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Anna
That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
Hey Mona, Had I been wanting to distract by soliciting sympathy I would have emphasized my "woe is me"s in the first post. You just played a game of "see it came out all right" thus my second post. The original post was about the "ad hominem" type a…
Well Mona, I was not OK. Leg glued back together, 3 1/3 inches shorter, and crippled for life. I'm sorry you didn't see my point but, perhaps. not surprised.
Well, Mona, just a brief question related to an incidence that happened to me. I was crippled by a driver who crossed a highway and hit me head on. He had partied for 48hours and fallen asleep at the wheel. He was employed at the time of the acciden…
I can't wait to wake up and tell you guys about this and that other thread. How about a post in "Off Topic" at about market opening tomorrow. Much coffee on the keyboard will be had by all!
Anna through a gagging glass
OK, first thing that came to mind was replacing the Intel processor without replacing the motherboard. I never knew anyone who actually did that and don't remember exactly which ones 486 or early Pentium?. Some things are great in modular and others…
Burns has been harping on this for a long, long time. I first saw it in a column he used to write for the Dallas newspaper. The "income" tax on SS can be viewed In many ways. What's the saying "money is fungible". To understand my point, consider t…
>Reply to @msf: "What makes this choice even more compelling is that once the higher earning spouse reaches Full Retirement Age (FRA - somewhere between 65 and 67), this person can take 1/2 the full retirement benefits of the other spouse, but on…
Well Mark, I'm a lurker that visits almost every day. All the things you mention are among the things things I like about this website.
I like to read the various posts from the various characters that contribute real content to MFO. I don't find …
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…
