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- Tue Apr 11, 2023 1:06 pm
- Forum: Stocks
- Topic: Active management - recent winners
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2236
Re: Active management - recent winners
Yes, there's a paywall. Would you mind telling us what particular funds were being featured? I'd be curious to look at their holdings.
- Tue Apr 11, 2023 8:26 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: How much to save for retirement
- Replies: 101
- Views: 74334
Re: How much to save for retirement
If you wanted to determine what a typical jury verdict would be in a particular case, you would need to do it systematically, based upon a review of ALL relevant verdicts in a particular jurisdiction. By "relevant verdicts," I mean verdicts arising from cases that are at least roughly comparable, bo...
- Mon Apr 10, 2023 8:45 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: How much to save for retirement
- Replies: 101
- Views: 74334
Re: How much to save for retirement
I could write volumes on the issue of tort litigation, but cutting to the chase, the idea of huge jury verdicts in nursing home cases is a myth. The one plaintiff's case in which I was involved led me to do a comprehensive review of past jury verdicts in care facilities, and the awards in even the ...
- Mon Apr 10, 2023 6:46 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: How much to save for retirement
- Replies: 101
- Views: 74334
Re: How much to save for retirement
It's hard to say how pervasive the problem is. Many nursing home residents have no one to speak for them, so when an instance of abuse or neglect comes to light, you can bet that there are many more that will never become known. And while I'm sure that the worst nursing homes are easy to identify, m...
- Sun Apr 09, 2023 6:31 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: How much to save for retirement
- Replies: 101
- Views: 74334
Re: How much to save for retirement
Another case of abuse by nursing home staff. . . https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/pieces-of-crap-two-florida-women-arrested-after-livestreaming-themselves-taunting-and-abusing-elderly-woman-with-dementia-hero-sheriff-goes-off-on-monsters-during-press-conference-announcing-t/ Very similar to ...
- Sun Apr 09, 2023 7:24 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: How much to save for retirement
- Replies: 101
- Views: 74334
Re: How much to save for retirement
The tenor of this discussion is revealing that it is not saving for retirement that is the problem; it's saving for medical care. Some questions to ponder: - Do folks over 65 really need to be on 12 different prescription drugs? - How much of what passes for medical care in the "over 65" crowd could...
- Wed Apr 05, 2023 8:29 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: How much to save for retirement
- Replies: 101
- Views: 74334
- Tue Apr 04, 2023 12:53 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: How much to save for retirement
- Replies: 101
- Views: 74334
Re: How much to save for retirement
My friend saw his mother's distress over something that was happening--enough so that he was motivated to put a tape recorder under the bed.
- Tue Apr 04, 2023 6:54 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: How much to save for retirement
- Replies: 101
- Views: 74334
Re: How much to save for retirement
The existence of those commercials indicates to me that this is a serious and ongoing problem, rather than that bad stuff doesn't happen because of the threat of lawsuits. The fact that terrible nursing homes exist would seem to indicate that the mechanism of state penalties / governor embarrassmen...
- Mon Apr 03, 2023 11:55 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: How much to save for retirement
- Replies: 101
- Views: 74334
Re: How much to save for retirement
I'd be curious to know what kinds of promises these CCRCs make with respect to quality of care. Are they definite enough that they could be reasonably enforced?
- Sat Apr 01, 2023 6:25 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: How much to save for retirement
- Replies: 101
- Views: 74334
Re: How much to save for retirement
I think we can agree that whatever the figure is, it falls significantly short of the several million dollars you would need to even begin to have choices when it comes to planning for long-term care. And for most of us who are old enough to think about these things, no amount of saving or prudent i...
- Fri Mar 31, 2023 7:54 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: I'M OUT!
- Replies: 64
- Views: 60051
Re: I'M OUT!
I would propose that it is the reserve status of the dollar that has allowed the U.S. to maintain its dominance in the international order. The reserve status of the dollar is also the reason why the U.S. has enjoyed its extraordinarily profligate standard of living and the privilege of being able t...
- Sun Mar 26, 2023 4:26 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: I'M OUT!
- Replies: 64
- Views: 60051
Re: I'M OUT!
Do geopolitics matter?
- Fri Mar 24, 2023 4:43 pm
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Re: I'M OUT!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3991
Re: I'M OUT!
Well, if I felt confident that they would save me, I wouldn't be an anxious mess.
- Fri Mar 24, 2023 1:17 pm
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Re: I'M OUT!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3991
Re: I'M OUT!
There are certain things that are indisputably different this time. And simple mathematics says that there WILL be a time of reckoning. The question is whether the government, which has so far managed to keep the ball in the air by injecting incomprehensible amounts of liquidity into the markets, by...
- Fri Mar 24, 2023 11:50 am
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Re: I'M OUT!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3991
Re: I'M OUT!
The thing is. . . Not a one of the other three asset classes looks rosy--or even safe.flyingpylon wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2023 11:10 amThis is pretty much what I've been wondering. Is this not just a case of one of the asset classes being out of favor currently?
- Fri Mar 24, 2023 8:28 am
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Re: I'M OUT!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3991
Re: I'M OUT!
I am grateful for the "thinking outside the box" that occurs on this forum. When I look at what's going on over at the Boglehead site, they're still just lumping along telling each other to "stay the course." Who knows, they may be right in the end, but for now the idea of putting on blinders just m...
- Thu Mar 23, 2023 10:13 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: I'M OUT!
- Replies: 64
- Views: 60051
Re: I'M OUT!
I'm really sorry, you guys. I'm just feel incredibly defeated about what's happening, and last night it was really getting to me. It's the long bonds that are the real nut-buster. They're down over 30 percent, and even after reading Tyler's piece, I still don't see a plausible path to recovery. And ...
- Thu Mar 23, 2023 8:01 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: ChatGPT and what it means for our future
- Replies: 135
- Views: 44523
Re: ChatGPT and what it means for our future
Absolutely classic!Mark Leavy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 9:14 pmBut a few times I've gotten a long rambling email from the girlfriend and I couldn't make heads nor tails of it. I asked the AI to break it into relevant bullet points, summarize the points and suggest a response.
- Wed Mar 22, 2023 8:00 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: I'M OUT!
- Replies: 64
- Views: 60051
I'M OUT!
For over a year now, I've been asking the question, "Could Harry have anticipated this?" I'm referring primarily to the extraordinarily reckless manner in which the dollar's reserve status has been abused, to the resulting distortions in the financial markets, and to the chaotic bufoonery by which t...
- Tue Mar 21, 2023 6:23 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Silicon Valley Bank Failure
- Replies: 130
- Views: 346748
Re: Silicon Valley Bank Failure
The only thing I can think of to do is to split your money between multiple banks and credit unions. Because credit unions are insured by an entirely different entity with different rules, and because credit unions are typically exposed to a somewhat different set of risks, that kind of diversificat...
- Tue Mar 21, 2023 4:29 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Silicon Valley Bank Failure
- Replies: 130
- Views: 346748
- Mon Mar 20, 2023 6:16 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Silicon Valley Bank Failure
- Replies: 130
- Views: 346748
Re: Silicon Valley Bank Failure
It's fraud because what the bank says to a given demand depositor is effectively, "We will hold your demand deposits for safe keeping, and we promise to make them available to you for withdrawal immediately at any time." They don't mention the potential actions of "every single depositor", because ...
- Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:13 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Silicon Valley Bank Failure
- Replies: 130
- Views: 346748
Re: Silicon Valley Bank Failure
The current debt load in unmaintainable unless there is significant inflation. If the government were at all concerned about its debt load, it wouldn't be cranking the printing presses 24/7 to fund the most frivolous stuff imaginable. There's something else going on here, and it has the feel of a p...
- Sun Mar 19, 2023 7:25 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Silicon Valley Bank Failure
- Replies: 130
- Views: 346748
Re: Silicon Valley Bank Failure
Let's see. . . You lend $250,000 to the bank. You get virtually no return on your money and become an unsecured creditor of the bank--subordinate to shareholders and secured creditors. Sounds like a good deal to me.