Personal Consumer Issues • What Movie Have You Recently Watched?
"Sunset Boulevard" (1950) A washed up film star (Gloria Swanson) lives in a delusional world of fantasy. A down-in-his luck screenwriter (William Holden) has an "arrangement" with her. A well-done...
View ArticleInvesting - Theory, News & General • When do alternatives make sense?
Alternatives can be helpful, especially as noted earlier, with the introduction of lower cost ETFs and mutual funds. Strategies, as mentioned above, managed futures, equity market neutral, etc., can...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Cities with Extensive Bike Lanes and/or Public...
His top ten (actually eleven) are:11 Temple (Philly)10 Minnesota9 Toronto Metropolitan (Ryerson)8 Arizona State (Tempe)7 Northeastern (Boston)6 Washington (Seattle)5 California (Berkeley)4 Quebec...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Reliable family vehicle
Similar sized family. We have a Honda Pilot and it is works quite well for our needs.Statistics: Posted by Old Goat — Fri Nov 01, 2024 3:06 am — Replies 1 — Views 80
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Lenovo Thinkpad - Snap Dragon or Intel
Thinkpads are available with an AMD processor. For a given performance the battery usually lasts longer vs Intel at the moment. Snapdragon's may in time be just fine. Even better for the battery time....
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Fidelity as a one stop shop
I think Vanguard customers appreciate not having to play these games to get an even better yield.If only Vanguard allowed for auto liquidation of their money market funds.I think they do with respect...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Ultra widescreen monitor for office use? (49"+)
At office I use a 49" curved ultrawide. Forgot the native resolution, probably 5120x2880, but at native resolution w/o scaling things are just a tad too small for me.The 32:9 ratio is weird for a few...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Overwhelming choices for glucose monitor gizmos....
OMG, this just so clearly skirts around medical advice and seems to be non actionable for a non diabetic.For diabetics, CGMs are state of the art therapy and have been for many years. If working with...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part VI
"The Silk Roads: A New History of the World" by Peter FrankopanFocuses on the major role the Silk Road (which extended from east Asia into east Europe, going back to the time when Western Europe was a...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • What do you buy in Asian food stores?
Victoria,Does it really matter on what and how you prepare the food. It is food. and If you dont like the preparation, prep another way the next time. This is true, itstoomuch.The reason for my...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Who's up for pickleball? Zero-zero-two. Game On!
gips, give it more time. I started about 2-3 months ago (still play old man hockey, former tennis and r-ball player decades ago). It is still taking my body time to adjust to the new stresses, I'm 62...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Which assets should I hold in my HSA (California).
It depends on where you would instead hold stock instead of bonds if you replaced stock with bonds in the HSA. It also depends on how many years of contributions will be made in relation to how large...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • 5 Day Trip To London
If you want to do Stonehenge, do it right by getting up close and personal with the stones:https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/vis ... ss-visits/Fantastic experience!If you have an interest in the...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Individual or Joint Vanguard Account
I have an individual account at Vanguard with my wife as a beneficiary. I intend to open another brokerage account (to keep the monies separate because of different investing objectives and timelines)...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Should I pay-off my mortgage when mortgage...
If you have an emergency fund, no other debts, if you're at a high savings rate elsewise (15%-maxed out on tax advantaged, whichever is higher), you have a decision to make. If you want the math...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Visiting San Francisco / Fisherman’s Wharf — Input?
https://sfcityguides.org/find-your-tour/Try one of these 80 free walking tours, run by the SF library and usually staffed by retired history teachers and architects as volunteersSFJAZZ concerts if you...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Portfolio for near retirement
Need some help on figuring out how to allocate a porfolio for a 60 year who is nearing retirement and has been holding $600,000 in 95% BND, 5% VXUS. What is the best way to reshuffle the portfolio?...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Chase Bank Hold Time on big Checks - up to...
Found it: https://www.chase.com/content/dam/chase ... eement.pdfSee Fund Availability Policy p17, which says they will hold funds for up to 7 business days for large check deposits.Thanks A friend on...
View ArticleNon-US Investing • US Nonresident Aliens - Vanguard freezing legacy accounts
Thank you for the hard work with Vanguard, bluejeansman. Two follow-ups: were you able to get any information about W8-BEN and withholding tax practices post-2025? has anyone heard whether the...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Overwhelmed trying to figure out bonds
Also acknowledge that rungs in a bond ladder also lose value per the duration. They lose value when rates rise, just like bonds funds do. The recovery toward maturity is indeed a different trajectory,...
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