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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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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…
From The Barron's Daily this AM:
Coffee Prices Hit Record High After Trump’s Tariff Threats
Coffee prices hit an all-time high after President Donald Trump backed off a tariff threat to Colombia, one of the world’s largest coffee producers, follow…
If the below data is correct (and please advise if it is not), just an incredible performance by PRWCX today.
PRWCX had just under 40% in Tech as of 12/31/24, and yet somehow, today, when FBALX (the allocation fund we have long owned as PRWCX's com…
Interesting discussion here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ETFs/comments/16ye2tc/why_did_vpu_lost_462_of_its_value_today/
Disclaimer: I know nothing about VPU and do not invest directly in utilities.
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@bee, @stillers, @WABAC, @rforno, . . .
By how much are you reducing or have you reduced your equity allocation from the 2024 peak level?
We did our normal year end review allocation adjustments, and made slight changes to our deck chairs (hol…
Or better yet, maybe just find and convince a blindfolded monkey to throw the dart, at least when selling stocks!
https://www.rock-wealth.co.uk/monkeys-beat-money-managers-at-selling-stocks/
Monkeys beat money managers at selling stocks
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/every-major-wall-street-analysts-151341739.html
Click on "Story Continues" to see full chart of predictions that I've been unable to Copy/Paste here.
Very interesting prediction by Giroux.
So I got the VG callback and the mystery was partially resolved.
The rep cited the fact that my Security Questions were locked as the reason why I was unable to Login this weekend.
She stated that VG action ^ normally occurs after failed attempt…
OK, so I called VG and was not disappointed in their, as expected (and previously experienced), insanely horrific customer service.
First there was the obligatory LONG wait to finally have a voice TRY to step me through my issue despite the fact …
Thanks @Mona. I did that as well.
There are also a few other (reputable?) sites like Downdetector and ThinkAdvisor and none of them reported any VG login issues over the weekend.
So it appears my issue was an isolated one that it seems might ha…
Hey, and if any readers think the stress of this fiasco is overblown, consider this little ditty.
After John Mellencamp had what was described by his docs as "a mild heart attack" his friends all came a callin'.
John was doing surprisingly well, …
Thanks for all of the comments and suggestions!
Well the stress (has somewhat) ended but the mystery is not yet solved!
Here's what I did beyond all of the suggestions on this thread - absofreakinglutely nothing new or unusual!
I tried EVERY su…
Thanks @yogibearbull.
Any idea how/why all three of your lockouts occurred on a Friday?
My remedy as noted above will be a little more extreme than changing userID. I just don't want to have to ever again deal with this level of an issue in retur…
Thanks YBB and @Mona.
@yogibearbull, did you receive a similar message as I above-posted ^ when your issues occurred?
I had a friend log onto their VG a/c using my PC. No problemo. Must be a similar issue that YBB described.
Whatever the iss…
Thanks!
Here's the crap I'm getting.
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Hi Derf,
ARDBX has an inception date of 05/16/2022 so it does not yet have a 3 year history.
2023 performance - top 8% return in Foreign Small/Mid Blend category
2024 performance - top 11% return in Foreign Small/Mid Blend category
https://www.mor…
@stillers,
Please indulges us with your "pay no tax" strategies.
With your RMDs being 16 years away and retirement starting in 2012 or at age 45, I am all ears.
Congratulations.
Thanks!
Let me correct your dates. Sorry if my post was confusing on …
Next to nothing? Why stop there? For us, it's been nothing.
Not to beat a dead horse, but as a retired bean counter I've posted many times that tax planning is, or should be, a lifelong process.
When we started our professional careers in 1980…
I've gratuitously managed the ports of a lot of friends and relatives over the past ~40 years. I do it because they need the help and I can provide it. My goal is usually, depending on their age and my relationship to them, to educate them on the …
Seems to me to be two completely different skill sets-
• A): Insuring that numbers are being computed and accounted for properly, according to established accounting principles.
• B): Manipulating numbers in an attempt to increase their values a…
