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That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
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:
Reply to @bee: Nothing came out of the Simpson-Bowles committee which disbanded without issuing a report. People like to pretend that the Simpson-Bowles report was the "bipartisan" committee report but there was no agreement in the committee and no …
It is interesting that the more 'developed' countries become, the more cradle-to-grave goodies they provide their citizens.
Reply to @BobC: Statements like that fly in the face of all I hold dear about the growth of civilization. What purpose is ach…
Same for XP IE8, no accessibility options turned on, smallest to largest font. List pops up on left and for:
Fund characters FS
Visible list begins at FSAGX: Fidelity Select Gold Pt
Hidden list (covered by banner): FSAAX: Fidelity Advisor Asset Mana…
I guess it's time to reduce the size of a $100 bill to postage stamp size. Or what does this look like in bitcoins? Maybe the Fed can shuffle those instead. Or wait, maybe they already do.
No, not trying to be dumb here just thinking how unimportan…
David, Thanks for keeping us informed. Comcast thanks you too since I never blame the website when I can blame Comcast instead. (Actually, I have been lucky and haven't had much problem accessing the site lately.)
Reply to @Charles: The graph is from: http://www.scribd.com/doc/129563978/Autonomy-Global-Macro-Fund-Investor-Letter-201212 but a better interpretation of what OECD means by insurance is given in: http://www.oecd.org/finance/financial-markets/421434…
I couldn't help thinking that if I owned a suite of houses and hired someone to manage them for me, would the manager dare think he/she can tell me what order I can sell my houses in?????
My world is upside down and I sit back daily and just watch …
Reply to @Accipiter: I don't need it fixed just for me. I was providing the information in case it might help Chip figure out the other cases. If my problem is not related there is no reason to pursue and fix it because I am using XP IE8 and have th…
Reply to @Ginko: I have a feeling that it has something to do with the automatic scaling (I hope that makes sense). It seems to me that the first character placed on the page after the banner main menu (Home About (etc.) is mapped is not finding eno…
Reply to @Ted: Yea, I've just lived with it since I have a good solution. Are you one of the ones that recently reported a problem? If so, are you saying that you no longer care if your particular situation is solved?
David, One other thing about my settings. I have IE 8 accessibility options set to "Ignore font sizes specified on webpages". Again, only when my text size (under the menu item view) is set to "Larger" or "Largest" does the problem appear. If I turn…
David, A long time ago I reported similar behavior with IE 8:
http://www.mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/6320#Comment_6320
Someone (deleted user) suggested I use the old link eliminating the banner:
http://www.mutualfu…
Reply to @catch22: Years ago I asked a young coworker about this and he said that he did the switch lanes even if it accomplishes nothing thing because it was more entertaining and active (challenging?) than just sitting there. He was a smart guy bu…
From the first website above:
http://www.mapsofworld.com/cyprus/
Cyprus is home to a progressive and high-income economy. It has a very high Human Development Index.
The economy is thriving and has branched out over the last few decades. As laid do…
I selected the text in the posts in this thread, copied them and pasted them in notepad on a Windows computer. It produced the following which sounds similar to what you want:
Is there a printing feature on MFO?
▲ ▼ Soupkitchen 7:39AM Flag I have b…
Reply to @MikeM:
I really know nothing about what is a good number for CPI but Barry Ritzhold was ranting about Michael Boskin and said: "...they fabricated a series of nonsense adjustments that artificially lowered CPI by 1.1%." http://www.rithol…
