Recent content by Cessna152

According to the Wikipedia bio on Fauci, he hasn’t practiced medicine in a clinical environment since 1968 (having to deal with patients.) His career forte appears to be experimental work in mostly lab environments, followed by administrative. He uses “anecdotal” in a useless pedantic sense. In...

I voted for a loss worse than 20% because so many stock valuation metrics are already high relative to past values. I felt that made it vulnerable to significant events portending bad economic repercussions. I'm not sure if the killing of Qassem Soleimani is the start of a series of such events...

There was a year zero - but it didn’t amount to anything.

Oh for pity sake W2R, would you please stop posting so quickly that you have to go back and edit your posts moments later? On your re-write you now say something about political agendas. I have no idea what that refers to. I’m outa this thread, you’ve made it personal and with you as a...

It was technically a bear market. The article is proof that some felt it could take a while to recover. That it was over so quickly that it is now difficult to remember was actually one of the OP’s points. I did not freak out at all (there being to evidence of such) and am simply trying to...

They say memory is the first thing to go when we get old, I forget the second thing. Anyway, here’s a news article from that distant era as a refresher: We are now in a bear market — here’s what that means

I think the error was writing 2019 when the OP meant late 2018.

Oh, we ain't got a barrel of money Maybe we're ragged and funny But we'll travel along singing a song Side by side Don't know what's coming tomorrow Maybe it's trouble and sorrow But we'll travel the road sharin' our load Side by side Through all kind of weather What if the sky should fall As...

Looks like I should invest in a health care industry focussed fund....

Seriously though, staying at hotels and traveling using one’s own car gives maximum flexibility when confronted with a plurality of possibilities, as you seem to want to do.

How? In a Corvette convertible of course. And don’t forget to play the right music while tooling down the road (notice where they stash their bags):

Well, on another forum I frequent where one of the female members has stated she suffers arachnophobia, the subject of intimacy came up and one wit posted this:

Check again - their systems were likely in the middle of handling the drop in price by the amount of dividend distributions that are bring paid out. Eventually you should see those funds with a flag indicating notes on distributions.

Earlier this year the FCC threatened phone companies to adopt a caller ID authentication technology known as STIR/SHAKEN. A few domestic holdouts are taking their time. Not sure how things will work with regard to international calls.

This story seemed apropos: “All My Friends Have Passed Away:” Lonely 90-Year-Old Sends Heartbreaking Letter to Her Neighbor Seeking Her Friendship