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Vanguard's new fund screen here: https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/list/mutual-funds?filters=open
It looks like you can only view one fund family at a time. Tres useful, non?
If you have access to fidelity.com, here is an interesting suggestion by a Fidelity poster on how to use one of their applications to screen mutual funds (OEFs):
"I found my funds by the following - Under Fidelities' "News & Research" click on…
There's a theory that so long as this "each wronged person must sue individually" rule holds, Trump won't appeal losses.
I doubt Trump can settle for losing until they can pry the Sharpie from his hands.
If Trump issued an executive order permitting slavery would each individual slave have to sue for their freedom?
Add>> Or substitute any other "right" guaranteed by an amendment to the Constitution. Banning the practice of some religions, ban…
If Trump issued an executive order permitting slavery would each individual slave have to sue for their freedom?
Add>> Or substitute any other "right" guaranteed by an amendment to the Constitution. Banning the practice of some religions, ban…
Answers from AI just depend on which websites they choose to scrape. Perhaps their mood has something to do with it. I got different answers than @equalizer did.
I asked Bing for "5 picks for Roth for next 20 years" and got SPTM, VPMCX, JEPI, RQI,…
Mainly Xubuntu or whatever the Mint Xfce distro is called.
In years past I tried Redhat and SUSE, then Ubuntu. There are probably some others in there I can't remember. I never cared for GNU as a desktop. I started on KDE, but as the years went by…
I'ld skip corn and soybeans for a while.
https://fortune.com/2025/08/30/rural-america-economic-crisis-farmers-agriculture-exports-trump-trade-war-china/
@Observant1, I do the same with the linux laptop since I lost the last one at an airport. I don't save any passwords either. I also go in and manually clear stored information because Firefox always has a few MB's of something tucked away.
I alway…
@Observant1. Tried the cookie trick. I only have one browser on my linux laptop. I've seen this before with WSJ pieces. I did eventually get there from another link that let me see the piece for free with an advert to subscribe.
I was reminded--ye…
@WABAC, not us. The long end of yield curve have moved up considerably this year. We have moved some short duration bonds to intermediate term bonds. Still cautious due to the sticky inflation.
@Sven, too many shoes to drop before I think about …
According to Perplexity, there are "at least" five cases going: Dinky linky.
This got me thinking about Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer: YADL.
In particular I was thinking about Justice Robert Jackson's opinion and found the following:
J…
I'm not buying stocks anywhere at the moment. But three of the top four performing funds in my taxable account--SEQUX, GRID, and GLFOX--have a healthy exposure to stocks located in Europe.
Make of that what you will. But it's a crazy world when a …
Yes, for sure. I even remember where I was at work (the basement of SF General Hospital) and what I was doing (working on their paging system).
I was at an Actors' Equity meeting. So I didn't have any money to worry about. :)
In fairness I should point out that the article goes on to say: Bitcoin isn’t Beanie Babies — it has global liquidity, decentralized infrastructure, and a dedicated user base So, clap hands for Tinker Bell y'all.
Coincidentally, I read the following this morning: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/corporate-america-bitcoin-strategy-hyper-113002765.html
To understand the risk, imagine if Fortune 500 companies in the 1990s had plowed billions of dollars into Beani…
Here's a BrandywineGlobal paper from 1½ years ago discussing convexity and securitized debt, along with market conditions at the time and risks involved in four types of securitized debt.
Riding the Convexity Wave in Securitized Credit
Thank you for…
Just remember that 2008 was all about securitized MBS.
Securitized gives me the willies if I can't tell what they are. And sometimes knowing what they are is even scarier, e.g.securitized student loans.
These days I'm starting to look at how bond …
Lewis Braham provides an overview of TCAF, PRCFX, and TCAL.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/this-t-rowe-fund-manager-works-magic-3-new-ones-he-runs/ar-AA1KRcLX
Thank you for the link.
I see that the opportunistic options strate…
Bonds got a bump today. How long will it last?
Between now and the next rate-setting meeting are one employment report and two inflation reports. And Mr. Market has his own vote too.
I have been thinking about THOPX and FPNIX, among others. But I …
Didn't we have this thread last fall? :)
I have already been moving more of the IRA out of money markets into ultra-short funds--or funds with similar durations/volatility. At the present time there are too many unknowns between me and taking on …
SPY sets more records and CGDV is still the YTD winner on my watch list. QQQ has moved up to #5 behind AFIFX, AICFX, and FGRIX. SPY has dropped to #26 on my YTD behind AUSF.
Any dose of Russ Kinnel reminds me of better days at M*.
@msf, what are you using to track those short time periods?
I was happy with VRIG for a while before I purged the IRA in March. SMB Private Education makes me nervous. But I can guess what it is. And there seems to be a lot more Freddie and Fannie …
@msf, I track a lot of ultra-short and short funds by duration rather than strictly by M* category; otherwise CBLDX wouldn't fit.
Aside from money markets, my IRA at this point is basically a ladder of M* standard deviations from BUBIX to CLBDX wi…
