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Reply to @Old_Joe: I don't know if Amazon works like a dime store but my husband said that years ago when he had a Christmas gig in a dime store they would have to mark up the items going on sale so that the "sale" price was no different from the pr…
I will welcome a good decline in prices (unless it is permanent). If that decline happens I will have made that last ferry. I will have been stuck on Ocracoke for a long, long time awaiting that ferrry though.
When I asked myself the same question back after the turn of the century crash, I plotted Fidelity offerings in my husbands 401k and ended up with FSICX. It showed minimal damage during that type of downturn. But the type of downturn we had in 2007…
As I prepared to transfer some of my more recent savings into a CD at Pentagon Federal Credit Union I couldn't help thinking about all those retirees that keep essentially all their savings in traditional bank products. I think most people who retir…
Reply to @Accipiter: "But I didn't have the pleasure of using paper tapes or or toggle switches to code...."
Ah, you are deprived indeed. Don't tell me - no pdp-8; no LSI; no PET; surely a bit of wire-wrapping your own.
The good old days, indeed. …
Reply to @rono:
1. When you wish upon a star.... I don't think the Fed really wanted to do this. They previously said there wasn't much Fed action could do and begged for help from fiscal policy. Demand side help will not come. For some reason our …
Ah, we tap danced around this before. Some of us oldsters are practiced for the Age of Aquarius already.
The good new is that the importance of the election is totally preempted by this news.
I'm seeing ⒲ then a down-arrow. Shouldn't it be an up-arrow? (Between avatar and username).
Sorry for duplicate. I thought the other one in the test thread didn't post.
MJG,
Of course, studying correlations for short periods of time is what it is - riddled with problems. It's not a good data base. The last two Presidents are good examples. They share a similar first year economically - a falling stock market that o…
Do you have a copy of Mike Kimel's book "Presimetrics". You seem to like data associated with combinations of executive and legislative. Kimel's book has a lot of such stats.
Reply to @Accipiter: But seriously isn't there a quote "If you can remember the 60's you weren't really there"
Ah, therein lies the rub. I have been trying to figure out just where I was. I thought I was there to see it because I was a space junki…
Yea, I'm old and from a generation that is still touched by the national anthem, thought the American love affair with science would never end, and worships the dirt beneath my feet that used to be American dirt. I don't know who the dirt belongs to…
Reply to @fundalarm: "would be funny if he indeed finds outside investors."
This does sort of remind me of people sent to jail. They say recidivism is high and jail has little affect on their chosen career path. Mr. Corzine's investors might not fi…
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.
