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"Costco selling as much as $200 million in gold bars monthly"
I wonder if they have their "same-day" delivery service using their minimum wage delivery drivers for those?. And would you have to tip the delivery person in gold?
@catch22 - Hey there catch- I'll tell you true: Having almost fried myself a few times with the typical 400 to 800 volt DC vacuum tube power supplies I had absolutely no reservations about adapting to the 5 and 12 vdc solid state supplies. None at a…
"It’s been just fantastic watching the evolution of technology over my 78 years"
For sure. At around 10 yrs old I started getting interested in electronics... it was all vacuum tube technology then, of course. I learned all of the basics from the R…
The useful "shelf life" of any specific electronic/concept/hardware/software is relatively short. Just as the telephone eclipsed the telegraph, so much new stuff comes along so frequently and rapidly that it's foolish to regard any of this stuff as…
"In contrast, SUTXX was virtually 100% (99.61%) state tax exempt."
@msf - quite some time ago you pointed that out to me, and I changed our Schwab MMKT account to SUTXX. Thanks again for that suggestion. I have no idea how I would function financia…
This is really strange... I was a radio/communications tech for San Francisco Emergency Services, and for twenty years carried a $2000 high-end Motorola radio which allowed me access to a fantastic world of public safety information in real time.
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I'm similar to Tarwheel- about 50% CDs and 50% Treasuries out to 2028. I'm 85 (well, maybe 84.990632) so 2028 is about as far as I want to look. As far as rates, the CDs and Treasuries are pretty close. We still have a huge chunk in Schwab Treasury …
@Mark & @hank- thanks to both of you for that question and answer. I agree with everything that's been said up above me here. We do subscribe to Consumers’ Checkbook and it's pretty good, but as Observant1 mentions it's got limited area coverage…
@BaluBalu- thanks for the info. Re job experience vs learning, speaking for myself I was always learning something new, right to the very end. And I was regarded as "the guy who wrote the book" at our shop.
@BaluBalu- I'm a little confused by "if there is no fees being charged, then you know for sure it is a new issue", because I frequently buy secondary Treasury issues at Schwab which show "No Fee" on the trade ticket. That would seem to suggest diffe…
" We live in two totally different worlds."
"Tell me what you watch and I'll tell you how you feel on almost any hot topic"
"The country is divided... It's on purpose because it makes people money."
Indeed. There, my friends, is the story of our …
@BaluBalu- There's actually one more step to Mike's directions- as he said, go to Research - Bonds, CDs and Fixed Income, and then clicking on "Find Bonds & Fixed Income" takes you to a new "Find Bonds" page where you click "Bond Type" to selec…
Same here- going to move another 10% of Schwab SUTXX MMKT into 2 or 3 yr Treasuries- looking to get income spread to 50% MMKT / 50% fixed, out to 2028.
"the populations of the two states will accept any result/resolution other than the complete and total annihilation of the other"
@Mark - Well, I'm not at all certain about "the populations", but for sure there are a significant number of people in…
I'm 85, and have never voted for anyone other than the Democratic presidential candidate. For the first time in my life I would vote for someone other than Biden, specifically to protest his tolerance of the Gaza situation. Unfortunately, my only ot…
Being very hard of hearing I have to use Schwab's "Chat" option. Their Chat service reps are uniformly friendly and helpful, no matter which part of the US they answer from (so far that's been Texas, Colorado, and one other place back East that I ca…
Well, it's a pretty sure thing that Amazon boosts their price by at least 5% to cover the cost of the 5% that they "give" back if you use their card, and keep if you don't use their card. Somebody's got to pay for Jeff Bezos' new yacht, spaceships, …
OK, both Amazon and Chase keep track of your points. You can convert to cash at Chase, or use for additional "new" purchases at Amazon. But if you use them at Amazon, you don't get an additional 5% worth of points. Amazon obviously hopes that you'll…
FWIW, the Amazon Prime/Chase CC gets you 5% in points back on Amazon purchases, and 2% on many other non-Amazon purchases.
The points are redeemable at Amazon or for cash from Chase. I always take the cash at Chase and never redeem at Amazon becaus…
