Comments for Bear Beats

Comment on I hate admitting that I’m wrong. by Amelia

Amelia — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:54:44 +0000

You’re not always wrong. Just…regularly.

Comment on Socialized medicine buys guns for crazy old people by Amelia

Amelia — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:13:43 +0000

And this is for all of those libertarian-except-I-like-SOME-things-the-government-funds-when-they’re-services-I-use (like the bus!) dudes:

Might maybe possibly sometime in the future pay for handguns. Not right now. Not in the forseeable future. You don’t need to worry.

Medicare = healthcare for people ages 65 and older. No matter how hard they worked for their retirement, what happens when they retire and lose their health insurance? You and I don’t qualify for private health insurance; why would they? And could they afford it? We couldn’t.

You have no reason to believe that a bunch of ill retirees are trying to steal your tax money.

Comment on There is no recession! by Amelia

Amelia — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:04:21 +0000

You might like this: http://foolmonkey.livejournal.com/130331.html

Comment on Why gold is a bad investment. by Bear

Bear — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:19:47 +0000

Yes, this is true. This is why I don’t invest in stocks. I invest in mutual funds. With a mutual fund, I’m paying someone to buy and sell stocks for me so I don’t have to lose any sleep if one company sinks. Since a mutual fund has several stocks within it, it is unlikely that there would be a significant change since the risk is distributed among different stocks. Honestly, gold is not really an investment, it is more in line with speculation, and that’s not something I’d do with the stock market. I’ll stick with my mutual funds.

Comment on Why gold is a bad investment. by Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:56:54 +0000

How many companies from 1801 are still in business though? That’s the problem I have with stocks…. The companies, or their stock, could disappear overnight. Gold, or other commodities, are tangible and will still exist in 10 or 100 years.

Comment on Why gold is a bad investment. by Bear

Bear — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:19:12 +0000

Sure thing! But only in good growth-stock mutual funds with at least a good 10 year track record. Time is the reason you invest, if you’re not willing to wait on it, it’s not worth investing. The stock market has averaged 12% growth per year for the last 70+ years and 97% of mutual funds make money over a 5 year period. That’s not to say that it grows 12% each year, but that it might be down one year, up another, and up even more the next and since you’re investing for the long haul you end up winning.

Here’s something else that’s interesting:
“In the book, Stocks for the Long Run, Jeremy Segall has a graph that shows what would have happened to a single dollar invested in gold, bonds and stocks since 1801.

One dollar invested in bonds in 1801 would yield $13,975 today.
One dollar invested in stocks in 1801 would be worth $8.8 million today.
One dollar invested in gold in 1801 would be worth $14 today.”

Comment on Why gold is a bad investment. by Karl

Karl — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:14:54 +0000

You put your money in the stock market instead? See www.coininfo.com

Comment on Los idiomas que querría aprender. (Languages I’d Like to learn.) by Amelia

Amelia — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:22:28 +0000

Well on your way to being WHAT? I think you chopped off the ending of your post.

Comment on NCSoft’s “Wonderful” customer support by Amelia

Amelia — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:27:03 +0000

No entries in almost three months?

Comment on Growing stupidity. by Bear

Bear — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:21:51 +0000

Yeah, it’s meant to say “your performance,” and that’s the problem with it. The point was to acknowledge the idiocy of the usage of “you’re” when it should have been “your.”