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Not necessarily. But why the surprise when other people emulate someone who would have us believe that he is a national leader? Who exactly is setting the tone here?
From that JD_co link:
At a news conference Thursday afternoon former President Donald Trump said he's "entitled" to insult Vice President Kamala Harris because he doesn't respect her.
"I think I am entitled to personal attacks. I do not have a lo…
@BaluBalu- You must have a very low bar if you read all of my posts! Anyway, thanks for your clarification on all of this... I understand where you're coming from.
Since we're making notes, let's also note that this post was not remotely Off-Topic until FD1000 chose to take it there. And also for the record, it's posters like FD1000 and Baseball_Fan who are the most frequent offenders in introducing overtly po…
@Observant1- Your dependence on "facts" is unfortunate, as facts are not recognized or appreciated by certain individuals. Generally, those individuals deal primarily in "alternate facts", which frequently present themselves as a subcategory of "lie…
@Mona- it's usually a good indicator of the value of someone's opinions when they don't know the difference between "effect" and "affect", and can't write a paragraph in reasonably coherent standard English. FD certainly shares those characteristics…
We have owned almost all of those seven American Funds over the many years we were building our pile, varying allocations depending on what was going on in the world economy. Did just fine for us- very stable. I always did like the committee approac…
No problems linking Schwab to JPMC- in fact we have automatic transfers twice a month from JPMC to Schwab. Our SS & pensions are auto-deposited to JPMC checking, then auto-transferred to Schwab for deployment. This allows two potential sources f…
Well, we also started investing in our early 30's. If he's persistent he should be fine in 30 or 40 years. As John Templeton said: "The power of compounding..."
"But Barack Obama stole the show."
Not at all sure that I agree with that... I thought that Michelle Obama gave one of the most powerful speeches that I've ever had the pleasure to hear. Barack was very good, but...
"i don’t believe any report which claims to explain why the market does what it does."
Well, you can believe this report:
• If I buy something because I think that the market is going up, the market immediately goes down.
•If I sell something bec…
We also us JPMC as our primary bank- all of our SS and retirement income is channeled through them, and then automatically transferred to Schwab twice a month. Both JPMC and Schwab have offices one block away from our home, so dealing with either of…
Yes, I also thought that the interview with Manchin was really good. I especially liked his comment that he wasn't going to vote for anything that he couldn't go home to his constituency and explain in plain English.
Why does Musk remind me of a bigoted "one set of rules for multi-billionaires" and another completely different set of rules for "just ordinary persons"?
"Lived through 20% interest rates in the 70s or 80s."
Made a killing on that... bonds out of Utah (Mormons) to build a huge electric generating facility at Four Corners. Terrific income until they were called a couple of years later. It wasn't unti…
I am somewhat amused by all of the criticism regarding BofA. I came to the same conclusion over fifty years ago. When BofA took over the bank that held our mortgage I walked into our local branch, was granted an audience with the surly unfriendly wo…
We prefer DVDs to streaming for a number of reasons. The entire set was about $120 on Amazon, and we have been watching anywhere from 3 to 5 episodes a week. Really cheap when you consider the price for a decent movie these days.
We hadn't either, …
@Catch22- Hey Mark, thanks so much. The 3-DVD set is available at Amazon, but for some reason they don't show any info on the subtitles or CC. We have a couple of "unrestricted" DVD players which can play from any region, and have been able to get s…
If tips become untaxed I predict that it will take about twenty minutes for high-wealth taxpayers to suddenly start receiving large amounts of income as "tips". "You did real good this year, Mr Trump- here's a decent tip for you!"
