Yup, as a fellow Chicagoan, can definitely attest to it basically being an oasis in a HUGE desert of Trumpers (and hell, look at the county-by-county results if you need to be sobered on Illinois as a whole).

“You tanked her and Obama’s platform with Bernie’s education plan for your dogwhistle bullshit.”

The “Left” doesn’t need to go anywhere. It remains correct on the issues, but for a lot of reasons, many not her fault, but some were, Hillary was not the messenger for this election.

This, this, this. People are shit-talking FiveThirtyEight because they checked FiveThirtyEight 10 times a day for four months, but it’s just a sophisticated data aggregator (and one that did a fine job hedging about the possibility the data were wrong).

Agree. Marquette, for example, had Clinton up by 6 in Wisconsin. That was very off. The national polls were slightly off (other than LA Times, which was completely off), but not by much. Once the popular vote is fully counted, it looks like Clinton will win the national popular vote by about 1.5%.

These traitors owed it to their country to at least give Trump a chance. Grow up, fish.

Yea and they are costing you a lot of money to do that for you. Low cost index funds are best. You can get them in REITs, Bonds, international markets, in things like gold. The longer you wait the more you lose. I had to wait because a house was more important since biology doesn’t wait and I wanted to start a…

Low cost index funds are a good place to start. Stay away from anything complicated and you should be fine.

If you attribute their actions to destabilizing America and casting American democracy in a poor light, the active Trump campaign would be the next logical step. Push us into an embarrassment of a president because the others looked so bad, expose that guy as truly terrible too.. Geez, those Americans can’t do…

First, the flippant answer: you’re on track to retire at 55 and upset by that? Second, assuming you shift a lot of your cash to something with a higher yield like low-cost index funds or something else from Vanguard, I think you’re a lot further ahead than you think. Try filling this out:

Like everyone else said, go talk to some experts. You’re making several common misconceptions, which is fine! That’s why they’re common! But a diversified portfolio (and time) will protect you. Also, your 401(k) can be a great primary retirement fund and be protected from market swings as your get closer to…

Where I grew up a majority of the time, this was not the case. Everyone was bused each way, Black into White, and white into Black neighborhoods. Now lots of white people moved to the adjacent city where this was not happening, but there was an effort made.

For many years, I taught Melba Beals’s Warriors Don’t Cry. (Back in 1957, when she was Melba Pattillo, she was one of the “Little Rock Nine,” a group of nine African American students who attempted to integrate Little Rock Central High School in September of that year.) If you’ve never read the book, I recommend it…

You can read her thoughts right now. She is published and she is still alive.

I’d star the Vanguard commenter a thousand times. Setup a monthly contribution to a fund like VFINX, and totally forget about it! It sounds like you’re investing for the long haul, so don’t watch it or think about moves to make. Seriously, trying to time the market does not work.

What gets to me is that they made little black kids deal with the entire brunt of ‘desegregation’... putting them into lily white spaces where they were threatened and hated. I put ‘desegregation’ in quotes because it’s not what happened — they never, ever considered bussing their little blond Susie McBeckerson into …

Honestly sounds like you are too tunnel vision with your investments. You may want to talk with an investment firm and diversify your investments through them. Mutual Funds are your best bet over time you will come out ahead, it may not be today or tomorrow but over time you will average with more than you put in. The…

Target date funds or a simple ETF/MF allocation. Sure, you’d rather buy low, but you’ll get dividends and if you steadily invest through downturns you’ll reap the benefits of dollar cost averaging.

Yeah. Plan A is savings, 401k, and pension; Plan B is working forever.

You got burned on a highly specific trade that isn’t one you should be making without hedges and diversification. Rather than mutual funds, maybe you just need to think about more straightforward ETFs. Maybe a basket of SPY sector indexes and periodically rebalance (which ends up working like dollar cost averaging).…