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@hank - I'm finding that as I age I'm making many more errors in "quick glance" situations... the brain is not quite keeping up with the fast eyeball, and sometimes "substitutes" words. Kind of like "AI", I guess. Then I have to go back over the tex…
No, the caption says "DreamLIFTER", not "Dreamliner".
From Wickipedia:
The Boeing Dreamlifter, officially the 747-400 Large Cargo Freighter (LCF), is a wide-body cargo aircraft modified extensively from the Boeing 747-400 airliner.
When I was researching insurance many years ago I found that Mercury had some pretty poor reviews. I remember finding at the CA Dept of Insurance official site an extensive ratings/ complaint report on all companies operating in CA at the time, but …
Here's what bothers me about this one: we read that the expected life span of this type of aircraft is 30 years. The Delta plane is 34 years old. Is there any kind of regulatory requirement for inspection or special maintenance in a situation like t…
@Derf - I suppose that it is a "secondary market"... I just dial up what's available at Schwab and pick what I want. The ones that I mention here were issued some time ago, as the original interest is in the 2 to 3% range.
@msf - OK, let's not get …
Sold 100k SUTXX MMKT (currently 5.17%) to extend income ladder- 50k treasuries, mature 2/26 @ 4.9698%, and 1/27 @ 4.806%
Note: The Washington Post is reporting that "the U.S. economy grew at 1.6 percent annual rate in first quarter 2024, a sharp sl…
Sold 100k SUTXX MMKT (currently 5.17%) to extend income ladder- 50k treasuries, mature 2/26 @ 4.9698%, and 1/27 @ 4.806%
Note: The Washington Post is reporting that "the U.S. economy grew at 1.6 percent annual rate in first quarter 2024, a sharp sl…
@Roy - that's great- good for you. Out here in CA we're lucky to find insurance at all. And on top of all of your coverages we have to worry about earthquake also.
@Mona - msf, in an earlier post in this thread, found the slander coverage under the "Personal Liability" section of his umbrella coverage. Then checking our State Farm policy I found it to be similar- also under "Personal Coverage".
A large supermarket in our neighborhood now has all liquor locked behind glass doors. The Walgreen's drug store a block away now has much of it's merchandise similarly locked up. And this is a very low-crime wealthy San Francisco neighborhood, so I …
Thousands more Californians will lose their home insurance this summer as two more insurers withdraw from the state.
In filings with the California Department of Insurance, Tokio Marine America Insurance Co. and Trans Pacific Insurance Co. said the…
From above: "Not worth the hassle for me, particularly with Treasuries yielding 5% or more, and they can be easily bought and sold."
Yes, that's pretty much the way that I see it also.
To repeat what I posted earlier in this discussion:
When entire large contiguous communities are at risk because of one single loss situation (especially weather or fire related) that model simply doesn't work.
The reality is that the insurance mod…
Be aware that there are central information agencies which supply every bit of information regarding your personal history that they can scrape up to the insurance companies. And the insurance companies (at least many of them) contribute to and rely…
From above - "I know for a fact these insurance companies have a small army of actuaries on staff"
Now that is a new development. That's going to put a lot of Tarot card readers out of a job.
In California at least State Farm is attempting to limit their exposure to potential losses to a level that can be supported by premium revenue. To this end they have recently cancelled policies which were located in geographic areas that they deeme…
In a post above @Catch22 mentions that even if a vehicle is low-mileage and only a few years old insurance companies may consider it "totaled" if the air bags have deployed. Exactly that happened to a good friend of mine here in CA- his wife ran the…
@msf- thanks for the note about slander being covered under "Personal injury". Same with our State Farm policy. Now I'm wondering if a certain baseball fan has similar coverage... :)
I doubt that it will be this weekend- the house bill needs to return to the Senate and be reconciled with the original Senate version- sometime next week at best, I think.
On this subject, I want to recognize the leadership of GOP Speaker Johnson. …