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Anna
That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
Thanks everyone. I might be back after I mull it over. (My problem is I have always felt people overreact to these reports and wondered myself if we would be better off with less of them. But it is hard for me to consider information as a bad thing.)
I don't understand how a missing quarterly reports will "boost business" or "create jobs". @Ted - help me here. Do you find quarterly reports as detrimental to business and jobs. If so, why? What is the mechanism for missing reports to play into the…
Makes me wonder how the tax program vendors are coping and how much they will need to increase their prices if the information store is so, well, "messed" up.
Just paging through the discussions the last post with zero comments I found was July 28, two weeks ago today. I don't know if that means anything though.
@Anna, Admire the skillful wordsmithing evident through your lengthier piece
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wordsmithThe wordsmith's job is to make up bullshit on the spot.
?. OK.
@AndyJ "Agree. It can't be that hard to do, given that M* does it. "
I can tell the software developers from the MBAs at MFO. No need to modify the software again. The people who own this site treat us like kings but that's no reason to treat them …
Like chit-chat, TV, and video games, they are useful for fill the, otherwise, lengthy daylight hours of the extremely bored reader who longs to feel he/she is doing research and maintaining expertise.
But fun too.
I must admit that I think it will be good for some of the people born before civil rights to be gone. I grew up in MS Delta. The ratio of black to white even in the 50s was higher than average. The economy was such that all but the poorest whites co…
Trump = spooge.
Love the Internet; I found myself ignorant of the meaning of "spooge" and suspecting you meant Scrooge or something else, I sought the meaning of spooge. Maybe you meant spooge?
Noun. spooge (usually uncountable, plural spooges) Any …
Why shouldn't I just consider Putin and Trump to be two frat boys that suddenly found themselves with the power to just push buttons with no personal consequence in order to amuse themselves at other people/institutions expense. Kind of like a juven…
Hi crash... I gave Penfed... Very reason ble credit card and good ratecar/mortgage loans to borrow from fwiw
I received a maturity notice from PenFed yesterday. They emphasized their new early withdrawal penalty:
The penalty in the first year is al…
Thanks guys. I guess it is the way my thinking works. I immediately formed a picture of asking my brother-in-law in Oregon to manage my large Internet purchases by making an Oregon purchase as a gift to be delivered to me in Washington. Oregon is an…
It strikes me that, insofar as healthcare is concerned, there are instantaneous costs and long term costs. The instantaneous cost of lung cancer, for example, might be astronomical but only a fraction of the ordinary total cost, including Medicaid, …
OK, Time to play the SS Game from the American Academy of Actuaries:
http://socialsecuritygame.actuary.org/#make-your-choice-now
(If you feel you need more background on the game, start here instead:
http://www.actuary.org/content/try-your-hand-soc…
That is Japan Prime Minister Shinzō Abe. The body language said it all. Japan has vested interest in containing North Korea and its nuclear ambition.
Thanks, I totally misread it.
I think I draw the line when we ask for "personal responsibility" from our underprivileged 6 year olds. I think it is time for adults to think about providing an enriching environment for the children of this country instead of an ever increasing "y…
This quote from the ProPublica link seems somewhat obvious to me which is why I ceased to understand the "American way" a long time ago. It has something to do with self-reliance but I am not clever enough to appreciate the point. I've invisibly bee…
I talked to Alexa last night about this and she assured me (insisted, in tone) that she only records me when I invite her into the conversation. (She was ready for the question and had a rather long winded explanation of how she functions.) Occasion…
Perhaps we should recognize an entrepreneurial opportunity and start a "Comcast" type bundling of online publications for a single monthly subscription price that goes up up up as the content goes down down down. The masses will get a few classics w…
Growing up in Michigan in the 60s and coming of age in a sense in the early 70s, I recall how good life was for the working stiff. A high school education and good work ethics (showing up regularily and reasonably sober) would net a working couple…
How come no one in corporate America or the government has thought about the US Treasury returning the SS funds (aka the Trust Fund) that the government has absconded with since LBJ needed to find money to support his war in Vietnam.?
SSA - Debunk…
@MikeM - I chose to delay until age 70 but I was born before January 1, 1954 and am married so I could collect 1/2 spousal between age 66 (full retirement age) and age 70. My reason for delaying was to even out my husband's income if I should die an…
@Anna, if you happen to be dealing with TRP target date funds, they offer 2 options, but to me don't explain them well. They have for instance a 2020 "Target Date" fund that does change allocation as you get older. But they also have a "Retirement" …
My Daddy was a smart, but 8th grade educated man. He was actually good at math when he had to do something within his 8th grade education. But, he also deferred to people he thought knew more than he did. The local people at his job told him that he…
