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If you consider the insurance industry to be part of the finance world then the environment is already making a significant mark. Good luck in obtaining homeowner insurance in major sections of California.
@hank- not so sure about "extensive" experience- more like "just enough to be dangerous". But yeah, I was thinking along those lines myself with respect to Boeing.
Forget Sully. That was an unusually proficient pilot at work on a very good day.
Yes,…
Hey, Capitalism at work! The payoff has probably been transferred offshore so as to save the government the trouble of accounting for it. What's the problem?
"I believe there are advantages to having a secure border and a comprehensive Guest Workers program."
Absolutely. Couldn't agree more. There's certainly nothing wrong with having a secure border.
There are many thousands of workers who are present…
@catch22- Have noted significant variation in brain performance at this end also. I think that we're approaching the lower right-hand end of the bell curve. :(
@hank- Undoubtedly there will be performance variations in different areas, but we have found the USPS to be pretty darned solid for quite a number of years now.
@VintageFreak- Interesting. We use Amazon heavily- at least every couple of weeks, so …
"What should your retirement wish be for 2020"
Well, my wish is that our health remains in as good shape as our retirement income. At the moment, that may be somewhat optimistic.
@hank- Thanks for that NY Times article. At first glance that article may seem like a list of design and manufacturing concerns that further call the safety of that plane into question. This may seem odd, but I don't see it that way.
In the design …
Well, I'm on board with you guys on this one, that's for sure. I fully realize that there are certain situations involving taxes that may be in need of clarification, or that may result in uneven or potentially unfair treatment. Those issues should …
From Wickipedia, FWIW:
"According to Shiller, the most common responses were related to a general mindset of investors at the time: a "gut feeling" of an impending crash, perhaps brought on by "too much indebtedness".
Hard to say, it seems.
"The question that folks like Arnott and GMO always struggle with is they don’t know what will trigger the reversion. It has to be something major. Overvaluation alone is never the trigger."
And the "something major" trigger in 1987 was... ?
@David_Snowball- I was going to respond but then I realized that I have almost certainly misunderstood your comment, and so my comment in response to your comment would probably be misunderstood even more. Plus, I hereby claim Executive Privilege. …
Amazon customer reviews: many times very helpful, if used with caution.
Depending on the nature of what I'm buying I sometimes pay serious attention to the user reviews. Hank's right regarding the cheaper stuff... the grammar of many of those revie…
I wouldn't worry too much about Mr. Muilenburg. He'll fit in very smoothly with the corporate culture at PG&E, and I'm sure that he'll have a brilliant future there.
@msf- Yes, I remember that one. Actually thought that it was pretty funny at the time... sounded like something stupid that I might have done.
But seriously, note the difference between the responses of Lockheed and Boeing... Lockheed admitted owni…
Makes you wonder if the 737 software group was also involved with the Starliner. Surely a software glitch like that should have shown up with adequate pre-testing. Maybe they cut a few corners there too.
I really liked the part where Boeing said, i…
Amplifying @msf's observations, following are heavily abridged selections from a current "Heard On the Street" commentary from the WSJ.
Boeing Needs to Jettison More Than Its CEO
Boeing has taken the right step in ousting Dennis Muilenburg. Repla…
Any post trumpeting the "xx best" or the "xx greatest" or the "xx reasons to" should be regarded as nothing more than click bait garbage, and automatically ignored as a waste of time.
To be honest, I've never quite understood the benefit of posting a public message on someone's profile / "Activity Wall", or why anyone would want to. Like Catch22, I've stumbled on such messages from time to time, and seen messages between posters …
