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Dear Icyone,
quote:"Should there "be" such a thing as a "nontaxable account"?? "
This is an interesting point. But Congress can always shange the rules.
For example, we have been promised that money in a Roth IRA will never have to pay "INCOME…
Dear Fundalarm,
I guess that you have appointed yourself as kind of a police person for this site-- but you should read the post more clearly before making anal comments-- this post was originally and always was listed as "off-topic". Surely you h…
Whoops, I gave you the link for the one that goes back only 3 years. Here is the link for one that goes back 18 years.
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$SPX&p=W&yr=18&mn=0&dy=0&id=p36906303834&a=261213540
Does this chart work for you??
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$SPX&p=W&b=5&g=0&id=p80235111310
the link will take you to a live version of the data. It is FREE on Stockcharts. Just copy the link to your favorites task bar and y…
All these categorizations are out-of-date by definition, since the portfolio holdings are always based on old info. (obviously index funds & ETF's are different.) It has been said that the only way that an active fund manager can beat his peers…
Does this article reporting that Fernandez left for personal reasons and wishes Berkowitz nothing but the best make you feel better, or not??? It also reports two new hires to help Bruce out.
http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20111019/FREE/111…
He certainly is NOT backing down from BofA or AIG. I cannot quite figure out whether it is GENIUS or HUBRIS???
He certainly makes a decent argument for buying stocks when they are on sale. But the real question might be "Is there ever a price low…
dear Catch 22,
You make a very good point about machines taking jobs away from humans. But as the saying goes "you cannot put the genie back into the bottle". I am afraid that technology is here to stay. We will never return to plowing the field…
It seems to me that the US and the ECB in Europe really only have 3 options to solve their budget problems (there are many. many variations of how to implement these, but it still boils down to these three)
1. Raise income (AKA= raise taxes, sell a…
Delafield DEFIX
Croft Value CLVFX
Fairholme FAIRX
I'm 62 years old
I still like the first two, but because FAIRX is way too big for my liking I switched about half into FAAFX (Fairholme Allocation). Both these Fairholme funds have had very di…
