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Sure, Trump can intimidate large outfits like Amazon, but if your local auto dealer or repair shop shows it, what's he going to do about that? I'm just saying that there's a very powerful weapon available to "we the people", should we care to use it.
Actually this could be a very potent weapon against the tariffs if a number of retailers, especially the automotive industry, appliance dealers, and other sellers of expensive items included that information on their customer invoices.
The line it…
@PopTart- We held various American Funds/Capital Group growth funds for many years, and they did just fine for us. The dividend value play sounds interesting too. I always liked American/Capital because of their "committee" advisory approach... noth…
@hank- Thank you very much for the compliment. It helps to read the entire post to establish the context of a remark therein. Done consistently, it also helps to form a picture of a poster's personality, and that in turn is very helpful in evaluatin…
Not to be snarky, but I really don't need Jamelle Bouie to explain all of this to me... I pretty much figured this out for myself. It doesn't take a genius to recognize and understand what's going on.
"Support PBS. It’s our last best hope."
It is, and we do. Having no children, we are seriously considering making PBS/NPR the beneficiary of our estate.
For those who have joined MFO relatively recently (i.e. any time after 2011)-
I realize that this is going to sound a little strange, but many parts of the MFO platform were designed by a fellow who called himself Accipiter, if I remember correctly…
Hey there @catch22- No, with that opening pic of our glorious leader I realized that it was an "official" site... but really just another "official porn" site. One glance was enough.
• All brokerages need/want to make money.
• All brokerages are going to do that by removing money from customers, some way, somehow.
• Schwab does it by creating situations where they, not the customer, use the customer's money.
• If Schwab stops do…
50k CD came due today- redeployed into SUTXX MMKT rather than new CD or Treasury because rates seem to be rising a bit and didn't want to lock up yield until I see where things are going to settle.
Yes, Francis was a very good man, and a very good pope. It will be interesting to watch the succession politics- there's a very strong right-wing in the Catholic Church upper hierarchy, as well. The archbishop of San Francisco, for example, is a dri…
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Washington Post:
As might be expected from our King of Chaos-
Trump administration: Letter “unauthorized” and should not have been sent.
On Friday, the New York Times reported that two Trump admi…
Hey Catch- thanks for that... really like it. BTW, we just upped our contribution to the ACLU after their success in getting the serious attention of the Supreme Court. I'm hoping for some 7:2 decisions from that group on some of the really dangerou…
Schwab SUTXX broke its long-term gradual 7-day interest decrease today, increasing from 4.12% to 4.13%. Not a big deal, but that rate is like a very large ship- it moves slowly but inexorably, and takes a long time to reverse direction.
OK, I'll bite-what the heck is an "Antetokounmpo" anyhow? I guess the "Ante" means that it comes before the "tokounmpo" , but that's really not much help.
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"they told me to take my hands off the keyboard and leave the building"
Sounds a lot like some suggestions that I've seen right here on MFO. Makes one wonder...
Well seems like Lutnick was right- evidently they were temporary- just over the weekend.
Maybe those will be in a new bucket: Mon-Fri only , or maybe even "weekday only but suspended for 90 days" , unless of course they convert to "Trump think…
@Crash- your inadvertent use of a "loose canon" surely harks back to one of your previous lives, but is actually quite appropriate:
canon: 1) a general law, rule, principle, or criterion by which something is judged
2) a collection or…
