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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
No aviation expert here. I tend to agree with Sullenberger’s decision to land the plane manually. His long distinguished record was achieved with good decision making. Aviation errors often are lethal and not forgiving.
Thanks @crash, that is very informative of what Russia is thinking on this conflict. Often I find Al Jazeera has broader coverage on global news than the mainstream channels.
@Derf, don’t think Iran his reach the stage where they can make their f…
Exactly. They talk focus how much Medicaid cut will be. Adding $5 trillions debt in the next 10 years. The accrued interest will be huge! That is one of the driving force that investors are moving away from the greenback as the safe haven.
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@JD_co, Agree with your assessment . Low growth and elevated inflation provides stagflation that could be really bad on multiple fronts. It took 100 days to destroy the western alliances that took several decades to form. Powell is doing the right…
Whenever possible I like to have the data verified independently by several sources. Having quality content is important. Some sites including Reuters and BBC have degraded in my opinion. Bloomberg is good but it requires subscription.
Trump needs to form local MAGA party branches to enforce compliance
Mobilizing ICE agents as his brown shirt soldiers has been his plan all alone. He fell asleep several times while looking bore the other time just like the First Lady.
The WH’s tactics is to divide and conquer with each nation. It is no going smoothly as they initially thought. Additionally, alliances made previously are breaking down.
Wherever he speaks in public, someone else wrote his speech. Then he wonder off to elsewhere. Glad he was never invited as a distinguished commencement speaker at major universities.
He was hoping for the Nobel peace prize by ending the Ukraine war in ONE day. The Libration day is total burst. He will walk into a bear trap with Iran before he recognizes it.
How convenient that he spins it? This put Putin in a tough spot. A real test of friend vs. foe.
IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON . implies the war will be escalated. Like it or not, US will be part of it in supporting Israel.
What are goo…
they ask for settlement in euros, Chinese renminbi, the Mexican peso and the Canadian dollar,
Totally agree. US dollar felt 8% in the last 5 months versus major currencies. Same goes to merchants who are getting paid with dollar at lower value. …
JD_co said, S&P futures seem to indicate no worries.
The situation continues to evolve. Will wait to see if conflict spread to other Middle East countries. This maybe an opportunities to build positions already planned.
@ Shostakovich, Tweedy Browne is trying to survive the competition while maintaining its AUM. I firmly believe you can find other international value OEFs or ETFs. Online brokerages such as Schwab, Fidelity and Vanguard offer many choices equivalen…
This explains the rise of oil prices, US used to import majority of oil from Canada. This helps to stabilize gas prices. Now that relationships no longer exists.
US is evacuating embassy family members from Iraq and several Middle East countries.
Paul McCartney of the Beatles likes The Beach Boys, especially on how well they harmonize their distinctive cool tunes. They still bring the happy days of my childhood. RIP, Brian.
Jeff is wise since high yield bonds have positive asset correlation to stocks, while high quality investment grade bonds do not. Junk bonds are vulnerable to severe drawdown such as 2020 pandemic. Treasury, on the other hand, held we well.
I agree.
The world largest car manufacturer, Toyota, is jumping in to work with Waymo on self driving technology. With this heavy financial backing, this will propel Waymo far ahead of Tesla.
https://caranddriver.com/news/a64644557/toyota-waymo…
That is a really bad sign! In the meantime, Tesla stock is losing its market share in multiple fronts. Tesla self driving feature will cost more $$ in order to activate that feature. BYD is offering it’s self driving capability for free. In Europ…
Terry Moran’s non-renewal has less to do with ABC’s pompously-stated policy than with parent company Disney’s sweaty campaign to appease the fascistic Trump regime. This is the same company, after all, who shoveled $15 million into his trough last …
Terry Moran’s non-renewal has less to do with ABC’s pompously-stated policy than with parent company Disney’s sweaty campaign to appease the fascistic Trump regime. This is the same company, after all, who shoveled $15 million into his trough last …
That is a violation of Taco Bell’s trademark on Cheeto taco. Does not look appetizing. Probably smell funny too.
Round two Taco trade is coming up with China. Low pain tolerance will get him back down to where he started before escalating to 14…
Here is data for the month of May’s inflation data.
Consumer prices in May were up 2.4% from a year ago, according to a report Wednesday from the Labor Department. That's a slightly larger annual increase than the month before.
But prices rose j…
Thanks for sharing the info. YTD performance of their OEF matches PIMIX closely. Don’t know their strategies well enough whereas Pimco’s team is well recognized. Vanguard seldom if ever gives interviews from their team, so it is more like a black …
Today is the third day of China-US negotiations. China holds the monopoly on rare earth metals while they want access to high end semiconductor technology, especially those AI chipsets and processes. These dual uses AI can extend to military uses …
Many had wishful thinking of 5-6 rate cuts this year. FED announced to hold rate flat until September’s meeting as inflation lingers. My bet is there will be no rate cut this year. The tariffs has yet taken full effect on the economy.
Holding m…
@MrRuffles, thanks. It is good to found that In-kind transfer is okay for D&C funds. The same situation is also allowed at Fidelity as I transferred Vanguard funds to them. I talked with their representatives and confirmed the allowance prior …
Thanks @Catch22 for the link and the protest across the country.
For those of you who will participate in them. Just be careful as the national guard are enforcing non-lethal arsenal (rubber bullets and tear gas) against protesters. On Sunday or…
None of these are any good. Several months ago, we froze our credit lines when we were notified that our SSN were exposed in the dark web. Right now, we monitor our credit reports carefully.
Getting access to one’s social security record can a…
