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I'm going to repeat something here that I posted over in an Off-Topic thread:
The Democrats are going to be the very least of McCarthy's problems. For a truly somber overview of the legislative minefield laying ahead, I highly recommend pulling up …
"no rational person would contemplate it"
But the people contemplating it are the same Trumpist partisans who not only contemplated, but in some cases supported, the January 6 attack on the United States Congress. They may not be rational, but they…
"It consists simply of splitting your investment portfolio into 7 equal amounts, and investing one apiece in U.S. large-company stocks (the S&P 500 SPX, +2.28% ), U.S. small-company stocks (the Russell 2000 RUT, +2.26% ), developed international…
A truly impressive speech. That's the first time that I've actually heard the man for an extended commentary, and I really like what I heard. He certainly isn't going to roll over to McCarthy's bunch.
Speaking of McCarthy, the Democrats are going t…
"Is China intentionally under reporting their COVID death number?"
Do you really think that they would do something like that? It would be so out of character for them.
You don't understand... most posters are here to try and give others the benefit of their knowledge and experience. A few others are here to let us know how great they are.
That snake has given signed letters to the group of insurgents promising everything under the sun, but they know exactly what his word is worth. He's a total political whore. "ha ha" indeed.
"U.S. businesses such as Apple are already beginning to substitute Chinese manufacturing facilities with Indian ones."
If that works as well as the Indian "help desks", then may the gods help us all.
Would it be fair to suggest that Donald Trump has succeeded in lowering whatever passes for "standards" in the Republican Party to his own personal level?
Santos will find himself right at home in the House with Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, Marjory …
"I even have a few passwords that I don’t write down or file anywhere"
Exactly why using old telephone numbers that you already have stashed in your memory works well. Using the entire exchange name prefix with the first two letters capitalized plu…
"the tendency to seek out those whose opinions support whatever opinion we may already have."
AKA: "The need to feel better from knowing that other people have made the same stupid mistakes that you did" :)
A short History of Telephone Numbers-
The "2L-5N" numbering plan was originally designed for a time before the Bell System was upgraded to manual dialing by the telephone system customers themselves. Prior to that, all calls were connected by askin…
I don't use any sort of password manager- just one more piece of my life subject to someone else's control, as far as I'm concerned.
Being 83 does have some benefits: people of our age grew up with telephone numbers that had words as prefixes. For …
Based on the evening news program and especially the quality of the NewsHour coverage of the recent midterm election, I think that Amna Nawaz, Stephanie Sy, and Lisa Desjardins will do a very good job between them. I'm especially hopeful that Amna N…
@Derf- You know, advanced AI wouldn't need to resort to anything as crude as that. Why blow everything up when you can develop a few viruses that would get rid of 95% of humans and leave everything else standing and alive? It's for sure that the few…
It's going to take some doing to get used to Judy Woodruff not being there. She was kind of a rock of reality in my universe. I depended on her to help sort through the craziness.
There are surely some good people still there, but it won't be quite…
@LewisBraham- That VOX report is truly scary. It details how even the American developers of this technology are perhaps not being as careful as they should be in the constant development and improvement of this technology- "there’s a growing consen…
Derf, one of these days I'm gonna reach through this screen and wring your neck. :)
Have a great New Year, and please continue to keep us all guessing.
@hank- Of course there's a requirement to hold these type of assets for a particular time frame. That can be either a benefit or a potential problem, depending on the circumstances. If you know that you are not going to need that money for that time…
@Sven- We don't really need income in addition to our pensions and SS, so I'm not necessarily looking for the absolute highest rate. I'm primarily just trying to put in place some inflation protection for our savings, in safe medium-term instruments…
Speaking of interest rates, those of us who have been stocking up on bank CDs have certainly noticed a slow but sure deterioration in the rate being offered for 2 and 3 year CDs: 4.95% CD offerings are now down to 4.65%. This started a bit before th…
