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@AndyJ - I’m lookin’ at the 2-yr treasury as well, and wondering if on 6/24 it’ll still be 4.74? Vanguard is showing 4.734.
Right, it's fairly common for yields to sell off even the morning of an auction. I've seen that enough, I don't put in an ord…
Or the 2y T showing at 4.74 right now; auction 6/25 if that's appealing. I'll prob'ly take a bite of that in the taxable account if the yield holds up fairly well between now and then.
DJT down 14.56% today after sharp losses Tuesday (-8 %) as well. Brings up the question - how many worthless DJT stock certificates can you stuff into a Tesla pickup and drive both into a permanent landfill?
But @Mark, it's not just a pickup, it's a…
No, haven't seen the movie; seems it won some accolades at Sundance, which is great. (I see the abusive instructor was played by the Farmers' Insurance ad fellow.)
Hoping for more cool (er, less hot) and precip here for the summer; recent projectio…
@AndyJ : It's been a few years, but I can remember being dam happy to get three %. That was for 2 year CD. I started reaching out a few months early , but such is the life of an investor. Interesting times await us ! Rolling some early, rolling s…
Good call on the junk munis. I have one, a CEF, on a limited watchlist, but I missed its blast up to "not now" z-stat levels just in the past week or so. Plan to expand that list.
But right, high-ish for longer isn't out of the picture yet.
@rforno: Didn't feel 100% going into floaters at this point in time, especially in large amounts. Rather than cogitate about it too much, I just went with a straight treasury fund instead ... will draw that down as I buy other equities over the nex…
Great video. A friend had an amazing experience going to Normandy for the 75th. The people there still revere the USA for what our people did then; there are monuments all over.
Those guys in the wheelchairs? The original "Antifa."
According to AOC, in a New Republic post I can't link for some reason, it was all planned. Somehow during the chaos the Rs passed a rule to bypass debate and amendment and proceed directly to a vote to declare Garland in contempt.
"Vapor Premier" uniforms?? Did they specify WHAT vapor? I love promo phrases that don't sound all that great.
One of my favorites: the university in town made a bunch of promo mugs ~ 10 years ago that read: "2013-14: The Year of Engaged Leadership.…
I'd love to see him behind bars, but it will never happen. (Shit.) He WILL surely breach the gag order again.
I'd be satisfied with cuffing his hands behind his back and duct-taping his mouth.
msf: "IMHO that's the argument for using multiple types of these funds."
Bingo. And you don't have to hold the same ones forever. Re: MINT, this is 2024, not 2022, and it's been steadily outpacing funds like JPST and ICSH. The funds with more corpo…
Great musician. Saw him twice only in person: 1972 and ~ 2008 or thereabouts, after his (first?) huge health crisis. Poor guy was physically a shadow of his former self, but still had enough of his voice quality and range for the concert to be memor…
Buying at the 2y T auction Tuesday, unless the rate plunges first thing in the a.m. like it's done a few times in the past, in which case I'll likely cancel before it goes thru. Like with others, the bump up in rates is the attraction, especially wi…
Sorry @Old_Joe, many of us had managed to forget Orenthal J. until this new barrage of media coverage happened. Even Kato Kaelin (a "media personality" today) got his mug out there again.
"Press 98 if you're frustrated and wish to terminate the call, which is what we've wanted all along. Every CSR we have to hire reduces the CEO's pay, and we can't have that."
I owned the AQR equity market neutral fund (QMNNX is the N share class) in 2016 and a chunk of 2017, when it was doing extremely well -- and then it took a dive until 2021-ish. It's done very well again since.
It's done better overall vs. QDSNX sin…
NC State has come out of no-where to win the ACC tournament and now deep into this tournament. Clemson wasn't great either all year, but they both got hot at the right time.
I haven't read enough about NC State to have any idea what might have jell…
Two top guards had less than stellar games, and out go 2-seed AZ and 1-seed NC.
Good on Illinois - best they've done since getting all the way to the championship game in 2005, with a terrific three-guard offense. They were sure fun to watch.
Ma…
It matters a lot what the specific investments were. Value equity has done poorly compared to growth, and your bonds were probably whacked since 2021 (especially if your sector allocation was index-y, and duration was about the index/aggregate or lo…
"Underfunded" is the operative word; much of that touted replacement funding (for the cuts of the last decade) in the bill last year has been swept away in budget "negotiations." Guess who's behind those cuts.
They can't keep their website up to da…
Thursday: UConn vs. San Diego St., Iowa St.-Illinois, North Carolina-Alabama, Clemson-Arizona. Getting into "must watch" territory for every game.
Gonzaga-Purdue Friday.
Give me basketball over the latest criminal news forever and a day.
@Crash, Oregon had three contributing players out for the season with injuries. They rode (primarily) Couisnard and Dante as far as they could, and it was enough to win the Pac-12 tourney, which is the reason they got into the Dance at all.
The on…
Like Mark Few said in the post-game, the Zags played 40 minutes of great offense and 20 minutes of great defense. That's good enough to beat just about anybody. They seem to be jelling at just the right time, tho of course there's no guarantee they'…
