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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
It is arguably as MSF describes it—blend—a blue chip stock with its heady growth days in the past.
Agree with msf and Lewis assessment. The fast growing business (iPhones, computers, music, and AppleTV) since Steve Jobs's returned has plateaued. In …
the current administration had no transition plan and was not ready to take power in January, 2017. Grifters and inhabitants of the swamp saw the opportunity and cashed in.
So true and it gets worse towards the end. In addition, the incompetence fr…
I would use VT in taxable account so not having to pay large capital gain. Sometime having a market return is good enough. YTD return of VT is about 10.2%.
One can have both in their tax deferred accounts if they wish.
Janet Yellen's will instill confident in investors. The market reacted quite favorably when she was announced as the Treasury Secretary, particularly finance and energy sectors.
Why it matters: The Treasury secretary wields enormous power in policy…
Janet Yellen is an excellent choice as the treasury secretary. She has confirmed as Fed chairwoman under Obama administration. So her confirmation would be easier. Furthermore she will help to get the employment back on track unlike Mnuchin.
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Thanks for the link. In addition, John Hopkins also provides a detail globally on infected cases and death. Under US maps, one can see county by county.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/us-map
These are click baits to get reader's attention. I have a decent allocation of gold going into this year and it has performed well throughout the year. Sold a bit when it reached over $2,000 an ounce and now is back in mid $1800. I will buy more w…
When I travel in FL and NJ, I make sure to get a car equipped with an electronic toll pass that pays the toll booths automatically. Out west there are few toll roads.
As part of their security all brokerages these days track your IP address. When it is different from the common ones they ask for text code or email code to authenticate the users. It improve security on your behalf. Do you bookmark Vanguard site …
This is worse than Jim Jones's People Temple,
https://theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/11/drinking-the-kool-aid-a-survivor-remembers-jim-jones/248723/
If that is natural selection for being anti-science, so be it.
Do know that thermofisher. TMO. Mfgs fridges that can store vaccines at low temps
ThermoFisher has been a long time holding in PRWCX. A nuts and bolts approach to gain exposure to health care sector.
Trimmed equity a bit and increase cash posit…
COVID-19 can do wonder to your brain, but not smarter.
Nearly 20 percent of COVID-19 patients developed a mental health issue — like depression, anxiety, or dementia — within 3 months of diagnosis, according to a new study.
Researchers evaluated t…
Sweet! Also Matt Gaetz, a Florida representative also tested positive.
https://politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/11/07/gaetz-waltz-test-positive-for-coronavirus-1334922
Exactly. This is very dangerous for the national security. This needs to change quickly after January 20th.
He is also installing loyalists in the National Security Agency (NSA) so to ensure his influence over the intel community.
https://nyt…
@bee, thank you. Very timely indeed. Countries who able to control the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to move their economy forward, and to positive GDPs.
Holy cows! These brave men and women are working in hazardous environment just like in COVID units in hospitals. This virsus can become airborne and very infectious in indoor environment. The indoor rallies are perfect super-spreader events.
The …
Thank you for the plot. I watch the indices as they diverted this week. Seem like the changes correspond to the vaccine news. Everyone is hoping Pfizer vaccine will be available in January 2021.
REIT and utility sectors are coming back. My val…
What a joke. RNC announced layoff to their staff only a week after the election. Many are trying to find other jobs just as COVID-19 cases are rising rapidly. What a mess.
In its latest Form 13F filing, Warren Buffet invested $597,856,475 in Barrick gold (miner stock). His investment is evolving as many of decision are made by his successors.
https://forbes.com/sites/robertberger/2020/08/28/warren-buffetts-gold/?sh=…
There are also four other staff affected as well but their names have not be disclosed. Knowing the potential medical consequences of COVID-19 one needs to avoid it at all cost. Perhaps this is how nature selection works.
Agree. I don't get it even for common vaccines for kids that many parents refuse to have their children immunized as part of the health requirement in order to enroll in public schools.
I believe that was the partnership developed between them. Pfizer has the know-how on the scale-up production and the distribution of the vaccine. Same arrangement also exists between Oxford University and AstaZenecca for their vaccine.
William Barr who is a lap dog loyal to Trump and thus he is a keeper.
Trump fired
Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, the first woman to oversee the agency in charge of the nuclear stockpile. She w…
I would not go near the WH without a hazmat suit and a full respirator.
When you see all of them mass gathering without face coverings, can you say playing Russian roulette? Who is next tomorrow?
@Mark, I am not a pharmacist, but we have doctors and surgeons in our family. Typical 2-shot vaccines are spaced out 60 days for the second booster shot. The goal is to maintain certain antibody concentration in the blood steam for a specific time …
@FD1000,
You need to know the facts. The vaccines are still in Phase III testing. Today's results from Pfizer is very encouraging, but there is lots of work before they are "distributed" to the general population. Key challenges are:
1. How to s…
No gut to invest in miners. I stay with what I know just gold, IAU. Took some profit when it peaked over $2,000/ounce. The low correlation to equity makes it a good hedge as First Eagle fund to use it for a long time. Also inflation is concerning…
