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That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
GAWD, I'm ready for the criminal clown-show in Washington to end! I suppose the courts will have a lot to do with it. Dare I hope for an EARLY termination to the Trumpster's madness? The Emperor's wearing no clothes. Can the SENATE see that yet? YET…
I was wondering how TSP funds (target date) were doing ytd.
@ johnN : can you help me out as you're a TSP user?
Thanks , Derf
FedSmith site has the YTD summary in a chart a little less than half…
I turned 70 a few days ago. My SS increased 430% and I need it since, what with RMD and stuff, my taxes for 2019 are up 250% over what they were in 2018. As of Friday I was down 1.11% from high this year leaving .78% gain thus far this year. Holding…
I thought he may have been thinking of harvesting lingonberries. When I was staying in Umea, Sweden with some friends, they showed me a hand tool/rake they used to go under the trees in the forests to pick lingonberries. Here's a stand up type which…
When I graduated I landed a prestigious job that impressed everyone. My graduate advisor came in one day when no one else was around and said something to the effect that he admitted I was one of the smartest women he had met but, face it, the brigh…
The FED, champions of bond and CD purchasers and devils to loan speculators. Don't you imagine the market will just have a bit of a hissy fit and then resume the climb. I do wonder if part of the allure of small rates with inflation is a correction …
Makes me wonder how many trillion in "potential assets at retirement" are lost due to the billions (trillions?) that aren't invested in the first place. It puzzled me how many people I worked with did not save to the match much less saving more to t…
I wonder what the average net worth is in Medina, Washington? Both Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates live there?
The first hit on Google "median net worth Medina Washington gave:
https://www.point2homes.com/US/Neighborhood/WA/Medina-Demographics.html
Avera…
I will always think of Paulson as the guy who took a low paying job in order to enjoy helping initiate the demise of Social Security and Medicare but ended up initiating efforts to save his own lucrative job along with that of his private buddies.
Thanks everyone. I might be back after I mull it over. (My problem is I have always felt people overreact to these reports and wondered myself if we would be better off with less of them. But it is hard for me to consider information as a bad thing.)
I don't understand how a missing quarterly reports will "boost business" or "create jobs". @Ted - help me here. Do you find quarterly reports as detrimental to business and jobs. If so, why? What is the mechanism for missing reports to play into the…
Makes me wonder how the tax program vendors are coping and how much they will need to increase their prices if the information store is so, well, "messed" up.
Just paging through the discussions the last post with zero comments I found was July 28, two weeks ago today. I don't know if that means anything though.
@Anna, Admire the skillful wordsmithing evident through your lengthier piece
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wordsmithThe wordsmith's job is to make up bullshit on the spot.
?. OK.
@AndyJ "Agree. It can't be that hard to do, given that M* does it. "
I can tell the software developers from the MBAs at MFO. No need to modify the software again. The people who own this site treat us like kings but that's no reason to treat them …
Like chit-chat, TV, and video games, they are useful for fill the, otherwise, lengthy daylight hours of the extremely bored reader who longs to feel he/she is doing research and maintaining expertise.
But fun too.
I must admit that I think it will be good for some of the people born before civil rights to be gone. I grew up in MS Delta. The ratio of black to white even in the 50s was higher than average. The economy was such that all but the poorest whites co…
Trump = spooge.
Love the Internet; I found myself ignorant of the meaning of "spooge" and suspecting you meant Scrooge or something else, I sought the meaning of spooge. Maybe you meant spooge?
Noun. spooge (usually uncountable, plural spooges) Any …
Why shouldn't I just consider Putin and Trump to be two frat boys that suddenly found themselves with the power to just push buttons with no personal consequence in order to amuse themselves at other people/institutions expense. Kind of like a juven…
Hi crash... I gave Penfed... Very reason ble credit card and good ratecar/mortgage loans to borrow from fwiw
I received a maturity notice from PenFed yesterday. They emphasized their new early withdrawal penalty:
The penalty in the first year is al…
Thanks guys. I guess it is the way my thinking works. I immediately formed a picture of asking my brother-in-law in Oregon to manage my large Internet purchases by making an Oregon purchase as a gift to be delivered to me in Washington. Oregon is an…
