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- Tell me if you think this is milking the Social Security System?
- Help -- I think SIL bought a Variable Annuity
- Views on long term investing
- Am I Clueless?
- Energy Index - opinions sought
- Small businesses or jobs that you can make your own hours at?
- Still can't spend even though FI
- Question on your estate planning approach
- Online savings rates drop....what to do?
- The Coming Tax Increases...
- Social Security strategy for married couples
- Looking for tax strategies against the RMD of IRAs
- Cash out Early
- Estate Planning for Everyman
- Why is Starbucks so popular?
- "Online Banking Guarantee"
- Medicare solvency and its impact on FIRE plans
- I'm confused about FICA and SS taxes on Commisions
- Funding private loans
- Discipline, Temptation, and Asset Allocation
- Vanguard's Jack Brennan in Saving Success
- Personal Finance Success--Psychology
- Cancer and ER
- Easy asset transfer from taxable to Roth?
- Tell me if this makes sense
- So you don't like annuities?
- 401k to 72T withdraw question
- Yes, we paid off our mortgage
- What percent buyout offer?
- I vs EE vs TIPS
- I must dress up at Halloween for work
- My replacement has been hired!!!
- Advice needed
- Enforcing a budget
- Can I contribute this much to my Roth ira and Roth 401k?
- Target Retirement Funds: Bond Funds vs Actual Bonds?
- Insurance deductibles
- Anyone close enough to one of these?
- Bank retirement funds
- Question on 'Four Pillars of Investing'
- Hang Seng
- Washington Post Article: "An Unsavory Slice of Subprime"
- ETF Investment Feedback --
- New Income/retiremnt funds by Fido and Vguard
- book recommendation for my mom
- Taxes in Canada vs US
- Great article on Quants (and their role in the subprime mess)
- Anyone use treasurydirect with paper bonds?
- selective cheapness
- Can you NOT take deductions on your tax return?
- New Hampshire for retirees? Bad idea
- Work Less Live More: Is his balanced portfolio still good?
- Is the CPI rigged?
- Joint CDs - Who pays tax on intrest?
- Fund Based on 4 Pillars?
- Curious pension mess
- Lottery tickets purchase=mental illness?
- Savings bonds -> 529
- Buying into partnership
- Hold or Sell Property?
- SS recipients get 2.3% raise...
- 401k or IRA
- torqued about 401K
- 6.11% apy 5 year CD but is it worth it?
- Super Saver? Super Investor? Or Both?
- Withdrawal from 401k at age 56
- Life is Harder
- Esoteric Roth IRA Question
- Meeting with a financial planner
- Secured credit cards?
- First Baby Boomer files for SS Benefits...
- Which MF companies post actual fees on statements?
- Nine Dumb Moves
- Retirement's racial divide: Blacks less prepared
- Money & Happiness
- Property Tax Rates: Different States, Different Strokes?
- Schwab Vs Fidelity
- Saving would be nice, but...
- October 1987 Crash: What would you do?
- Buy into pension, is this a good buy?
- Rate Chasers
- Any change in plans with current economy?
- Asset allocation suggestions for retirement accounts
- HSA Tax Concern
- Buying Viatical insurance policies, good or bad?
- Starting ESR in December !!!
- Vanguard Simple IRA: Cant seem to fund it?
- Negotiated dental rates without insurance
- Guidelines, Notes or factors to consider for ER
- HSA Questions
- Best cash rewards credit card for someone with no credit history?
- How much is average saving during retirement?
- Is this an effective trade off with insurance/annuities
- Calculate SWR if CPI is inaccurate?
- Hypothetical withdrawal rate scenario
- Scraping by on $150,000 a year
- Foreign currency deposit (CD)
- Paying taxes in two countries- Canada and US?
- Reason for Different Tax Rates
- Emigrant Direct cash back credit card
- Is this a stupid idea?
- Worst Housing Market in the Country
- Article: Worth $4 Million -- and Unable to Retire
- Question - IRS and Gains and basis
- Question about being POA for Parent and IRS
- suckage of Vanguard's web site?
- Simple IRA
- Who tracks the money?
- Today I paid off my house!
- Emergency funds
- Changes in FIRE
- How to invest 1.2 Million for ER?
- Inflation and retirement
- I Met a Funny Economist..........
- Shifting from W2 to 1099 consulting
- Social Security Hits 1st Wave of Boomers
- Can Vanguard update Emigrant Direct balances?
- Question About Penfed CD's
- A Financial Review this Morning (Completed)
- Housing market spot check
- U.S. housing bottom to be created by foreigners?
- A basic Social Security question regarding RE
- Int'l fund question
- SWR -I thought I had all my answers
- How to fund IRA after ET?
- Company Stock
- Looking for suggestions on cashing in EE bonds
- A canceled credit card can still receive charges and refunds
- Foreclosure readings
- hotel/motel investing?
- New milestone for us
- SWR - I've read many posts but still confused
- Roth time!
- Checklist for getting ready to ER
- The Next Bubble- Euro?
- I was mugged by Vanguard!
- Fee only financial planners
- Basic Social Security questions
- Funny! Efficient Market Theory, Craigslist style!
- Beginner saving/budgeting/retirement forums
- IRA Question
- Millineum Bank ???
- Let's rip on Suze!
- Lies, D@mned lies, Statististcs & the Government
- Returns outside of USA
- opinions on two bond funds
- Credit card limit
- What to do - stable retirement income
- Life Style and Status
- HelpWithMyBank.gov
- Interesting commercial real estate investing option...
- Question about credit scores
- Explanation of Mortgage Rate & Interest Rate
- Consolidate or not?
- That's it. Two more months!
- Applying for a Credit Card in ER
- My Version of Market Timing
- Currencies as International Hedge?
- Managing A Parents Financial Affairs
- Historical stock market data?
- Help for Momma!
- Best money advice you've ever received?
- Accounting Question, Please
- Ric Edelman's new book
- transfer taxable $$ without incurring taxes?
- Accountants/Mathematicians Interest Question
- Does anyone do any "automated trading"?
- Senior housing - anyone using it
- Personal Milestone !!
- Buckets/ Rebalancing
- Use of Retirement and Non-Retirement Accounts
- Pearls of Wisdom From Currency Analysts
- FDIC Specifics Question
- Historical P/E Rates and Equity Returns?
- Record Dow! Whee!
- 4% some years then 5%
- Where to park it?
- Multiple Retirement Account Strategies...
- Chicago Man Takes Exception To the Official Gvmt CPI
- fakechecks.org
- Keeping TIPS in my 401k?
- Lbym
- An Amusing Video for LBYMers: The Other Side
- mutual fund distributions
- 19 months later - update
- FDIC closes Net Bank
- IRA 72t withdrawal?
- aa plan - please let me know your thoughts
- John Bogle to be interviewed by Bill Moyers
- Vanguard Retirement Payout Funds
- Early Retirment: Your idea or the Company's
- Life settlement
- A quandary
- Confused on tax burdens on 4% withdrawals
- American Assn of Individual Investors?
- PENFED Rates Change 6%
- Feds/vets: Have you maxed your TSP contribution yet?
- ER stereotypes!
- Asset Protection - Possible?
- Roth 403(b), Roth IRA and 'earned income'
- Success Magazine's 5-Step Online Investing Method
- The World is Flattening: CNN article regarding flat taxes
- Rookie Social Security question
- Do you guys use Closed End Funds?
- Mutual fund fees.....how often taken out??
- You be the Financial Advisor
- LivingStandard increase=COLA and 2%
- Help for my parents
- SEPPs - Want To Move Them/Broker Choice - Advice Needed
- What exactly are "emerging markets"?
- Fund ideas for rational investing portfolio
- FIRE Plans - Confident Or Second thoughts given US Economics
- American Funds - Share class R5
- Unusual COLA situation
- Earn Out Agreement
- Greenspan/Bernanke tag team imperil ER...
- HELP- Financially incompetent 50 year old relative in massive IRS trouble
- Long term bonds or Preferreds???
- IRA rollover - am I losing by rolling now?
- Insurance Premiums and Taxes
- Boomers preventing their own retirement?
- House prices to drop much lower: Greenspan
- multiple asset allocations
- Vanguard Money Mkt Acts
- The US and Canadian dollars are at par
- Charts and Graphs that make you go "Hmmm"
- Problems in Big China
- Financial Services and Product Innovation
- Uninsured and undersured automobile coverage
- question - yahoo/finance MF performance percent vs costs
- How many kinds of taxes are owed when someone dies?
- Advice
- Lease Purchase
- 401k mix
- Rebalancing the Portofolio - What is the Best Time
- Rebalancing a taxable account using new inflows...
- Can I max out my Roth IRA, Trad. IRA, and SIMPLE IRA?
- Get Rich Fast (you chump)
- mint.com: new online personal finance site
- 457b contributions
- Early retirement discussion on Newseek.com
- My salute to Big Ben
- pay tax now vs later, in taxable account
- Why does this name sound familiar? Rob B.?
- Where to put the Cash?
- On $20,000 Salary Parking Lot Attendant Saves and Invests Has $500,000 Portfolio
- Impossible to Concentrate
- What is the D in DH and DW?
- National Housing Market Update
- Vanguard Has Largest Inflows.........