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That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
My husband has a retirement account with Fidelity. He gets about two phone calls per year from someone (never the same voice) who says he is an adviser for Fidelity assigned to his pension fund. The callers may or may not be who they claim to be. I …
Well, I'll avoid the sad chuckle that was the FEHBP (federal employee) open season this year as seniors got what they wanted, a self+1 plan, so they could avoid pregnancy payments and large families. Sad that it blew up in their face with (mostly) e…
I apologize in advance for this interruption in a "Fund Discussion".
This may not be very investment savvy but I am getting a bit tired of not raising the rates following the perpetual tease of "raising the rate". Now all I want is for them to rais…
PressmUp, Help this poor ignorant liberal. Who exactly is "the GOP" that is putting up a fight? A fight against who? - registered Republican primary voters?
Maybe we MFOers should crowd-source funding for one of these, with the revenue to support MFO, of course.
Won't Amazon fill the vacuum and have UDS (United Drone Service) deliver my pain fix with my new tennis shoes?
Am I the only crazy one to think that Detroit has a better idea?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/12/drive-pot-shops-worry-officials-detroit/72156168/
and so it goes,
peace,
rono
Thanks rono, you are a dear. Now I understand tha…
Yes, pesticide and roaches do bring up similar memories of continuous battles to this ex-Mississippi girl. To the original question - one is left thinking that at least the no-fly keeps automatic weapons sold to people on the list from getting past …
Yea, Dex, In fact I've been talking to my husband about all this male violence. I contend that the world would be better off without men. I am starting a campaign to arm every woman in America in order to kill off the men thus saving the country fro…
statist
A statist is a man who believes that some men have the right to force, coerce, enslave, rob, and murder others. To be put into practice, this belief has to be implemented by the political doctrine that the government—the state—has the right …
And don't forget that if your entire life is stored at OPM, someone might just hit that SHARE button at the top of the database.
But Crash, are those cameras aimed so that they can pick up pin numbers?
Among the things that I am thankful this Thanksgiving is Mutual Fund Observer. As more a lurker than contributor, I too thank everyone who contributes. Thanks, especially, to Dave Snowball, Charles, Accipter, chip, Charles, Ted, and others who go th…
Well, maybe now we have some company to use to set an example for drug negotiation and demand a better price than the Euro nations get. And let the Euro countries worry about their research funds.
I was wondering about this. The marketplace is similar to the Federal Employees Health Benefit (FEHB) Plan (FEHBP) today.
You see FEHB is the "best healthcare blah, blah" in the world. And it is excellent but expensive. It is a grocery store with m…
Where is the Soros statement. No discussion of America is complete without it. So let me set this thread on the right track.
SOROS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOROS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOROS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Are the Clintons the next Soro…
Scott, I guess I'm not clever enough to get the joke. Please 'splain.
Others, If you really know the genre of SciFi, have they tried to envision this new world (aside from stuff like that ho, hum Will Smith movie which didn't focus on it). Or is ma…
OJ, 'Tis a problem that gets worse every year. My husband goes RMD next year and then me in 2018 and my mattresses are full to overflowing without any cozy comfort at all. Even the utility room storage cabinets are already full. Where do I put it? M…
msf, You know what they say about the fungiblity of money and unintended consequences. CPBB is a champion for protecting the poor and I usually hang on every word but as far as I can tell from your link, they are supporting a tax on middle class pen…
Well, Lewis, all I can say is this old lady has a bad ticker and "be still my heart" but I managed to open your thread before the ambulance came.
Everyone - thanks for this issue!
It seems that people no longer want to be part of any country that doesn't do precisely what they want it to do. So I wonder if people care about the reserves anymore. I also wonder if the assumptions that are used to determination the reserve size …
There's a new word I just learned at "The Big Picture":
"Agnotology: Culturally constructed ignorance, purposefully created by special interest groups working hard to create confusion and suppress the truth."
Gary, Gary, Gary, Were you asleep during the Clinton/Gore gutting of the civil service???? As far as admin costs (which probably should be normalized if looked at historically. I suggest you could use per retiree corrected for bureaucratic productiv…
Gary, The government cannot hold money in a mattress. Any entitlement surpluses are usually held as government securities/bonds, better known in this century as IOUs. If you want to see what the OASI program holds as of the last trustee's report, he…
Down is the wrong direction. Once the median is reduced we can argue that the group above it are exceptional. Again and again and again until being above the median means you are cold but not hungry. So what's the point?
I hope they start 2 for the price of 1 sales and Thanksgiving free turkey farm stock.
I want some of that $25 B-H stock. Is that partial shares or do I have to add my own money to buy the gift?
Sigh, North, South, East, West, Left, Right, Up, Down, On, Off,,,, No one really wants change except by their perspective of alignment of results. If people agree so much that a problem exists, why don't they harp on the problem and call for solutio…
