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When I have to drive over taxpayer-supported highways that have been severely damaged by huge trucks I do doubt they are paying their fair share. Those trucks obviously overstress the infrastructure, but the corporations have bribed the legislatures…
From Catch 22's article:
"Wells Fargo & Co. fired the head of its consumer credit-card business and three other senior managers... who won promotions as the bank’s top brass focused on cross-selling". "The bank didn’t specify... what conduct p…
Probably one major reason that only us older folks still subscribe to print is because only those who are retired have the time to enjoy the luxury of reading the morning papers while having breakfast.
@davidrmoran- that's a really good idea- the next time that I have a problem I'll give it a try.
I did manage to read Krugman's blog, though, through a totally different entry point. Some weeks ago I allowed the NYT "Opinion Today" editor permissio…
"It's helpful to get a broad perspective." Yes, it is. And browsing through the reader commentary on various WSJ articles will certainly give you that! Outright scary.
Hi John- yes, they give us ten freebies per month, but it's odd- sometimes they seem to lose count. But as I mentioned, I can't get access at all to the "blogs"- that seems to be a different setup.
@Hank- might be my browser, but all I can get to is a NYT log-in/create account page, which is unresponsive.
Add- It's weird though- I can and do access many news articles and can get to the paper itself via news feeds, but not to "blogs" like Krug…
In all fairness, he's hardly the first president to try that old carny come-on. It's kind of expected as normal presidential behavior. Let's see now, there was trickle-down, chickens in every pot, the Great Society... might be interesting to go all …
I suppose that it's mathematically possible to make such a projection. However it's not possible to project whether or not that particular event sequence will occur. So where does that leave us?
@JohnChisum said:
" What I am talking about is our intelligence agencies found it prudent to leak info on what Trump / aides are doing."
When the vice-president first learns, from the public press, that he was directly lied to by a Trump aide rega…
@Hank- Subscribe to WSJ, SF Chronicle & The Economist, print & electronic editions. Follow electronic feeds from CSM (always thought this was a very good paper), WaPo, NYT, The Guardian, BBC & NPR.
Speaking of the Economist, I've been r…
@JohnChisum- no, I'm the other Old Joe. :)
@rforno: No, the Victory Gin is tasting more and more like kerosene I'm afraid.
Oh-oh... what's that pounding on the door...
Well, see, if you had been keeping your $100 in something other than shares, it wasn't working. Whereas that other guy with the $100 in shares, now his $100 was working. If he sold them to you, now your $100 was working, but his wasn't. Unless of co…
A perusal of the extensive comments to WSJ articles shows that there is a substantial segment of commentators who truly believe that anyone critical of Trump and his minions is "an enemy of the American people". Alternate facts for an alternate real…
re CULAX & PONDX, both available No Load/No Fee at Schwab.
CULAX: Net ER 0.77, YTD (from M*) = 0.23%
PONDX: Net ER 0.79, YTD (from M*) = 1.25%
Both w/ 90 day redemption fee.
It's the "Second Bank of the United States", not the "Second Bank of America": one of those is more than enough. Jackson may not have personally "dismantled" the Second Bank of the United States, but he certainly refused to "remantle" (sic) it, and …
"Your advice regarding keeping several years cash on hand is valid."
I've always done this, but have to concede in hindsight that, never having needed to draw against that reserve, perhaps better use could have been made of the resource. Another im…
Taking davfor's suggestion, a right-click to "view image" downloaded an Adobe pdf file. Worked fine, but I have to admit I've never seen this particular idiosyncrasy before. Sure didn't look like any link I've ever worked with.
