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@Ted: Interesting that you have made that decision at this point in time. I've been very close to the same decision, and now I'm thinking that I'll follow you on this. The next market cycle is certainly not going to be upwards, and given our ages, w…
"somebody has to be buying"
@ET91- Adding to Old Skeet's observation, remember that there are a lot of different scenarios out there regarding what may be appropriate for one person (or entity) at any given point in time. Whoever is presently buyin…
@Catch22- Well, as a (half) Italian veteran, I must admit that I'm pretty confused by all of this. It was especially irksome when I had to go to work on Veteran's Day, while my totally non-veteran wife got the day off. Then again, after teaching fo…
@rono- Hello there! You're sounding rather apocalyptic today... why do you feel that a Democratic congress would be so devastating? Your political opinions and leanings are usually pretty well-balanced and even-handed, so this seems out of context f…
Yes, a mentality like Trump would do the same sort of thing in an instant if he thought that he could get away with it. There's not a bit of difference between him and Putin in this area. After all,he would have his Attorney General to direct his "J…
Same damned thing happened to me in 2007, but we managed to survive. Look, something (who knows what or when, but most likely within the next year or so) is going to take this market down bigtime. If you can survive on income other than market appre…
@Ted- Read the record, wise guy. He never claimed to have "invented" the internet. He did take credit, and justifiably so, for having promoted the technology through congressional funding.
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Don't Take Me Out To The Ball Game:
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@hank- Well, if you click on Ted's name, and then click on his "Comments", you'll see that today, for example, he has thirty posts, only three of which merited a comment, at ;east up to this time.
Then again, occasionally he posts a real gem, for i…
Yes, no extra payment, simply counting the SS contributions made while in the military. In the case of our generational cohort, those of us who served in the military, typically right out of high school, in fact had our SS cards and accounts establi…
@Simon- Sounds like a very decent fairly aggressive approach for someone your age. You have plenty of time to recover from the inevitable downturns which will occur before retirement. Using your own observation re the "future of the human race", my …
