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Sven
Lynn,
Thank you so much. I am planning on a 3-year ladder since I am a year away from retirement. Lots of spreadsheet work to calculate the income replacement needed. This ladder will create a steady income stream. So thank you for all your help.
I moved back to high quality bond funds this year. Some of which you covered in the SA article. For now, I will stay with agency bonds to the bond ladder. I will pick active managers for corporate bonds.
Sven
@crash, you are invited to ice fishing with us, then go skinny dipping in a frozen pond. So refreshing. Just kidding. We been to Hawaii and it is beautiful!
Despite the seemingly authoritative language of the original Constitution Alito and Thomas are quite capable of abandoning their preferred "original intent" interpretations and torturing their opinions to meet any far-right need of the moment. "Wha…
He got irritated when a reporter asked him about the TACO trade. He is all barks but no bite. His tactics are poorly conceived and constructed. One would think he uses his trading team as sounding board before he announced his intent. Having a te…
Thank you for sharing. Others personal reasons may be the bigger drivers such as geopolitical and being close to family. For us, weather is not a factor to move south. The combined heat and humidity drive us north instead.
@Mona, will done.
More tariffs consequences : Pigs can't fly: US high-end livestock breeders lose millions in China tariff fallout
Dr. Mike Lemmon's pigs, each valued between $2,500 and $5,000, were supposed to be on a plane bound for Hangzho…
I fully appreciate the developing problems here in the US, but hopefully we should look beyond the current administration for the longer term picture.
@Old_Joe, I hear you. Slow growth has been a persistent issue in EU as the article highlighted…
Hard to pin point where the flaw came from in these professions, whether they are due to the training, the job itself, lack of empathy to their fellow person, or combinations of these factors. Something is not right with these custom officials as t…
There is little to gain from this sort of visit. It is all about power play.
Heard earlier that Trump will visit China to complete the deal. So he blinked! This will be the most challenging one to complete.
For now, yields on long bonds are rising quickly. 20 years treasury is being auction today with 5.0 % yield, an all time high. If the sale does not go well, it will be messy tomorrow. Bond traders are not so happy with the increased deficit from …
Ray Dalio versus Tom Lee, and their assessment. Who is right?
https://benzinga.com/economics/macro-economic-events/25/05/45499508/dalio-sees-danger-tom-lee-sees-dip-buy-whos-right-about-the-us-credit-downgrade
Treasury yields rise as expected from Moody's downgrade on Monday, May 19, 2025. 30 years yield rose over 5.0%, all time high for the year.
https://cnbc.com/2025/05/19/us-treasury-yields-moodys-downgrades-us-credit-rating.html
This One Beautiful Bill would increase the deficits by $3 trillion through 2034.
Edits: By the end of Clinton’s administration, there was no federal deficit but a surplus! This was accomplished from careful and thoughtful trimming federal budge…
I highly recommend watching an IMAX movie on volcanoes.. The surround sound system is very realistic as one is in middle of an eruption. Some people scream as rocks are flying everywhere.
We visited Johnstone Ridge Observatory 20 years after Mt. St. Helen eruption, and still it was hard to comprehend the magnitude of nature force.
The visitor center provides much information on the Ring of Fire.
https://usgs.gov/faqs/what-ring-f…
Walmart and Apple are private companies and they answer only to their shareholders like you and me. These companies focus on their operational cost that translates to earnings. That is what capitalism is all about.
Unless one is willing to pay an …
Got to get a kick out of this “all bark and NO bite”.
Asian Leaders See Right Through Trump’s Tariff Man Act
President Donald Trump just taught a masterclass in how to lose a trade war. His spectacular retreat on China tariffs in Geneva this we…
It has been fine, fine days to move $ overseas. With dollar falling and rising treasury yields, what can go wrong? Got to love the Seafarer and CrossBridge funds. Oversea indexes are leading US indexes by wide margins.
I placed my buys on Sunday night and they executed on Monday. We are set with our allocation so Monday rally did not matter to us. Look like the outage is not that severe and long lasting. It would be interesting to see where the money flow to.
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Fidelity brokerage suffered a temporary outage due to heavy volume on their website. S&P 500 nearly made it back positive territory since Libration day.
As a publicly traded security, it has to comply to SEC reporting regulations. What are the outstanding risks to the market and investors of having Coinbase/COIN in S&P500 in the future?
Why does he cry about ? Remember that Roberts empowered Trump in the earlier ruling and this is the direct result.
https://newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-john-roberts-has-empowered-a-lawless-presidency
If anything else, Roberts needs to use st…
One poster quoted The plane is a Trojan Horse...one that only Trump is STUPID ENOUGH to accept.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NcYwp-4e0MA
This is a nightmare for the sake of national security. Can one imagine how many bugs that be planted throughout…
Interesting article from Bloomberg on this trade de-escalation, and China got what they wanted.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/xi-defiance-pays-off-trump-212056893.html
@Observant1. Link above take it elsewhere bit not PBS. Hope this link work better.
https://pbs.org/newshour/show/whats-next-for-trumps-trade-war-after-pausing-tariffs-with-china
Having the right team to negotiate makes a big difference. Noted that Navarro and Luttnick are not part of the team. Important point is to get the agreement to stick this time.
Thanks. As for the white background, I would tape large sheet of white paper on a table as the background. The other way is to scan it on your printer and save the image as jpeg file. We wish to travel to Canada this year.
I helped my daughter …
Hi catch22, those media channels you mentioned allow the spreading of disinformation and propaganda. Facebook and X are some of the worst offenders. That is where many people gets their daily information.
Even when information available is inco…
