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Can you use it in a sentence? Is it Latin in origin? National spelling bee is more interesting than any Super Bowl I've seen...
That one is simply, and nothing but, colloquial. :)
Ya. Oklahoma. Repugnant Insurgency member. Still thinks he's in the ring. Child. Idiot. But they elected him. I don't even want to talk about how savvy and smart and discerning American voters are. Cripes.
Just spectated today. Lotsa fun. I'm still buying. I like my stable of ponies, currently. Finally out of the red with BHB!!! I knew it would come. A couple hours from now, I'll check up on the funds. Even the junk bonds ought to have done well.
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Gotcha. But as I always say: be prepared for tomorrow's snap-back. And if Adam Parker was being interviewed at the end of the day, he could see what the Russell was doing, too. .... I hope and expect BRUFX jumped upward today. It's full of midcaps. …
WellCare Value Script PDP. That's mine. It bites. It truly bites. I don't yet need anything more expensive. My doctor helps a LOT with samples. The time may come when I bail out on this Part D Plan. It sucks year-old goose-eggs that have spent the w…
Shave every day? Hell, I gave that junk up a long time ago. Grew up Irish and Catholic. Poured into a stiff, unbending, inflexible mold while growing up. Stuck with it for too long. Then I made a marriage mistake, but it opened up a whole new world.…
Just spectated today. Lotsa fun. I'm still buying. I like my stable of ponies, currently. Finally out of the red with BHB!!! I knew it would come. A couple hours from now, I'll check up on the funds. Even the junk bonds ought to have done well.
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"...Should we be concerned? One way of looking at it is, you’re going to be spending that money on interest payments and you could be spending on something else. The chances are, though, we don’t spend on something else. We just give it away in the …
Playing with fire. Texas Rep. Chip Roy The Bald fills the seat that many of us wish had gone to Wendy Davis in that past election. The level of over-spending is nuts, yes. As long as the thinking persists which treats raising taxes as the Mortal Sin…
Yes, indeed: fund managers might surprise you! My portfolio X-Ray shows:
9% in small value and
5% in small blend.
How much of that 14% is the result of my own single-stock selections? It almost doesn't matter, eh? If what I really want is to AVOID…
Yes, I steer clear of small cap. It's the volatility. But looking at the portfolio in AVALX, I uncovered Ardmore Shipping out of Bermuda. Looks interesting to me. I don't want to be TOO diversified. "Diworsification," eh? But I have a long way to go…
@msf yes, you've actually stated it ACCURATELY. Thank you. That's what I meant. :).
She will have control over the money for longer, after I'm gone. She still has to wait until 59 and a half, I suppose, but her own spend-down can take lots longer,…
+1.
I/we have thought about a Roth conversion, but it feels like much ado about nothing. And my lawyer cousin tells me a Will is just unnecessary if we don't own any Real Estate. We have joint account everything--- and my wife's name is even on th…
holy cow. Along with Bear Stearns. Lehman. Merrill. Julius Baer? and the beat goes on.
Actor James Cromwell portrays Hank Paulson in this one. Anyone but me seen it? I wonder how true to life it is, the portrait of Paulson, offered in that movie? He…
@MikeM. @yogibearbull.
On second thought, Mike is correct. It might make sense to gift my son some money. We have a joint account back in California, but he has his own individual account, too. Might I send it THERE? I understand that there will ne…
Well, now! Great news! With reference to my question above, there might be a million ways to do it; can anyone here on the board offer a simple method? To gift to my wife? She is a US citizen. (Or son, within the $18k limit?)
My own Pension, SS, ga…
$18k gift exclusion for individuals. Suppose I want to gift $18k to my wife? The only account she has in her name ALONE is her Trad IRA. But..... there's no reportable earned income. She can't add to it, anyhow.
I just write her a check from our …
M*, about FAGIX: "High yield with a boost from equities." Which might help to explain the lower yield compared to some other junk stuff, like:
PRCPX. 7.21%
TUHYX 7.83%
VWEHX 5.98%
SCYB 9.1%
FFRHX. bank loans. 8.22%
ANGL. fallen angels. 8.07%
FALN. …
And yet, there are still climate change deniers all around and without even more pain we will not get any meaningful action. Barge traffic will probably be going to be diverted to roads and that will have more environmental impacts and our underfund…
