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That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
Maybe this thread over at retire-early might ease your mind. Everyone, or many, with older hotmail accounts started getting spammed like crazy several weeks ago. I set my hotmail account to block all incoming email except email from my brother-in-la…
Sorry, I deleted what I wrote because all I said was just guessing based on flimsy observations.
Which makes me curious as to what is not accounted for in that $2T. I can only guess.
Wipe the slate clean and start over. You will never resolve and will gain the onus of auditing the audit itself. Example, with all the Brac closings, what ya wanta bet there are property items from defunct posts acting as hanging chads in the audit …
Actually, I have been following this thread and shaking my head at the way the impossible species, human, might fail to see the light before darkness becomes our future. I did a Google for robot bees just to show an example of how something robotic …
Hint - Some SF insects and spiders have AI connections to their sensors. Be afraid; be very afraid. Spiders and lady bugs as well as the infamous (sic) earwig are everywhere. (Roaches don't make good recruits.)
There is no reason he could not be sentenced to Mar-A-Lago (or the Whitehouse if he won the next election) under permanent house arrest because of the unique problems posed by jailing an ex-President. Don't underestimate the outrageous privileges of…
I have a Facebook account but there isn't any information flying through it. I guess I don't know where this information highway is on Facebook. I suspect @Old_Joe also won't waste much time if he also doesn't find the information jumping out at him…
Where I live the Amazon delivery has become uncertain. Orders are "out for delivery" on the promised day and, by the end of the day, they are listed as delayed. When the USPS tracking is pulled up at the USPS site, it appears that the delivery repor…
I found the following unsettling:
Some Federal Agencies Aren't Fulfilling Biden's Promise to Give Time Off to Vote
Federal employees are not given "off" time to vote as a general rule. Apparently, the President asked the agencies to give them off t…
@Old_Joe When it looks like the inflation cycle is coming under control and the Fed is settling down, then deploy all of your remaining available cash, looking for maximum rates, maximum duration, and definitely non-callable.
Just let me know when …
@Crash, I am not registered either. When I clicked the link it took me to the bottom of the page where, yes, it appeared I needed to register. I happened to notice the scroll bar was down at the lower level and when I grabbed it and pulled it back t…
The Guardian says Krugman calls it Trussonomics. It begs a compare chart of Reaganomics, Thatchonomics, and the new Trussonomics so the average guy can decide which model to buy.
@hank ;)
Well, I guess my actual assumption is that, at my age and for bond funds with a lot of Treasuries, I might not live to see rates return to previous lows and, since I don't need the income, the NAV is unlikely to increase and the value is mo…
Question - So, I go over to Market Watch and the 1st headline mentions a bond "crash". When equities "crash", they, in my lifetime, recover quite nicely. How do bonds recover? Noone is going to want to buy the losers that are in a crash when there a…
I recall that, in the early 2000s, I began to annoy people with passionate conversation about "just in time (j-i-t)" models of manufacturing, a major theme of my required course work with the federal government. I had a broad view of how the governm…
@msf Thanks for the additional information. As I said, I have not dug deeply into the Medicare B consequences. It looks like I will need to take your information and spend some time on the question. I just used the tables and based my guesses on my …
What's next a SUZE or SUZEO fund? If you were tasked with putting together a MFO ETF, what would it look like? A little MOO, a little FOO and a tad of OOO?
It turns out that deferred accounts are deadly for some widows. The following is an estimate I have made of the federal tax and Medicare B consequences of my husband's death.
Although my income including RMDs from both accounts goes down 19.12%, my…
Yes, it is going to be interesting and potentially disastrous if the Supreme Court undermines the security of the country in order to push a political agenda that would undermine the rule of law. If so, what the scripter of the majority decision say…
I also moved mine to December. After this year, however, I wonder if the RMD, taken on January 1, would be a better timing for the end of the previous year.
@LewisBraham Of course. On the other hand, I know more well-off people who believe they deserve a handout than less well-off people. Just as long as you call it something that sounds important and skip the talking points like "welfare for the rich".…
The TSP is what it is. I might, however, point to the L income performance. While most elderly retirees have lost about 15% in most commercial target retirement income funds, retirees in L income have only lost 6%. The G has crept up a bit but doesn…
It just seems to me that, somewhere around the late 50s to early 80s we quit building and started talking about building. Is that the true difference in progressive and conservative as they evolved or is it what it seems to be - just a spoiled self-…
