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Generally, one or more "flags" generated by posters will get the attention of one of a number of moderators. No one is being paid much (if anything) to help keep MFO running, and it takes a pretty serious situation for one of them to actually termin…
@BaluBalu- This question has risen several times over the years. If I understand the situation correctly, the software platform used here does not support that option.
Take another look, orden- the first pitch came from your direction. You and your treasonous leader have no problem with facts- you just make up your own.
@Derf- Why should a perfectly reasonable conversation between MFO members be removed from the financial section because of the destructive conduct of two people who obviously have no regard for MFO or it's members?
If there are continued egregious …
How typical. How very predictable.
Step One: @rsorden and @Baseball_Fan feel free to destroy a completely non-partisan financial conversation by injecting scurrilous and vile political comments. This is OK for them though, because this is America …
@MikeM- Well, a couple of things to consider- first, a short-duration callable CD of a year or so is likely not to be called. Beyond that (arbitrary) timeframe I think that a lot would depend on your age and investment outlook. An older person like …
@Investor- Hello there, Investor! Very happy that you're still with us. I hope that Austin is still a small oasis of relative sanity, surrounded as it is by the howling wilderness of Texas.
At 84, I've also reduced everything to MMkt Funds, and CDs…
Well, I'm not convinced that we are completely "organized", but compared to the opposition we do look pretty damned good right now. I do like our leader, Hakeem Jeffries. Nancy Pelosi engineered a nice smooth transition.
Thank the gods that it does…
@hank- In my post to fundly I happened to mention games that retailers play. While that's true enough, you accurately point out that the game playing is present throughout the entire food and other supply chains, not just retailers.
How all of that…
@fundly- As I noted above, prices vary very significantly depending upon which store that you happen to use. $3.49 vs $8.99. And how exactly can the government, or for that matter anyone, be expected to accurately and consistently adjust for that so…
"Food prices vary greatly depending on city, state, neighborhood, size of store and distance from distributor."
Tell me. Yesterday we went shopping for, among other things, bottled orange juice.
We do some shopping, especially for meat and fish, a…
I just checked with my wife about me possibly being "sophisticated”. She looked at me funny and broke into uncontrollable laughter. I wonder what that meant?
This is kind of beating that poor old dead horse (yet again) but all of this stuff totally depends upon one's age, needs, and resources. I played the game for many years: stocks, stock funds (of many areas and types), bonds, bond funds, Mmkt funds, …
None in particular that I'm aware of. She is noted for being the only congressional member who voted against military action after 911, but considering how that was mishandled, maybe she was prescient.
I just don't hold with high political offices …
As I said... "But Newsom and the Sacramento mafia will probably go for woke politics rather than competency."
"Race and genitalia"... if that ain't "woke" you tell me what it is.
"I have to figure out how to post charts here."
Note that the examples posted above are not for the "chart" in D_co's article, but rather one of the graphs, which do in fact have a "built-in" link.
The "chart" has no such link, and because of that…
A personal note regarding Dianne Feinstein-
When she was our mayor, a local car agency donated (lent) a new Cadillac to the Mayor's office every year. Dianne had a real interest in SF public safety, and liked to monitor all of our police and fire r…
Hi there Mark- yes sir, she would get my vote too. But Newsom and the Sacramento mafia will probably go for woke politics rather than competency. Speaking of our ultra left wing folks, I was very pleased to see AOC yesterday making a decisive attack…
