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We have been raising our prices but we're not able to raise them to the end user as aggressively as our input costs are rising. For the past 1-2 years, labor expenses have been rising much faster than our pricing to the end user. At a certain point, hopefully household wages have risen enough...

No, our input costs are going up and operating profits going down in the past year.

This is definitely worth watching, IMO. I am seeing signs of inflation ramping up in my business.

China slowing their treasury purchases simply means our trade deficit with China is reducing. Relax.

If you’re right it would be a great buying opportunity for all the perma bears who’ve missed on all the gains so far!

What are they going to do with all their $USD from their trade surplus with us? They have three choices: 1- Hold dollars 2- Buy US treasuries 3- Buy more stuff from the US It really doesn’t matter as long as they want to maintain a trade surplus, they will either support our treasury market...

Could have influenced it a little, but let's face it, the market has melted up for some time now. Eventually a correction is due. Also, the GDP forecasts and actual wage growth (2.9%) are big enough to cause worry about the FED raising rates to cool it down.

I get what you're saying and largely agree. An all out civil war/regime change is probably the only way to break the cycle because the corruption is soaked into the governmental infrastructure. There's probably no way to do this, without foreign involvement and/or bloodshed.

No kidding. What a joke. The entire country has a long standing culture of bribery and corruption. It's too bad too, because the normal citizens of Mexico are very good people. They deserve better than their leadership has given them.

For long term portfolios, you can't do better than Vanguard Admiral mutual funds

DXJ would be an example. Japan ETF hedged for Yen exposure

Risk and time frame are all relative to each individual's needs. 10% seems really light for a long term portfolio, but if you need the money and can't afford a large loss, then 10-20% is probably maximum.

Why doesn’t WB with the help of other limousine liberals set up a non profit insurance company for the uninsured using their own funds? Talk is cheap. These guys love to spend other people’s money while growing their own wealth.

If you’re averaging in and building a portfolio over the long term, super low cost no-load mutual funds at houses like Vanguard, Fidelity, etc are hard to beat. There are several brokers that allow you to purchase no fee ETF’s as well, but they’re often paired up with low volume ETF providers...

Wow

If that's your opinion of Soros, then we will have to leave it at that because I think he is quite possibly the most evil man on the planet. He is directly funding death and destruction in the US and in many parts of Europe. To leftists like Soros and yourself, freedom and peace generally...

How is that surprising? In the last 16 years we've completely destabilized the entire Middle East. It's clear that both the Republicans (McCain/Graham/Rubio/Bush) and the Dems (Obama/Clinton/Soros/MSM/CIA) have been building a case to go to war with Russia. Syria will be used to get into a...

Haha, maybe because the people "in the industry" have a vested interest in higher oil prices

We have generations of oil in the United States. I agree it's going lower long term.