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LewisBraham I think you pointed out the main issue. In Ford's time, the US was still a major manufacturing nation, so raising workers salaries created demand for manufactured products. Hedge fund managers don't produce anything-they just shuffle pap…
Yes-University of Utah 1989. Now Utah is known for something more provable-like beating USC in football twice this year! Big props to Utah on their season !
I hated writing papers in high school and college so reviewing ChatGPT would have been too great a temptation for me. As an accounting major, I managed my course load so that I only remember writing 4 papers, two of them group projects, after freshm…
+1 observant1 When countries like Uruguay and Portugal provide health insurance to all their citizens, you have to ask: Why can't the U.S. provide the same !!
Ave Maria Mutual Funds are owned by theocrat and pizza mogul Tom Monaghan. The Catholic Values he promotes are pro-life, anti- contraception, anti-premarital sex, laissez-faire capitalism. Predatory capitalism is never a problem for these Catholics !
+1 az There are Walgreens in Central Florida that no longer offer pharmacy services . Also, with the improving job prospects for pharmacists, why go to a private university like USC or St. John's when state universities are much cheaper ?
If I decide to play this trend I'll stick to EMB or FNMIX -hard currency funds that I can trade without transaction fees ! I don't have the expertise to deal with local-currency EM debt funds.
I kept small amounts in RPHYX (under $1000) and sold the rest to buy a variety of Brokered CD's. I'd rather lock in some attractive rates than wait for this fund to start returning 3% or more annually !
+1 Lewis Even, college commencement programs from 40 years ago are posted on the internet (my school and name posted)-including schools like Northwestern, Washington University in St. Louis and Notre Dame !
I would think that the treasury bill was priced at a discount, below 100, so that the effective yield would match the stated yield of a treasury bill issued today.
An American air base is located at the Romanian city referenced in the article. The base is also less than 300 miles from Tiraspol-capital of Transnistria, a breakaway Moldovan region currently occupied by Russian troops.
