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”Home run swing off for the win. Are you shitting me?!”
My thoughts too. What a sham. The game should have been called a tie. I do understand that in a fun contest like this the benches get depleted so all can participate. And these players need…
Kaline broke his hand once slamming a bat into the bat rack in anger I recall. Not sure what precipitated that. But maybe a strike out / bad call by an ump.
I had relatives in Hazel Park, Dearborn and other metro regions in the late 50s and early …
Hank. Al Kaline, Old paw paw,,, Norm Cash. You remember these guys right?
Yeah Larry. I think of Kaline all the time. What a class act on and off the field. I believe Detroit was the only MLB team he ever played for. Yeah - Cash at first base. Wi…
"Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder data seemed to indicate the fuel control switches were physically moved to the cutoff position. Deliberate human intervention was involved."
Thanks. Wow. Wonder how I missed that - if it’s accura…
talk about off-topic!
Right on! @Ted :)
@Old_Joe sometimes moves these types of threads to off-topic after a brief debut here. Perhaps @Crash will so consider.
VUSXX currently has a 7 day SEC yield of 4.18% (4.27% APY). It should be mostly state tax exempt and if you don't like dealing with Vanguard is available through E*Trade.
FSIXX currently has a 7 day SEC yield of 4.16% (APY 4.25%). You can get …
@Old_Joe - July 12 you said, “At this point It's certainly seeming as if one of those two pilots deliberately crashed that airplane.”
Has your initial thinking in that regard changed substantially as new information has come to light?
Further … A…
Captain Mohan is only person in India that has publicly said that pilot is likely responsible.
For our own sake, let us hope he is right. I’d hate to believe the plane capable of shutting down engines on its own. The timing is curious. At any al…
Thanks @lynnbolin2021 -
Bloomberg is reporting that the number was “below consensus projections” - whatever that means - and it continued a multi-month trend (of below consensus).
It’s always fun to play around with those numbers. Assuming someo…
Trivial …
I still say there’s nothing quite like the experience having your opening deposit into Fido arrive in a check from TRP that bounces a day after you’ve already used the pending deposit to buy a bunch of funds, and thereby immediately being…
Yeah. Interesting. I’ve never heard of a driver switching off the ignition while cruising down the highway, either on purpose or inadvertently. And I rather doubt my Toyota would comply with such a command were I to so attempt.
Yeah. Great to hear that @Wtlutz. There used to be someone here who was very happy with service rendered by T. Rowe Price. Never been with VG. So the accounts from you, Derf & others who do use them are valuable.
Thanks @Old_Joe for the analysis. That’s how it looks to me. One source I can’t seem to pull back up mentioned the plane had been recently serviced (a day before) and ISTM it was related so some other flight controls. Let’s hope it wasn’t the same …
One time while flying first class a guy being seated across the aisle began bitching loudly because someone had put a “tiny” bag in the overhead and he needed the room for a much bigger one. The “tiny” bag was my carry-on. (However on some smaller j…
Pretty good article on 787 fuel cut-off switches. It does mention concerns they could be accidentally activated.
Also - Bloomberg reports that the First Officer was flying the plane.
Vanguard ranked last out of eight major brokerages for customer satisfaction with website performance and mobile apps in a recent survey of 2,700 investors conducted by Investor’s Business Daily:
Case in point, I had a frustrating website experien…
”Maybe higher for longer in rates?
That would be my guess. It’s a near certainty Powell will be replaced with a more liberal Fed chair hell-bent on cutting rates at the short end when his term expires in May (if he doesn’t quit sooner). To the exte…
“Another Malaysia Air-like instance???”
The mystery of Malaysia Airlines MH 370 has never been solved despite intensive international effort. Yes, an intentional water landing / crash landing has been highly speculated and may be the leading the…
I’ve never invested in the S&P 500, although over the years some of my funds have held some S&P stocks. So the perceived valuation of the S&P is of little interest to me - although a lot of investors fixate on it. It is, however, of i…
I am old now. I look for every opportunity to celebrate.
Yes - With arthritis and carpel tunnel just successfully filling out a single check is reason to celebrate.
The checks arrived today, 2 weeks after purportedly being shipped. Thanks all for the wise advice and support. I haven’t opened the parcel yet but there appear to be enough checks in it to last 25 years or longer.
A very large thread topic drift has taken place …
True. And there’s been a lot of “drift” since @equalizer first initiated this thread in January 2020. It was before Joe Biden was elected President. It would be another month or so before “Covid”…
A lot of old Kiplingers are on line at google books. They're always good for a blast from the past before the internet.
Some of the old Playboys are pretty good too. The April April 1987 edition features an “exclusive interview” with the great Lou…
"if it gets folks on the road to saving and investing, that's a good thing"
Absolutely. In our case it was an advisor who made his living peddling American Funds, which at the time had a hefty front load. However, his knowledge and advice went well…
Been waiting for the day when I can lose money on three continents in one day.
:)
The current thinking (reading from financial sources) is that the retail investor has been driving the recent rally. So these extended trading hours available to yo…
Thanks for the added information Yogi. I’m thinking checks may have become more digitized today than most of us realize. The image of some astute clerk sitting behind a desk with thick spectacles carefully comparing the signature on file with that…
Great questions. I read Larry’s post in OT and the situation sounds like insanity. But I left Citi 15-20 years ago. It seemed then they were more interested in trying to (aggressively) sell me things than servicing the credit card account I had with…
