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That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
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…
Reply to @Investor: Actually, it can be a problem because young people often don't pay attention. Then years later when they do start assessing their status, information is hard to get. In my case, I worked for U. Utah for a few years under a TIAA-C…
Reply to @MaxBialystock: "Glad that bill got pulled. Big Brother is already BIG enuff. "
Yea, but as I watch governors and mayors sell off the publicly owned infrastructure, I don't hold out much hope for the future of the Internet or anything else.
Reply to @Derf: Yea, but lately I think "common sense" is overrated. Everyone claims to possess "common sense". Unfortunately, all I can agree with is the possessed part.
People's brains work differently. This may be self-selected to a certain extent. When I was in school my interests were in science and math. Going to school was one of my "talents" so I could always make an A on history, language, etc. tests but eve…
Reply to @hank: The payroll cut (which I strongly oppose) is just a way around the impasse on stimulus funding. I think the WH would like to infuse money at the bottom-most where they think it will be spent and not saved. There is no way to get this…
David and all, I ran into a problem I didn't have before. I have the accessibility option in IE8 set to ignore font sizes on webpages. I keep the text size on the value "Larger". With the new pages, if I leave the settings at these values, the text …
Hank,
I understand your concern and I hope the crowd doesn't contain any bad apples or people with their own bad agenda. But I do understand why they have shifted (I think). The response from a lot the Wall Street and associated tycoons has been r…
Well, bee, I wasn't aware that BoA had a division of behavior modification. (Just kidding.)
BoA has introduced a lot of new fees, minimums and the like in the last year or so. But, just like the toasters, won't more bank eventually gravitate and on…
Reply to @Investor: Investor, I agree but lack sufficient expertise to chose by dead poets. Here is the way I think - Enough already, I have been waiting most of my life for the big boom in innovation with it's fuel for prosperity for the average ma…
4) I agree,
5) This retired boomer figures that, for a working stiff, "as goes your country, goes you" so bumpy it will be. I warned the hubby yesterday that his "vast wealth" was fixing to take a hit. I'm quite conservatively invested but still hav…
Reply to @msf: It turns out that reading the analysis (full report) linked at Business Insider is very helpful in understanding a comparison of the numbers and the full paragraphs are present.
http://www.csbaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/201…
Reply to @msf: The Obama part of the graph does show too high spending but it is slightly less than what was being spent when he took office. The gray areas make one fail to notice this until one looks closely at the colors on the line to see the ac…
Investor,
What browser do you use? I use IE8 and the mouse-over gives a window that resizes to wrap the remaining name within the window without scrollbars. Scrollbars appear for the mouse-click pop-up but the fund name in this box also word wraps w…
