view/66e9c5e92241b007af32ae7cmvzxu.28i6/20a0998b
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Excerpt:
Traders are shocked that a president who said he would place tariffs on countries with whom the U.S. has notable trade deficits has put ta…
And here's more on what was thought to be priced in from The Barron's Daily (BOLD added)
Trump Tariffs Cause Stock Market Chaos. Why Wall Street Didn’t Act on Warnings and 5 Other Things to Know Today.
President Donald Trump looks set to deliver o…
@rforno, with all due respect, I think your thread title would be more appropriate if it read,
"Tariff President's Markets Open."
As stated on air a while ago by one notable journalist (paraphrasing):
"No president or even presidential candidate …
Seems odd,
"Some analysts say the markets weren’t prepared for the upheaval."
Hasn't he been telegraphing it since the primaries or am I and many other market participants just that out of touch.
Agreed. As I said, "This one we kinda knew had wing…
I introduced the phrase on a prior post I think last week. Starting to think it has real merit: buffoon-induced black swan event. This one we kinda knew had wings for a while now, so we ain't quite there yet, but likely soon will be.
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Well,I have better things to do than listen to a bunch of liberal cry-babies. So rant on libs. I'm gone, not to return to this thread.
ENTER the facts.
EXIT the MAGAts.
It's our country was we now know it!
@Mona, for posters as wonderful as you and some others here, I guess I'm just going to have to take that risk!
And who knows, maybe he'll confuse these facts as "common sense" (sic) and use them in his next blabbering presser!
We easily could be on a collision course with a prolonged, buffoon-induced black swan market event.
Like what?
Like maybe the nation's/world's ATCs and pilots go on a strike until the buffoon issues a public, factual apology (that'll never hap…
As I posted on the other currently running thread, "Politics & Racism...",
On the truth and facts side, you may find this detailed, heartfelt analysis by Capt Steeeve with a map and the actual audio recordings to be:
More adjectives for the buffoon's verbal diarrhea episode today:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-grotesque-plane-crash-comments-213315843.html
Excerpt:
Lawmakers found no shortage of words to describe Trump’s reaction, calling it
“grotesque and …
His tweets last night/this morning were sufficient clues to project what the buffoon would say to the world today. I sadly got stuck in a barber's chair for most of it and had to see and hear the buffoon for the first time since election day.
Em…
