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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…
@dtconroe- good to hear from you again. We are in exactly the same situation as you describe. I recently bought a long-term Deutsche Bank bond at 5.75%, callable in two years (that MikeM found) from Schwab. However as msf mentions hoping for a call …
I regret to report that my board of director has rejected my request to double my allowance. She also said that "I'd better watch it". Not sure what that means, but it doesn't sound good.
@BaluBalu- yes sir, and that was also a major factor in the creation of the Off-Topic section- to move at least some of those debates out of the financial sections. With respect to the choice of sections when posting I do notice a deterioration in d…
Many years ago I saw Google for what it was becoming. I allow absolutely nothing associated with Google on my computers other than Google Earth, for which there is no substitute that I'm aware of.
The Biden pardon of his son's relatively minor criminal charges falls under the heading of actions that we all agree are fundamentally wrong and an abuse of the legal system, and that most of us would do anyway if we could.
