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[quote=Rich Toscano][quote=flu][quote=masayako]It is not wise to go all cash. Don’t time to market. Nobody can do it accurately. A smart thing to do is stay invested.[/quote]

you would have singing a different tune if things went the other way. just saying…[/quote]

I don’t see why he would be. He’s saying that guessing about short term market moves is not a good investing approach. I don’t see why that opinion should change on the basis of one correct guess.[/quote]Because although one might not want to time the market, one should also constantly assess risk/reward. This past election is one of those event where we can do just that. I went 95%+ in cash because there was a big uncertainty. It can go horrible wrong like the Brexit and the market can be down a lot. It’s always best to sit in cash and wait. Especially if the immediate upside isn’t as great. I did buy back into the market the day after the election, seeing that the 1000 point lost in early trading goes positive at opening bell.

This is very similar to people who sell their house in 2005-2008.

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[quote=FlyerInHi]Im surprised free market advocates would fall behind such plans.[/quote]Fall in line as in not trying to impeach him? Which free market advocates likes this? If they do, they’re probably not a true free market advocate to start with.

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The $50B announcement from Softbank today w/ Trump is pretty cool. Hopefully this will be a long term bull run.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/07/technology/foxconn-us-investment/index.html?iid=hp-stack-dom
flu, if this continues, it seems like it might be a golden age for tech start up. Between stuff like this and potential repatriation tax holiday, I feel like there will be a lot of $$ sloshing around, looking for start ups fund.

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[quote=masayako][quote=flu][quote=masayako]It is not wise to go all cash. Don’t time to market. Nobody can do it accurately. A smart thing to do is stay invested.[/quote]

you would have singing a different tune if things went the other way. just saying…[/quote]

True, probably. I still wouldn’t sell, would probably buy more shares when it dropped. Admit failure is the first step to success.[/quote]
But if you stayed invested, then where would you get the cash to buy more?

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Another wave of worker replacement is coming soon: http://www.recode.net/2016/12/5/13842892/amazon-go-grocery-store-no-lines-cashier-paying. You’re talking millions of cash register people will be replaced by software and hardware.

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[quote=flu]looks like it was intentional…
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/nation-world/ct-donald-trump-taiwan-call-20161204-story.html%5B/quote%5D
Must be intentional ignorance as Brian would like to say. He planned for months to be ignorance.

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[quote=spdrun]

LoL, how many kids do you have spd?

None, but I don’t want to pay tax to send some other idiot’s sprogs to a fundie Christian, Jewish, Muslim, etc school where they’ll be taught what some superstitious freak wants them to learn, vs scientific facts. Then pay more for their welfare when they can’t get into college or get a paying job in the real world.

Ta hell with using gov’t money to pay for the idiocy of fundie freaks.[/quote]
Too bad. You’re SOL. You’re already paying for crappy public school that can’t get into college already. So, nothing new. LoL.

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[quote=bearishgurl][quote=AN][quote=bearishgurl]AN, if you live in an attendance area of excellent public schools, what do you have against them? Do you currently have any kids attending public school in your neighborhood?

If not, how do you know your public school will offer a sub-par education for them?[/quote]
I have nothing against them. I just like the private school I sent my kid to better. I have my kid going from private to public, so I know exactly what both system provide.

I never say anything about sub-par.[/quote]Is your kid currently attending public school … or are they still at their private school?[/quote]
Both.

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[quote=bearishgurl]AN, if you live in an attendance area of excellent public schools, what do you have against them? Do you currently have any kids attending public school in your neighborhood?

If not, how do you know your public school will offer a sub-par education for them?[/quote]
I have nothing against them. I just like the private school I sent my kid to better. I have my kid going from private to public, so I know exactly what both system provide.

I never say anything about sub-par.

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[quote=flu][quote=AN][quote=flu]
At public dollar expenses!!!!! Voucher systems could land you in a private school that isn’t required to use common core math. lol.

Actually, I was talking about common core math with a bunch of parents recently. A lot of the parents that had older siblings were complaining about how the younger sibling, now a product of common core math, were well behind their siblings when they were at the same grade level. Some at the 5th grade level, still can’t do basic arithmetic, even some of the teachers mentioned it.

We never quite bought into to CCM and just did it the old school math and old school problem solving, and played lip service to the N-different ways of solving one problem, drawing a nice pretty diagram, etc. Looks like it ended getting better results. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But those are some pretty good 4-5 different “strategies” that kids come up with to solve the problem. Too bad, in most cases, none of those strategies helped kids reach the correct answer.[/quote]Public $ is already being spent on my kids’ education. If anything, I’ll be saving some tax $, since the private school I want to send my kids to charge less than what we’re paying to educate my kids in the public school.

As for common core. I actually don’t mind. I think it’s good for them to understand multiple ways to come to the same solution. I’m making my kids to the math drill that you and I did. I view that this will expand their breath in ways of learning math. That’s what my kids teacher convey as well, where we should do the math drills at home so they know the basic and what they get taught at school is more breath.[/quote]

I agree on your first part. And the voucher system would be a very interesting and compelling thing…I wonder how much tuition to Bishop school would be 🙂

I’m not totally against common core. I just don’t think the way it’s taught is useful for most kids, as it adds confusion than anything else.
But that’s just me.[/quote]I totally agree with your feeling about CCM. My kid going from Singapore math at his private school to CCM math, he was confused for awhile and have to adjust. He has to regress from doing multiplication back to addition. However, while doing that, I do see that he didn’t really know addition as well as I thought he should. Which is a surprised to me but am glad that I see that. But he finally got a hang of it now and is exceling at it. While helping him, I do see the advantage of CCM.

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[quote=flu]
Mine’s been malfunctioning since Trump won and the dow reversed course….
Can I borrow yours? Your’s seem to be working very well these days. I’m serious… You’re on a roll :)[/quote]LoL, I wish mine works as well as you think it is.

As for voucher, I’m freaking giddy like a kid who just got their Christmas gift early at the thought of the possibility of getting a voucher system in place w/in the next year or two.

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[quote=flu]
At public dollar expenses!!!!! Voucher systems could land you in a private school that isn’t required to use common core math. lol.

Actually, I was talking about common core math with a bunch of parents recently. A lot of the parents that had older siblings were complaining about how the younger sibling, now a product of common core math, were well behind their siblings when they were at the same grade level. Some at the 5th grade level, still can’t do basic arithmetic, even some of the teachers mentioned it.

We never quite bought into to CCM and just did it the old school math and old school problem solving, and played lip service to the N-different ways of solving one problem, drawing a nice pretty diagram, etc. Looks like it ended getting better results. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But those are some pretty good 4-5 different “strategies” that kids come up with to solve the problem. Too bad, in most cases, none of those strategies helped kids reach the correct answer.[/quote]Public $ is already being spent on my kids’ education. If anything, I’ll be saving some tax $, since the private school I want to send my kids to charge less than what we’re paying to educate my kids in the public school.

As for common core. I actually don’t mind. I think it’s good for them to understand multiple ways to come to the same solution. I’m making my kids to the math drill that you and I did. I view that this will expand their breath in ways of learning math. That’s what my kids teacher convey as well, where we should do the math drills at home so they know the basic and what they get taught at school is more breath.

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[quote=bearishgurl][quote=AN][quote=bearishgurl][quote=AN]flu, she’s actually not anti-common core. Although, she’s not pro-common core either. So, I’m assuming she can be swayed one way or the other. But the biggest thing about her is that she push for private school voucher. That would be F*cking AWESOME if she can get it done before 2017-2018 school year.[/quote]AN, I thought you previously posted here that you live in an attendance area of awesome public schools![/quote]Not as awesome as the private school my kids could be going to.[/quote]You DO realize that “school vouchers” will only pay a portion of private school tuition (unless they are Catholic or Protestant – Grades 1-8 only, which tend to be less expensive). I would surmise that you will only receive 1/3 to 1/4 of the tuition from a voucher to pay for any non-denominational well-known private school in SD and possibly only enough to pay 1/5 to 1/6 of the (exorbitant) tuition for private HS through your kid(s) voucher.[/quote]Wow, your crystal ball is working that well?

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[quote=spdrun]Vouchers are horrible — the goal should be to make good, local, public education available to all Americans. Not to let public schools further deteriorate while giving parents vouchers, where they need to pay EXTRA money for a decent private school.

Also, vouchers play into the hands of religious asshats who don’t want their sproglets learning about evil-lution, globull warming, and birth control methods. Everyone should have a strong grounding in math, science, literature, history, etc without it being marred by their parents’ idea of some fruitcake fairy up in the sky.[/quote]LoL, how many kids do you have spd?

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[quote=bearishgurl][quote=AN]flu, she’s actually not anti-common core. Although, she’s not pro-common core either. So, I’m assuming she can be swayed one way or the other. But the biggest thing about her is that she push for private school voucher. That would be F*cking AWESOME if she can get it done before 2017-2018 school year.[/quote]AN, I thought you previously posted here that you live in an attendance area of awesome public schools![/quote]Not as awesome as the private school my kids could be going to.

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