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Reply to @msf: "I'd like to believe that there are better angels in all of us. Oft times I wonder ... "
Now you bring up a new question. Since we seems to like and admire the qualities we pretend to detest, why did man (the species) make his angels…
I am amazed at the number of people with the attitude "bits will be bits" as though if you leave the software alone to grow up, it will develop bytes with more mature trading practices. I think a similar attitude about teen age drivers left me crip…
Reply to @scott:
It looks like we have an answer:
http://www.mauldineconomics.com/landing/yield-shark-4/MEC005ES0712A
"Time for action: Our three-pronged strategy to investment income can help you dramatically ratchet up your returns – and help y…
Actually, under my account at the valic web site the investment is called Fund 6, Short Term Fixed, 2012 rate 4%, guaranteed rate 4%. It appears as though the rates and minimums may still be in effect for new money under this plan. My husband's Fide…
Thanks. Both of these accounts were from the 80s. I imagine at the time 4% rates seemed impossibly low. My husband's 457 uses Fidelity which has a stable value with no minimum for his group so it currently is somewhere around 1% which is closer to t…
Thanks for the link. Yes, TIAA does not fit the definition given of a MMkt. I don't know about the Valic 403b MMkt because they call it money market but I don't know how it invests. When you own them they have the look and feel of a money market eve…
So what happens with fixed annuities or 403b guarantee minimums like with TIAA and Valic? Will fixed, non FDIC, morph into variable?
Example - Right now I have a "10 year pay-out annuity" with TIAA from an old 403b. There is a "guaranteed minimum"…
Catch, I must admit that, for most of my life, I was clueless (could have cared less) about any long term planning. When my workplace first offered a LTC plan I had never heard of them before. Long story short, neither I nor my husband qualified at …
Not only do I find it odd that people still consider the rating agencies to be honest and relevant, but also I find it even odder that no one knows the health of the banks without the same rating agencies telling them.
So, like a good little girl, I go out looking for the report as cited in the Yahoo article. I have concluded that either my Goggle talents have diminished or there is no report (available?). In fact, as best I can tell, the Telegraph reported some q…
So, combining the themes of TP and Costco. I, like someone above, have been using Northern - the purple super-duper kind. I am thinking of trying Costco's Kirkland brand. My husband has increased the number of uses for TP and is currently going thro…
Old_Joe, You are less confused than I am and I've got gobs of education that is rather disgustingly useless right now.
So is the question - Can everyone be simultaneously successful? It seems to me that any way I picture a positive answer involves …
catch, The suspense is killing me. Always, always - Stay tune for next week's episode. Will catch sell his remaining bonds and go 99% equity. Will he even sell his FSICX? Tune in next week for the continuing story of "Funds Boat".
But seriously, I …
Reply to @Investor:
Yep, here, MFO. If you want to see a mirror of it, you can find it at the link right now. I imagine the link mirror will disappear now that it is fixed.
http://zone-h.org/mirror/id/17707640
So a few minutes ago when I tried to access this website I got a black page with red writing that said: Server hacked by Tigerm@te, Bangladeshi hacker.... I tried several times. It went away after just a few minutes.
Reply to @Maurice: Well, Maurice, it isn't war time unless an educational opportunity constitutes a call to war.
"... Vietnam. The President, Lyndon B. Johnson, ... so he borrowed from the Trust Fund with an IOU, with no interest necessary. Since t…
This table is taken from the SS Commission reports and relates only to OAS without DI (Social Security Trust Fund alone - no disability or Medicare). It is what it is but I post it to show the movement of the numbers depending on the recently experi…
Well, in my opinion, the need for tax deferral is more important to the boomer wave. Since the withdrawal tax is essentially a income tax on principle and gains, and since the trust fund repayment for SS is a transfer back from the general taxes to …
Well MaxBialystock, After awhile a beaten dog only remembers life as a beaten dog. There are many different categories of erasers. Now, on the other hand, the type of eraser in the article is more interesting and an apt description of the la-la-land…
Yep, my husband's Roth is all Wellington. Past performance .... sigh but I have considered using his brokerage link in his Fidelity 401K to access more.
Yea, my husband ask's "what are you doing"? I didn't try to change his dictionary from FA to MFO so I still answer "reading fund alarm". He alway's comes back with "what are they doing now?" if he is in the mood to hear me rag on about the state of …
A couple of weeks ago I simultaneous moved all my equity holdings in the Fed employee's TSP to the G-Fund and moved money market fund's left in my husband's Fidelity 401k into their version of the same indexes as in the TSP. I am not finished; this …
The site isn't always compatible with all settings. I get the same banner with blank screen with IE8 at my default settings. If I change the font size or just zoom the screen to 125%, all the problems vanish. So if the tech types don't fix it with g…
Max, I just have to go in for a brain cleaning. Now you have me looking at hackers, theives and people who lose phones as job creators and engines of the economy.
Catch, My driveway opens onto an alley with potholes so numerous I can't find a path out that doesn't put me in at least half. That's just about where I feel that I might be with these problems too.
Well, as far as the latimes stuff is concerned it appears they are talking about new applicants for unemployment. As far as people dropping off due to shortening of time allowed, the BLS published the unemployment number in a variety of ways. The on…
