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Birchtree said:
There is only really one game left in town and TSP is part of it - stay with equities and everyone will do fine. We'll have ten years going forward for bond money to return to stocks and that power will be parabolic.
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Sounds like how everyone felt in late 2007... and...
 
Your positive attitude is starting to grow on me, birch. When the world goes to hell in a hand basket, like some project, and our paper trinkets go down the toilet - I figure you're still ahead of the game than the rest of us.

You'll have 4 million more trinkets to barter with. Toilet paper is going to be a commodity! Probably number 3 on the list after food and water for essential necessities.

C'mon, you sure you don't want to invest and buy a condo in Hawaii for your daughter? ;)
 
konakathy,

When my daughter returned from 18 months in Irag, she and her boyfriend rented a condo on Waikiki and enjoyed the good life for awhile. Tuesday she is heading to Germany for ten days to give some work related presentations. The Army trained her to be a jet setter I guess. I think the best policy for the markets is to remain positive - good things have the potential of happening.
 
We better earn as many dollars as we can because when the inflation hits from all this printing money we'll need every last one just to break even.
 
A number of years ago more than several big mouth bass on this forum were down on inflation and they were all wrong. Equities actually do reasonably well in a inflationary environment because most companies are able to raise prices to protect profits - staying long and strong as far as the eye can see.
 
Anyone want to buy bonds - join the herd. "Individual investors have pulled $137 billion out of U.S. stock mutual funds so far this year, according to Lipper. Some of that exodus has been offset by $89 billion heading into exchange traded mutual funds, which focus on U.S. stocks. But on balance investors are continuing to pull money out of stocks and putting it into bond funds, which have taken in $267 billion through late September. Investors don't seem to be processing the extent of the stock market's rally." It looks like we may finally have an up Monday - can I humbly look forward to some exciting gains for October?
 
I wish the VIX would show some weakness today - that would make me feel more comfortable with a last quarter market melt up. I believe the toasted Obama-Baloney goodbye rally remains in effect - Thursday will be real interesting and Friday could also be fun times. Be in to win.
 
My oceanic account has 13 dividends that will pay today - so weak action becomes a small blessing. Bring it. When there is no pain there is no gain.
 
There is still hope for amoeba in the next three months providing the market crashes - then he'd have outperformance. I just don't think that is going to happen but I do enjoy the negative vibes from his particular visions. Come back Shane.
 
It was a sleepy week for my oceanic account: +$0.0, +$2K, -$7K, +$60K, +$4K for a gain of +$59K. If I can make that gain or better for the next three weeks I'm a happy camper. The first two weeks in September I was ahead to the sweet tune of +$379K but ended giving much of it back over the last two weeks - so a repeat this month is not expected. I'm now at #136 on the tracker with a gain of +14.10%. It'll be hard to catch those 100% I funders unless a few of them cluck - and I'm sure they will. So I'm very much in the game as a buy and holder. Snort.
 
Congratulations on (temporarily) passing me on the Autotracker.

I now seek revenge... :toung:

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