How's your portfolio?

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Heh I have 20% in an S&P index, 5% in an S&P enhanced index. I never looked until you posted that silly chart.

Things are looking good for us to retire once the kid hits college, provided my wife doesn't become a director or some silly thing.

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S&P 500 at an all time high.
Dow Jones Industrials near an all time high
Good jobs report (110,000 new jobs created).
Interest rates low.
Now, where are the libs to tell us how bad the economy is.

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Wait for it.....

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What portfolio? I cashed mine out to start a new business, now I get to start again. When I make money, which may be awhile...quite awhile.

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From about 9/11 to about 2003 it looked like my retirement was passing out of sight over the horizon. Now it looks like I am STILL going to be able to retire at a reasonable age and amount of time. The dip (if that's all it was) put me back about a year is all.

But it did force me to diversify into international markets and small caps, which I hadn't done previously. I'm still about 30% into S&P mutual (down from 60%).

All of my 401K is in mutual funds and except about 10% fed bonds (guaranteed). My other investments are significantly riskier but right now make me look like a freaking genius.

Think this is a burp-bubble or are we back on a growth track?

Bot

Damn, that looks like bubble material. Didn't the indexes look pretty good at various points in '29? Wasn't that in the days when the free market had better sway than now?

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I have no idea. Perhaps you can bring education to the masses on that subject. Ever heard of those geniuses Smoot and Hawley? That's your free trade in action. And there's a good place to start in educating us about the great depression and how things are similar.

Sometimes the market goes up. Sometimes the market goes down.

Make money by investing (AKA "betting") on one direction or the other.

Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets.

B

up n down, up n down, in n out.....

the stuff I read in the local paper and wall street journal would have one expect a possible dip in the near future.

my stuff in indexed on the S&P also.

fingers crossed.

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I'm not real familiar with the Great Depression and whies and wherefors it's true. It is interesting that the Pres. who managed to shepherd us out of it and who dramatically improved the treatment of returned combat vets has been maligned for years by people devoted, in near religious manner, to the free market.

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Ohhh,you mean "Rosenfeld" as the far right Capitalists{I,E,Thiefs}called him.

The nerve of that guy, faking like he could walk and betraying his class all the while.

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Speaking of faith-based opinions.

Oh well, life is short, can't be astute on every detail of everything. Nonetheless, one can grasp many bits and pieces just by accident.

I believe math is the only pure science, correct me if I'm wrong, and that's because it exists only in the mind, in strictly theoretical form.

This business of clinging to 'free market' with an aggressive vengeance reminds me (I said this somewhere else recently, oh well) of some fanatical Stalinist who turns in his next door neighbor for selling a few onions for the equivalent of 50 cents.

"Ve Vill NOT have capitalism destroying the sanctity of the People's Socialist Republic!"

All the anxiety about socialized medicine overlooks, in my view, the probable fact that we are going to have de facto socialized medicine from hell for the foreseeable future, in the form of indigent people cramming emergency rooms, to get care that could have been had for pennies on the dollar with some sort of triage based community clinics.

It's hard to imagine people sitting still for po' folk dying miserable deaths in the street while others get expensive cosmetic surgery and multiple transplants in order to extract a few more years of life from an abused body. This is not India.

Free market is the way to go in about 90 to 95% of endeavors in our land but trying to cram every damn thing into some theory is just whack.

We now have a free market medical system with one of its prime aims being to avoid sick people. S'plain the wisdom of that one to me.

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1984 300D, 138K

It's a crap shoot I tell ya.

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