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"Wednesday’s moves had a different feel"
Tell me! :) :)
@Ted- thanks for the additional info. No more of the MJ, at least for now... back to stodgy American Funds.
@johnN: All that person need do is follow the rules, and I'll have no complaints at all. I've complimented Ted quite a few times as well as criticized, as evidenced by this post.
"What I could deal with and tolerate in my 20's would be a different situation today. "
@Catch22- Yes, exactly. One thing to learn and adapt to a foreign language when you're young, quite another pushing 80. Even though we have gone to Europe many …
@Kaspa- Portugal would be great if you speak some Portuguese. Unfortunately, unlike most of the rest of Central and Western Europe the average Portuguese citizen doesn't speak or understand much if any English. At least that's been our observation. …
Actually, we now have an oligarchy that was very clever in masking itself as populism. Being well and truly duped, the innocents thought that they were getting something better than either the Democratic or Republican goon squads.
"that read as though the numerical data is obtained and processed into what almost reads like a scripted format filled in with current data as needed."
Sounds a lot like Ted's link posts. Maybe Ted is AI too.
Well, judging by the above commentary, Monte Carlo would seem to fall somewhere between a Ouija board and a direct visit from the gods revealing the future. Can't hurt, and is useful as long as the limitations are understood. Not recommended for des…
It seems intuitive that for the relatively small "upper class" of wealthy taxpayers an IRA would be relatively unimportant as far as income potential, while those wage earners classified as "below the middle class" presumably need all of their incom…
General question: If my observation that "US consumers will be paying more, which is effectively the same thing as a decrease in their take-home pay" is correct, won't that eventually have the effect of reducing national consumption / purchasing / b…
"aren't the tariffs a form of a consumption based tax?"
@Old_Skeet- Sure reads that way to me. Which has had me wondering- what is the actual real intent of Trump's moves? Is he primarily trying to impose a new consumption tax on a long-term basis…
And a bit more from The Wall Street Journal, (subscription only):
"WASHINGTON—The Trump administration will impose tariffs on about $200 billion in Chinese goods as part of its campaign to pressure Beijing to change its commercial practices, it sai…
And here it is. Excerpts from coverage in The Washington Post:
"President Trump threw his biggest punch yet at China, imposing tariffs on an additional $200 billion worth of Chinese imports and gambling that American consumers are willing to pay mo…
Nobody is trying to "intimidate" you, @Ted. Just play by the rules that everyone else does and you can post whatever you want to.
By the way, if would you like me to post the PayPal receipts for my "deadbeat" donations this year, I'll be happy to. …
"If common sense could be purchased everyone would have it."
@VintageFreak- I'm not so sure on that. Seems to me some on a limited budget would opt for beer. :-P
@Old_Skeet- You are very welcome, sir, and I deeply appreciate the positive comments. Great that you got through this with minimum damage. Having spent some 25 years on the technical side of Public Safety I really appreciate seeing someone properly …
@Old_Skeet- OK, here we go. Things definitely looking a lot better.
This is update info [12:50 PDST 9/16/18] on the present status of Hurricane Florence.
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@Old_Skeet- Thanks much for the info. Super that your generator is back on line... sounds like you have the situation well under control. Will check out the weather graphics and update if there's a significant change.
Hang in there!
OJ
Candidly, the self-discipline with respect to link posting is actually quite good, except for the glaring exception of just ONE person. And that person has now taken to artificially and dishonestly "boosting" his links into the "Comments+" section, …
Also I'm really curious with respect to all of those "choice" properties that Manafort is supposed to be giving up. Does anyone really believe that he has a whole lot of personal equity in those places? More than likely they're all mortgaged to the …
Now, now. Wasn't the "Secret Service" (what exactly is so "secret" about it, anyway?) forced to rent an apartment at a usurious rate so as to maintain a presence when Trump visits home? Maybe they can use it and save a few taxpayer dollars.
@hank- Thanks much for your response. I was concerned that my storm data updates might have triggered your post, in addition to the dishonest tactics of @Ted.
The present MFO categorization scheme was engineered as a compromise after multiple cont…
@Old_Skeet- Thanks for the feedback, and I'm very glad that you're safe and snug. It's true that I'm not an electrician, but I do have many years as an electronics tech under my belt, including being responsible for emergency generator installations…
