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Per Ted: "OK ! we get it, now its time to close this thread. There to many other subjects like , investing in general, mutual funds or ETFs that come to mind"
@Ted: Good point! Let's talk some more about baseball bats.
If it were in fact "time to …
"the prosperity was strongly skewed in favor of the earnings of business and the incomes of the rich. In consequence, continued prosperity depended on continuing high investment expenditures by business, continuing high consumer expenditures by the …
"I am not responsible for the actions of my great grandfather, my grandfather, and my father. Neither is McCain and neither are you responsible too."
@MJG: Hard to disagree with that.
A current headline on an NPR story:
"Nicaragua's Embattled Government Tries To Silence Independent Media"
Question: And this is different from the situation in the United States exactly how?
"All gov't workers are severely over-compensated already. "
Only an extremely ignorant person would state that any characteristic of "all" of a very large general class of people is absolutely true or untrue. How stupidly simplistic.
That's like s…
Our American Funds AMCPX is also up ~13% for the year. Top 5 holding categories:
Information Technology 26.13%
Health Care 22.75%
Consumer Discretionary 18.83%
Industrials 11.10%
Energy 8.61%
Top 10 Holdings- nice spread of Health & Tech,…
'87 Olds Cutlass Supreme, w/ ~75k actual on it, virtually all highway mileage. Been a wonderful car for dependability & lack of serious maintenance issues. Always been garaged, body in excellent condition.
Everyday use: 2009 Toyota Tacoma, 85k,…
@Ted: Perhaps directly, but evidently not through other brokers. Schwab (at least) says "available to existing shareholders".
Edit: Yes, the TRP site does say "open to new retail investors", so it's available directly, for sure.
Edit 2: Just tried…
He was a good and honest man, "on the other side of the aisle". We are sadly lacking of others of his character and bravery, on any side of any aisle. May he rest in well-deserved peace.
Jeff Sessions to Robert Mueller: "Bob, this conversation isn't happening. Do you need more men? More money? Anything I can help with? Can you hurry it up a little??"
With respect to hank's comments, for a while now I've had to grudgingly admire Jeff Sessions's difficult and honorable stand on the Mueller investigation. I was never a fan of Mr. Sessions's rather draconian views on a number of things, but he is ce…
"The only cars that had worse paint jobs other than Earle Scheib were those painted by Maaco."
@Ted- your memory seems to be still working pretty good.
:)
Here's a bit more from Wickipedia:
Trillion (short scale) (1,000,000,000,000; one million million; 10 to the 12th; SI prefix: tera-), the current meaning in both American and British English.
Trillion (long scale) (1,000,000,000,000,000,000; one m…
Nice to see some reasonable discussions of differing viewpoints without the unnecessary nastiness of some past confrontations. "Compromise" is not an obscene word, despite the beliefs of some.
True enough re the Paris poop, but my wife and I have always admired the general behavior of the typical French pet canine. Quiet, well behaved, they don't run around in circles and jump all over folks, and even in restaurants, where they seem to be…
