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"FYI: They all have something worthwhile to offer, but after rereading them, I found..."
I doubt very much that Ted ever read them, never mind re-reading them, as he claims.
Just more of Ted's
@hank- Your use of the term "ballyhoo" in this instance is certainly generous. Another word, also beginning with the letter "b", is much more appropriate.
Facebook is a privately owned media resource. Similar to MFO as such, it has absolutely no obligation to publish or promulgate any comments, information (or disinformation) from any source. It is completely free to publish anything that it desires, …
@Derf- Yes, we received that also. It's much more reasonable, outlining a number of possible security enhancements and suggesting that we consider implementing them.
You apparently don't give a damn about David Snowball's approval either. How many more times is he going to have to ask you to observe the same rules that everyone else does?
As a followup to all of this, here is an excerpt from an email just received from Mr. Hutcherson, a client rep at American Century:
... I am a Client Specialist here at American Century Investments. I have been working with Kristi Laing, who you guy…
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Without any warning a mutual fund company locks you out of almost 500k of your own money, and you think that's perfectly fine. It would be very interesting to see your reaction if that happened to you.
Wow, the swamp is really getting a lot cleaner, isn't it?
Meanwhile, in other news-
Trump has awarded G-7 summit to his Miami-area resort, the White House says
@Mark- That's certainly unnerving and vexing. The minority leading the majority around by their noses. And then having the absolute insolence and arrogance to claim that they are "the silent majority".
@BenWP Sinclair Oil Corporation used to have lots of gas stations, which had the Sinclair logo and a drawing of a dinosaur. I haven't seen a Sinclair gas station in ages, but Wickipedia says that they're still around, as a privately owned corporatio…
It's often been noted that so-called "liberal elites" tend to cluster in larger cities, and their largely right-wing opposite numbers tend to be found in more rural areas. The larger city areas of course have a much more varied spectrum of news and …
@Ted- "Big Alpha dog"? It sure seems like you're really losing it. Sorry to see that.
Once again: Your point would be exactly what? Gary asked a question, and I tried to help. You have a problem with that?
Or maybe you have a better answer for him…
@Gary- I searched on that, as you probably did also. Inconclusive, but I'd give you at least 80% probability that there's no connection. I just can't imagine Ken Fisher's large and very slick operation saying that "hours may vary".
"We are 15 and 20 years away from retirement respectively"
@Simon- Given that fact I completely agree with your investment outlook. However, I felt that turning 80 was a signal for us to pull way back from our formerly robust market exposure. I hop…
@Sven- What I'm trying to get at here is that if no one is willing to pay a decent rate to borrow money then why exactly is that? Is it because, like the grapes, there is already more of a supply than there is a demand? And if that's true, what are …
Due to a number of factors here in CA there is presently an oversupply of premium-quality wine grapes. Crops which normally command $4-7k/ton are now lucky to obtain 1.5k. Some growers who have traditionally sold their entire harvest to the same vin…
@hank- Thanks for that link- I thought that it was quite interesting, particularly the divided opinions on current airworthiness of very old aircraft.
I'm afraid that I can't contribute on the subject of FAA regs- well outside of my area of knowled…
@hank- Yes, you're echoing my thoughts also. Given the age of the aircraft I might not have been surprised if there had been some sort of frame failure, but a whole lot of those B17s managed to land safely during WW2 with one or more engines inopera…
@Ted / @Crash: This whole "private window" thing is really nonsensical when it comes to paywalls. In this day of cheap-as-dirt computing power all any publisher needs to do is keep a simple database of paying customers. If your not on that list, or …
@hank- Yes the Latin motto certainly sounds more impressive. "Semper Idem" should probably be in there too.
Sort of like this: “Quantitas, neque qualitas: semper idem"
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