Panskeptic

State Street's International Small Cap ETF: Crawling SPDR With Potential

I misunderstood nothing. Smicklas can have a global view of investing and a parochial view of everything else. The Republicans are against big government because they have no idea what to do with it, except enrich themselves and their cronies.

You know, it's not a bad thing that a politician with money concerns him- or herself with the least fortunate. Must they be selfish and only defend their class? Comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted? Or are they allowed to actually figure out how to help children, seniors, folks who are being kept down so a small handful of well-connected bastards can prosper? The idea that you can only defend those in your own tax bracket is poisonous, and is wrecking this country.

I'd rather have Big Brother helping the helpless than giving our tax dollars to the top 1%. It's called reverse wealth transfer, and we've surely had too much of that.

If Smicklas doesn't want us discussing this stuff, he should have omitted his coy preamble and just written about the ETF. I presume he'll be more careful in future. This year may not be the best time to invest in European small/midcaps. I'd sure place a bid way under where it's trading right now.

State Street's International Small Cap ETF: Crawling SPDR With Potential

"a slow descent into a victim-centric redistribution of wealth mentality?"
Astute minds, my foot. What kind of silliness is this?

Yes, there are other people in the world that may occasionally impinge on one's own narrow greed, but we are not alone in our countinghouse, and our cultural heritage implies that we are to a degree our brother's keeper.

The New Selfishness is no different from the Old. Please stick to investment commentary and spare us the whining about 1) having to share the planet with other people who may not care to be bossed around by us, and 2) sharing our country with some people not well off enough to require investment advice.