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Some good points being made here. One of the factors working at our end is that every week we only spend half of our time here in SF, and the other half up north a bit on the Russian River.
One of the benefits of two-day delivery is that we can tim…
@Ted- Pure baloney. Neither of your links even mentions a fund. By that very shaky "logic" virtually any subject could be posted under "Fund Discussions" on the premise that some fund somewhere might have some interest in, or exposure to, almost any…
@Art- Now that's a very good point. We don't use the video, but if one does, that probably tips the situation pretty well towards Prime's charges being reasonable.
@Ted: This is obviously Off-Topic so why is it posted under "Fund Discussions"? Responding to your post in another thread, the problem with the Katzenjammer kids is that you are under the delusion that you are the captain.
Hard call. We're really looking at the whole Amazon concept here: having almost the entire world of everything purchasable at our fingertips. The ability to buy almost anything that we even remotely think that we might want, vs those things strictly…
Hi guys.. (oh-oh, that sounds like ol' MJG) yep, pretty much agree with all your stuff. You know darn well that I have absolutely no problem with Ted's post, other than his usual contempt for the same rules that he loves to blast everyone else about…
I think that you folks must all be way out of line, because Trump's Mick Mulvaney, current head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, just announced that there's no need to maintain a public record of complaints regarding bankers. Maybe Mauri…
@Ted: WHY IS THIS POSTED AS A "FUND DISCUSSION" ??? What does it have to do with funds??? Why do you have different rules for yourself and everyone else ???
The carping gets a little tiresome, yes? (What goes around...)
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@Ted If you're going to plagiarize excerpts from a linked article you could at least have the decency and professionalism to use quote marks. Since you're apparently unfamiliar with the concept, they look like this: " "
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"Stop being an apologist for Maurice"
@Ted- As you know very well Maurice and I have fundamental differences of opinion in many areas, and I'll certainly take him on any time when I think he's wrong. That doesn't mean that everything he says is wro…
@Ted- Maurice posted a perfectly reasonable item in the "Off-Topic" arena. Personally I found his information to be very interesting, and in general agreement with my observations with many restaurants here in SF. Many of these restaurants are up ag…
@catch22- Well, I have to admit that the wine supply at the "River" house is now a couple of bottles fewer than it was last Friday. But whatever happened here is really weird... every time I open this thread a pre-typed identical "Have held this fun…
"Still not sure how they plan to make any money? Where's the money coming from to pay the interest rates they are offering?"
@Roy- Perhaps Mr. Ponzi is one of the major investors. He is, I believe, a distant cousin of the well-known financier, Bern…
I've been hearing this "they'll all move" crap for sixty years now with respect to California. If they want to move to Alabama or Mississippi to lower their taxes, who cares? Good luck and good riddance.
@davidrmoran- Based on other reading, I'm inclined (within reason) to come down on the side of the "deficit Owls" as defined in your link piece. As long as the "manufacture" of money is stopped short of market saturation things should pretty much wo…
@hank- It's just me, but I'm with Maurice in this area. No way do I want "someone" sitting there in my home listening to and recording every word that I speak and filing "data" away somewhere for who knows what future use. I find it hard to believe …
@Crash- That's why I posted the article re the "Dark Grey Swan". When that area starts falling apart what are the odds that it will take the whole offshore shebang down with it, at least temporarily, as everyone runs for the exits?
@catch22- Hey there Catch- thanks for bumping this into the "Discussions+" category. Because of the potential for bond market disruption I thought that this article mde a good read. With respect to the China Belt and Road, The Economist has covered …
@Crash- If a particular fellow from Nazareth in the Galilee were preaching as is "The Hogg" (willmatt72) it's a good bet that he would have been dismissed as a "punk" (Ted) also.
Doesn't seem all that complex. Evidently the US is improving (by one set of measures) with respect to CO2 but getting worse with respect to methane emission, which is (by another set of measures) apparently even worse for the atmosphere than CO2. Ye…
"The monolithic media regurgitates everything he says."
Odd, I scan a lot of the "monolithic" media, and have never seen that picture before. Nor actually seen much coverage concerning David Hogg other than that generated by the Ingraham/Fox slande…
"do you believe Brent Crude is nearing $73"
@hank- Based on the fast-rising numbers on the gasoline pumps, I have no problem at all believing that. Got to hand it to OPEC & Russia- they've done it again. Venezuela being all but offline, and slo…
