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That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
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…
Oh, come on you guys... let's have a little empathy here. They were really mean to him. Especially after he did all of that great stuff for us investors.
Perhaps PIMCO could say "I'm sorry" by offering his new funds through PIMCO. OR, not holding my…
Maybe just do it like Congress. For example:
"TITLE I—Reauthorization of FEMA and Modernization of Integrated Public Alert and Warning System
SEC. 101. Reauthorization of Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Section 699 of Public Law 109–295 (6…
In my Fido accounts VWENX is unavailable at any fee, being an Admiral, and VWELX is closed. Fee may be $50, note, not sure.
Although the fee on such transactions from my husband's workplace brokerage window would be $75, I believe we are stopped fr…
When you think about it, it doesn't matter what statistic is used as long as you make sure you understand what it is and what it isn't, what it shows and what it doesn't show, when it's appropriate and when it is not, and how it can be used to revea…
Did the zero interest rate really benefit those who depend on their CDs and bonds? Not really. It certainly helped the big banks, but not so much the consumers.
Which is precisely why the other thread "Failure to Launch: The Federal Reserve is t…
In matters controversial, my perception's rather fine; I always see both points of view, the one that's wrong and mine. or something like that = Source lost to me
I have carefully considered every argument and can only conclude that free migratio…
I don't understand paying too much attention to YTD. If you have to measure from one point to the other, doesn't it make more sense to start and end at the same time of year? Sticking to a constant period instead of a period changing length also mak…
I guess the 2nd amendment protects guns that fly too - the wings could be part of the design like the magazines are. But I can't help having an image of GOOGLE 007 cars having "gun" fights with each other over the right of way on their way to nowher…
bee, you have to put your tongue in the correct position to get the numbers. Scott Burns years ago had a whole table of IRA withdrawal and SS taxes.
Here is where they get it. You have only one additional dollar when you withdraw the $1 from the IR…
@MJG :"That means, on a relative basis, the rich have been getting richer. It does not necessarily mean that the poor are getting poorer."
I think one thing is missed - if we persistently need to argue about whether we need to reduce elderly SS ben…
I don't know how acquainted you are with Scott Burns but taxes, especially payroll taxes, has been a bit of his obsession and income for many years. If you browse around Dallas Times archives or tidbits from past posts at AssetBuilders, you will fi…
I uninstalled flash player and discovered that BoA's ShopSafe doesn't work without it. Creepy.
MS updates always messes with my office and I am SICK to death of repairing it. As for JAVA, I delete it, need it, install it, delete it, need it, ....
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You know, one million dollars is more an emotional number than a high number now days. I wonder how many workers are employed in jobs paying more than $100K/year and maxing some sort of 401K plan? If lots of boomers have amassed a million under the …
Because if she pisses him off by idiotic negative campaigning, he will run as an independent.
What if the end-of-the-day goal is just to move her to the left a bit and force her to focus a bit more on substantive domestic policy (liberal)?
