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Same angry voices. I sleep well regardless and don't pay attention to polls.
Mona: FD1k loves to preach "momo" except when it does not fit his narrative.
FD: can you explain the personnel attack? ho, I get it, you lost money year to date while I…
Remember - once you die you don't need insurance. Obamacare is too expensive. I will be paying 11,000 US$ for Cobra coverage for my wife on high deductible insurance plan once I leave my cozy company plan. God Bless America.
Cult Member, your man ha…
I am with Fd1K, Trump will win. There is just two outcome - win or loose. We love what he brings to the table - Fd1K will be able to elaborate.
Trump may win and yes, FD1K certainly will be able to elaborate on Wednesday, November 4 on how many elec…
It's still only June.....
... and this *is* 2020, you know.
I certainly agree. While we know that Trump is incoherent, that has become the norm. Biden is prone to gaffes, which concerns me very much because they will be less forgiving.
FD1k love…
That was funny.
James Carville in 09/2016 (link) "It’s hard to look at it right now and come to any other conclusion than it is going to be a pretty sizable win for the Democrats"
NY Times 10/2016 Hillary Clinton has a 91% chance to win - The Ne…
It is so sad to see a candidate like Biden with health issues. I wouldn't let him manage a small business with 10 employees. Why his family and friends don't tell him the truth?
And then there is Trump, regardless of what you think he will be el…
@FD1000
Global equity weak today (Monday, June 15) and U.S. equity market open appears to be weak. VIX trying to push above 41 again. Treasury issues happy, pre-market (Sept. contracts) 'Course, this doesn't always translate to other bond sectors; a…
By Old_Skeet's mythology the S&P 500 Index is gextremely overbought. I'm now leaning towards trimming my equity allocation now that I'm pretty close to getting back towards even.
Can stocks go hgher? Absoutely. And, I hope they do!
Looks li…
OMG, the lib media is in shock, they expected at least 7 million job losses and they got +2.5 million gain. The 2.5 million came without help from NY+CA which are still shut down.
It's terrible for them but good for America.
Then came their usual,…
Too bad he didn’t get to attend the funeral. Who knows what he might have said?
I can think of another reason why it's too bad that he didn't attend the funeral.
Mona, you said you concluded it was a scam. Meaning that the scammers made it look like they obtained your password, but really didn't?
Does anybody know how hackers may be able to steal Vanguard passwords? That's extremely concerning...
No, it w…
Vanguard is horrible if you require interaction.
A few weeks ago, I received a troubling email (blackmail) that included my Vanguard password (not user name). While I suspected that it was a scam, clearly my password was hacked. In addition to tur…
Trump declared that breathing is good for you.
What the Dems are going to do?
Cry for another 4 years?
Open more investigations?
Trump just exposes politicians of both sides at their own games, he is rude, not apologetic and it drives the Dems and t…
Instead of trying to cure the covid19 plague, scientist need to work on curing liberalism, as that is the worst disease EVER & likely has caused more deaths and ruined more lives than every war, disease, dictator, genocide combined!
"Watching …
msf, thanks for your post.
VMSXX - up to and including 3-13, the daily market value was $1.00 and above. 3-16 through 3-24, the daily market value ranged from $0.9986 to $0.9998 (fortunately carried out to four decimal places). 3-26 and 3-27, the v…
FD1000,
I'm sure that you will take a crack at Mark's questions. When you are finished, I have only one.
By chance, is this your most favorite task force expert?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/factcheck/ap-fact-check-trump-gets-a-reality-check-on…
I have put some money into Investment Grade Muni bond oefs and Investment Grade Intermediate Core Plus bond oefs recently. They are on a short leash, and I am watching them very closely.
dtconroe, may I ask which ones?
Mona
Are those of you investing in muni bond funds doing so in taxable accounts only?
Not all brokerage houses allow you to purchase a muni bond fund in a retirement account. I'm sure FD will comment on this.
Where were you, Dear Leader?
https://msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-lost-month-how-a-failure-to-test-blinded-the-us-to-covid-19/ar-BB11Qo84
Why holding the next pep rally, of course. But rest assured, incompetence is not sustainable.
DJT
msf, once again, thanks for your informative post.
This is a question a friend posed to me. His 2019 taxes were filed a few weeks ago. His AGI was just under $73,000 (line 8b). Included in that was an RMD from an Inherited IRA of a bit over $8,000 …
@Mona- Thanks for that- it's very similar to the Schwab layout. I need a list that is able to include funds from Schwab, American Funds, and American Century, and no mutual fund company is going to provide that kind of info for competing fund compan…
@Old_Joe - I am not familiar with Schwab's website but here is the page from Vanguard. Same idea.
https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/portfolio/vmsxx
msf, could Vanguard prop up or support (I am not certain what this mean) VMSXX so that it does not deviate by more than a cent from $1.00, thus not have the need to re-price its shares to something other than $1.00 (breaking the buck), resulting in …
@johnN, I don't know about this warmer weather thing. Panama has daily temperatures in the low 90s excluding the highlands. It is a country of 4 million people. Today, they went to a full day curfew in an attempt to flatten the curve. 440+ cases, up…
That's a good question. These days I haven't been paying too much attention to muni MMFs because they're paying less than online bank accounts (after tax). So it doesn't make much sense to take on their additional risk. (Aside from consideratio…