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I dunno... I have gotten to the point where I really hate almost everything about flying. I sure hear you with respect to the kid behind me kicking the seat back, but then when deplaning and wading through the garbage pit that once was a nice-lookin…
Some very good points there, @hank- that makes a lot of political sense- the Supremes just sit there and let the Court of Appeals take all of the heat. Given the jurisdiction, that could very well be what goes down.
This whole thing is nothing more than Kabuki Theater.
Did anyone actually believe that the $1.5 billion judgement against Alex Jones would actually ever be collected?
Does anyone actually believe that the $148 million judgement against Rudy Giulia…
The CO Supreme Court issued a ruling but suspended it pending an appeal to the US Supreme Court.
Judicial/political games:
• A lower Colorado court issued a ruling barred Trump from the state ballot, finding that Trump had participated in an insur…
I feel as if we are now living in two different countries... "theirs", and "ours". Other than commercial ties there seems to be very little overlap between the two. If this continues to evolve, I wouldn't be at all surprised to eventually see a semi…
"My biggest yield among my 5 single stock picks is ET, oil/gas midstream"
@Crash - and here I thought that you didn't care for the capitalist 1% raping the world for mere profit.
How sad.
"There is no free lunch with the monthly subscription fees to all these services on top of high inflation"
True enough, but when you're in your eighties it's very hard to carry home heavy grocery bags. We still go shopping for meat, fruit and veget…
@MikeM - you probably remember "Click and Clack" / "Cartalk" which ran on NPR for many, many years. They had no use for Jeeps and Range Rovers way back then. Not much has changed, evidently.
"What's always screwed me up with that word is that I was indoctrinated in grammar school by the nuns saying that the Pope was infallible. Even at a young age I knew that was ridiculous"
@MikeM - You too, h'mm? In about the sixth grade I asked how …
Some of you folks seem to be getting more and more cynical. Given the way that our country and in fact much of the world is operating lately it's pretty easy to understand that.
@catch22- Wow! Thanks so much for that link- I had absolutely no idea that quantum computing had made such an advance. I thought that we were still at the point that every once in a great while they could get the damned thing to actually work right,…
"Humans are infallible"...
While some humans (a certain ex-president easily comes to mind) may believe this, it's obviously not true. I suspect that Mike meant to say "not infallible".
As Yogi just said, "report payment delays to the FDIC. While FDIC coverage won't kick in from delated CD interest payments, but it is valid to ask if the bank involved is in any kind of trouble. Both FDIC and the Fed watch banks who top the lists of…
@hank- well, Baseball_Fan does make a good point regarding the desirability of having a reasonable amount of secure fixed income for a number of years immediately after retirement. That happened to us- immediately after our retirement the great even…
"Never in my life, have I owned a CD or US treasury"
So what?? That's your life. We have, as circumstances suggested, and we are doing every bit as well as you, thank you. We have also, as circumstances indicated, ventured in real estate (both resi…
@dtconroe- I've been following all of this with great interest, as all of my CD and Treasury ladder is at Schwab. Thanks very much for your work on this and sharing the information.
This low-water situation has been developing over the last few years. The number of ship transits through the canal has been substantially reduced. Additionally, the largest freighters are being required to offload a significant number of containers…
"Let's see how many posters will try to find a word or something else I didn't mean and twist the above."
@FD1000: If you post something that is obscurely phrased then we have little choice but to speculate on your intended meaning.
If you conside…
I'm interpreting FD's "What The F--k" portfolio" comment to mean that conceptually he's ignoring what the portfolio is composed of as long as the income generated satisfies the needs of a particular investor.
My wife and I don't have anything close…
@Derf- do you mean a CD actually offered by Schwab Bank, or a CD from some other bank purchased through Schwab Brokerage?
My answer to you would be "yes" to both situations.
I may be completely incorrect on this, but isn't it common for a specific brokered CD to be offered by more than one brokerage? If so, why or how could any one brokerage be responsible for monitoring and enforcing the conduct of a non-performing ban…
I really fail to understand why Schwab, or any broker, should be held responsible for a problem from some bank. If Schwab receives the money, it forwards it to you. Are they supposed to be responsible for chasing down some issue at every bank in the…
Well, that's just the way it goes. If the other 99% had studied harder and worked harder they would be in that 1% too.
Just ask Charles Koch (estimated net worth of $66 billion) or the Sackler family ($10.8 billion as of 2020).
Thanks- the link to the article regarding water consumption is very interesting. It seems that at least some of the large users are trying to minimize consumption and release more back for agricultural and other use.
