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That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
I am retired and age 65. I delayed mine to smooth my husband's finances if I should die because he loses his SS and half my pension when I die and he switches to my SS. With the increase due to my delay his income will be just a tad above our income…
"Asked how he thinks he could, if elected, get lawmakers to approve a plan in what is a Republican-controlled General Assembly, Myers said it's “a good question,” adding that seniors and others would demand it as the public increasingly becomes awar…
Reply to @Accipiter: I agree. The original idea has the problem that if most people ask for a list of all threads with at least 2 posts, few threads will get that second post. I suspect that once people realize this, they won't use a new filter butt…
My 403b withdrawal of about $18K/year is subject to a 20% tax withholding. In my case it just lowers my quarterly tax payments.
However, everything has a million views. It might be beneficial to download TaxAct (or another) free version and look at…
Reply to @scott: Sigh, they always take the fun out, don't they. I wonder if anyone traded their gold for bitcoins.
Oh, give me gold, lots of gold under sealed vaults below
Bitcoin me in
Let me dive through high piles of coins I love
Bitcoin me …
You know rono, I've been thinking. Bitcoins are a lot lighter weight and easier to store than gold. But, what would you do for door stops? (Disclosure - last time I had such thoughts was during the gold rush; rono got rich and I just got left with t…
Reply to @rono: Well, the good news is that a few selected individuals will end up sitting on thrones once the unwashed masses are finally put back in their proper place.
Party on, dear friends, the end is near.
PenFed has gone from a one quarter to a one year withdrawal penalty. They seem to think rates will increase quite a bit. No problem, I'm still putting together a small package for a 5year. Wish some of my existing 1.5% 3 year were coming to term. I …
Reply to @davidrmoran: The one past performance you can rely on is the success of finance writers in recycling stupid themes at least once a year (per writer).
David, chip & co,
Microsoft downloaded and installed ie11 on my computer last night. I have had major problems this morning (not MFO problems). But, I was logged out of MFO so I tried to log back in. When I did, the sign-in produced a http: pop-…
Reply to @Junkster:
I think when the guys lose their Congress jobs, they just move on to their promised $1M+/year lobby, contractor, ... jobs. I know they act like reelection is important but I sometimes wonder why they want to keep a job that the…
I guess I don't see how he says the US innovation machine is not broken. Or rather, I don't see how the type of innovations we have now bring growth and prosperity to Main Street.
Reply to @MaxBialystock: Yes, Max, it does detract from the ambience of MFO and disrupt the discussion. I am quite sick of seeing it and try to ignore (which is the best thing I guess). However, to the extent that someone is discouraged from posting…
I went directly to www.crossingwallstreet.com and didn't encounter any problems. (There is a StockTwits banner but I didn't see a redirect.)
Anyway here is the table:
Sector Gain
Discretionary 289.72%
Financials 235.87%
Industrials 217.97…
"We see no reason to rescue fraudsters when they complain that their perfect scheme to avoid getting caught has failed," Cabranes wrote.
A little OT perhaps but has white collar crime become TBTF? (In other words, does the world economy depend on a…
bee is close to what I was thinking. As access to higher education in the US decreases, educated foreigners with highly subsidized or less expensive higher educations may very well become the middle to higher middle class in the US.
Reply to @Old_Joe: Who lost money; who receives the fines? This seems to work for both Wall Street and government. Heck, they should make a bargain to skim a few cents off each worker each day and split the proceeds in court.
From the article: "Money managers touted the advantages of non-agency mortgage securities and bank loans on Thursday on expectations that housing prices will accelerate and interest rates will rise."
Both prices and rates will rise and what will wa…
Goggle translates: Ghost Fund "Legend - The ghost ship fund
Wall Street knowledge - Jun 5, 2013
Mutual Fund Observer (Mutual Fund Observer) publisher David Snowball The fund will therefore be likened to "the Fund in the world of ghost ships." The fu…
If you ask me, the mortgage payment is more important than either the price or the rate when a person purchases a house. In a natural environment the price would fluctuate with rate and wage to maintain payments that are affordable to buyers. Yes, m…
Wrong category, who cares!!! Welcome home CathyG. I was thinking about you yesterday and here you are. What a nice coincidence.
I think you can move the post but I've never done it. Someone will be by in a while who does, I'm sure.
Reply to @TSP_Transfer:
Good stuff. It's hard to argue with that even if you might want to. Would have liked to have seen Carbon sequestration and Advanced water purification have the certainty to go up the list a bit but maybe it leaves it open …
Reply to @hawkmountain: I'll have to remember to check the next time we get a supply but it sounds like Express Scripts may be an equal opportunity buyer. On the other hand, whatever their supply problem was, it also makes sense that Canada was just…
Reply to @msf: "you can't import drugs from Canada - they're not safe"
So, we get our drugs through an Express Scripts plan and, for a long time, they were having trouble supplying my husband's atorvastatin so they dribbled it to him in smaller qua…
If part of the deal was to live in abject poverty on the sidewalks of New York or Minneapolis, OK. Otherwise, what is wrong with whoever made this bargain?
(I don't care what the other's got. If they got a lot less, maybe we should give them more …
Reply to @scott: "If someone is successful investing in a different manner than me, I think that's interesting and maybe I can learn something from them/take something away from what they're doing. Or maybe I'll just find what they're doing interest…
My husband, bless his heart, knows how to hire a good financial advisor. He never worries about these things no matter how much I may want him to. His investment strategy:
