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@little5bee- We haven't done that in many years, but it sure was a lot of fun! When we did it there was no internet and they hadn't invented cellphones yet, so just heading somewhere with no idea what might be available for lodging was sometimes qui…
Maybe this from The Financial Times via Axios?
The Fed is starting to question its own policies
Several officials at the Fed are beginning to worry about asset bubbles and excessive risk-taking as a result of their extraordinary policy intervention…
"Don’t count learning short in any endeavor"
@hank- I certainly don't: "I've somehow managed to communicate reasonably effectively in spite of that limitation".
BTW, I thought that your "driving" analogy was particularly effective.
Note- referrin…
Hank- You've been reading my posts on MFO for many years now, and in all that time, if I'm remembering correctly, only once did someone advise me that I had made a grammatical error.
I really wasn't joking about my virtually complete ignorance of t…
I usually got a courtesy D- in "English" in grammar school. I still have absolutely no idea what a split infinitive or a dangling participle is, and to be honest, I really don't care either.
And even more lesser common are Michigeese and Michiganders. The folks that we traveled with loved that.
Have a good one, Derf.. and you stay safe too.
He posts known lies and then wonders why people have a problem believing his incredibly great financial performance- absolutely the best since Abraham Lincoln. Oh, wait... that's the other guy...
@FD1000: David's link that you are referring to is PRIMARILY about investing issues, and incidentally about financial sleaze at the White House. Your link is simply more right-wing garbage with NO relation to investing, yet you have no problem makin…
@FD1000- For someone who complained frequently about being subjected to"off-topic" commentary you seem to have no problem introducing some real crap in an investing forum area.
A separate isolated Off-Topic forum area was created specifically becau…
Yes, all of that stuff you guys are saying is right. Personally, I prefer to use the Underline to make the link stand out better when embedded in other text.
Like so: Here is Davids link.
Thanks for explaining that the link icon is a picture of a…
Yes, that's correct re deleting the “http://” that appears in the gizmo window, however when you open the window that heading prefix is already highlighted. Because of that, just posting in your URL will automatically replace that text. I'm with yo…
Its simple: Choose the word(s) for your link- let's say you choose "Here's the Link".
• First copy the link's actual URL address in all of it's absurdity, as you already do.:
https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaig…
"I don’t believe any claims of investing success posted here."
Not sure that I'd go that far. Seems highly likely that those of us who are successfully retired with no income worries have achieved a reasonable degree of "investing success", at lea…
Assuming good faith in FD's reports of investing success, we can argue all day about the validity of TA. (Personally I'm not a believer, because I don't believe that the market-moving potential of mass investor emotion can be accurately measured.)
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"And property taxes, maintenance, insurance and unplanned expenses mean there is much more to consider than just whether or not a mortgage payment is cheaper than rent."
Does anyone seriously believe that renters are not also paying for all of thes…
The text seems to be from Ben Carlson, director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management, in an article in Fortune Magazine on October 10; also found, presumably reprinted, on Yahoo.
When quoting from someone's original work …
< sarc: But surely the already rich are the most deserving, because they have demonstrated their ability to manage money well, and thus are the best custodians of it. The poorest are that way simply because they just spend everything they get, s…
My fault, actually. FD did post those remarks as a "quote" section, but for some reason I thought that the bottom part of that section was directly from FD. Sorry for starting all of this.
@LewisBraham- I see that I mistook Tom Bowly (whoever he might be) for FD. Yes, I understand that your observation is equally applicable no matter who might be making the "prediction", but for me there's a difference between someone who is supposedl…
Yes, absolutely, at least in our area west of Twin Peaks. It was as dark as it gets at night in our area. I was really confused when I woke up at about 9 am and it was still so dark out. At first I thought that there was something wrong with our clo…
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that an underlying but significant part of Trump's election and the current level of violence is a residual reaction to the Obama presidency. There is an element of our society that absolutely cannot handle th…
Yes, I felt that way about that question also. The"answer" seemed to be nothing more than a litany of preplanned "talking points". She should have been able to do better.
If I recall correctly, early on VP Pence was specifically asked why the US was so much worse than countries like Canada with respect to the national Covid stats. He spent his two minutes without even pretending to answer that question. I really wond…
