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Oh, they mention it on and off, whenever they want a news splash on a slow day. It's perfectly safe to do so because they know that it will never happen.
I believe that what had been erected of the wall remains standing. If I remember correctly there were some piles of wall material which was unsuited for the terrain where it had been intended to be used, and that was sold for scrap.
I'm not super-s…
Yep- the bad guys are going to have a frigging ball with AI. The rest of us are going to be sitting there like sheep, wondering how we got sheared. This could easily mean the end of electronic commerce as we now know it.
Really glad that I'm as old…
However from that WSJ report:
But FDIC deposit insurance is considered near sacred. Any move that threatened to undermine even the perception of deposit insurance could quickly ripple through banks and in a crisis might compound customer fears.
Aft…
@FD1000- Thank you for once again reminding us what a fantastic genius you are. With all of the other important stuff that we have to keep track of we sometimes lose track of what you and your fantastic genius are up to. Hoping to hear more about yo…
"Forget investor protections, I fear for consumer protections going out the window."
From the perspective of our new improved executive office consumers have one and only one function: to be exploited to the maximum extent possible.
The only Google offering that I allow anywhere near my computers is Google Earth, for which there is no other option. Google has one and only one motivation: to find out as much about you as possible, and then to somehow commercialize that informati…
"Is McAfee really necessary on Mac products?"
I've been using Macs for some thirty years and have never needed McAfee or any other antivirus product. rforno is right- good ad-blocking software is all that you need.
i use the Firefox browser which …
I'm using SUTTX at Schwab as a holding operation, waiting to see what our shiny new and improved administration winds up doing re inflationary possibilities.
Well, there goes the Walgreens a block away from us. They already have tons of stuff locked away behind plastic doors to prevent theft. Life just gets better and better.
From a current report in The New York Times:
Ernst, Under MAGA Pressure, Signals Backing for Hegseth’s Pentagon Bid
Senator Joni Ernst, an Iowa Republican who is facing re-election in 2026, appeared less skeptical after President-elect Donald Trump…
@Sven- I hate to admit this, but I chanced to follow a "Waymo" vehicle around in SF traffic for a while the other day, and I was really quite impressed with the way that it handled itself. Very quick to recognize exceptions to normal traffic flow an…
At that time almost all of our investment money was with American Funds. They had various loads depending upon the total amount a customer had with them, and they combined the value of our two IRA accounts with our taxable trust account to determine…
When we were in our accumulation phase we held ABALX among other American Funds (Capitol Group) for many years. It did well for our needs. As a general rule I found American Funds to have better equity performance than bond performance, but ABALX wa…
No, but when I was a kid I used to eat my dog's MilkBones right in front of him just to drive him nuts. (They were actually pretty good.) Does that count?
Well, my wife is 83, and CDs are a good place for her as they are simple and straightforward and will continue to come due after I'm not here to juggle things. So a CD ladder out a few more years for her seems reasonable.
No, we cannot "unread" a thread. I might suggest a couple of thing, both sort of clunky-
• Copy the post of interest to a small "TextEdit" file (on a Mac) or similar text file on Windows.
• If you want to keep post info here on MFO, copy the post …
@Stillers- yes, I did the same, but our ladder is only out to the end of '27. I'm 85, and my wife is not financially intuitive, so I'm not at all sure how much further out to push that.
Normally I would agree with accepting lower CD rates as the Fe…
