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I'm a retired local government employee receiving a pension. Because I was hired before 1986 there were never any contributions made to Social Security from my salary or by my employer. I do have 21 credits from other employment which makes me the rare person who will not be eligible to get...

Life Time Fitness (LTM) has agreed to be purchased by private equity firms TPG and Leonard Green & Partners L.P., in one of the largest U.S. leveraged buyouts so far this year. The agreed price is $72.10 in cash. This morning I checked the price and see that the share price is up 5% to 70.65...

I got an iPhone 6Plus last week and did a restore of everything from my old phone with the exception of the ER Forum app. Thought it was just a glitch in the restore, but the app is no longer in the App Store. Searching for it brings no finds at all, and clicking on the link provided here...

For the doctors and other medical field professionals here: Looking for career advice for DS #2 who wants to go to medical school. He has always wanted to be in health care, but stopped short of considering medical school. He's looked at everything from being a PA to Optometrist and spent...

Before today, my only experience with concierge medicine was watching a couple of episodes of Royal Pains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. My opinion was "doctors for rich people", and not for me. Recent events have me reconsidering my opinion. Our primary care physician has gone from a...

So late last year my physician, along with a number of other doctors, split away from the group he was practicing with and joined a new group in a different office building with different staff. The local newspaper hinted at some "financial impropriety" as the reason why the original practice...

Not that I was planning on buying any of these, but I'm trying to understand why the state with the highest per capita income is also the state with the highest net tax supported public debt. Connecticut Rating Cut by Fitch Ahead of Debt Sale (Update1) - BusinessWeek

Interesting story in NYT of J. Bruce Llewellyn, son of immigrants who succeeded in his quest for the American Dream. His final years turned into a battle between his wife, who said she was honoring his wishes, and his friends, who said they were honoring his wishes when they became his...

I thought we had a thread discussing this guy, but I can't find it. But now, it seems Paul got a job. Maybe things are starting to look better. Green shoots so to speak http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6974180.html

Just because we've gone more than a few days without decrying the situation on state & local government pensions. From the WSJ: States Skimp on Pension Payments - WSJ.com Nice graphic attached to the story. New Jersey - Ouch!

I looked at GRMN briefly about 7-8 years ago and quickly decided it was not for me. And my experiences while shopping for car GPS devices over the last several years have made me believe that the market is saturated and the darn things are just about a commodity. Smartphones with GPS apps...

Just like the old E.F. Hutton commercials, Bernie is the man when it comes time to discuss your portfolio and you want to impress your fellow cons with how great your adviser is. Don't you love it? Bernie Madoff passing out investment advice to his fellow cons. And millions to spare? Is he...

As part of a continuing public service to protect all of you [-]foreigners[/-] non-Texans, here is yet another reason to reconsider coming to Texas once you abandon Kal-ee-forn-ee-ah or wherever. I have it from reliable sources that he was waiting on a particularly fat and slow-moving banker to...

This is sort of a spin-off from Ziggy's thread on FOP phone solicitations. Most of you have probably noticed that you frequently get solicited to make a charitable contribution to some allegedly worthwhile cause when you're checking out at many retailers. For years it seemed to be limited to a...

Good article in the WSJ written by the father of a young woman who lived in NYC on less than $30,000 a year. I'm impressed. Her newest adventure is to see how well she can do without an income: Living Well in New York on Less Than $30,000 - WSJ.com

My dear father-in-law passed away this past October and as my in-laws go through probate the family bonds have been tested a little here and there. Nobody in the family has a financial clue except how to make money and then spend it before it gets stale. Add in an executrix (one of DW's older...

I've been a credit card "freeloader" for years now - paying off the total bill each month - and that's been working well. Several of the cards jacked up my interest rates during the Great Recession, but what did I care? Capital One miffed me a bit last year after I finally responded to their...

Interesting data here from the USDA: ERS/USDA Briefing Room - Food CPI and Expenditures: Table 7 So, if I'm reading this right, the cost of food has gone up in nominal dollars ever since the day they first started collecting data (1928). But as a percentage share of disposable income - it's...

I've watched Cramer's show on occasion. When he bashed the insiders and talked about the underhanded stunts they pull I found it educational in understanding the mindset of the type. His stock picks and advice are a totally different matter - his buy recommendations are more likely an...

Most of us probably saw this one coming given continued moaning about fuel taxes being inadequate: By-the-mile road tax could replace by-the-gallon federal fuel tax - Kansas City Star People with long commutes, no matter how fuel efficient the car, will pay more? Seems that this idea might...

No reserve, no minimum online auctions of condominiums. I'm not sure I'm in the market for a condo, but I am always interested in making a profit. It took me a few minutes to figure it out, but here's the gist of the deal. A developer or realtor puts a condo up for auction on iBidcondo and...

Youngest son is in the hospital recovering from an operation he had Thursday at a hospital in the Texas Medical Center Texas Medical Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The experience has been good, and we've moved through the system smoothly with almost no hiccups. However, there were...

One of my biggest frustrations when w*rking was trying to meet unrealistic demands made by politicians when I did not have the resources adequate to the demands. The one answer you could never give them was "I can't do that with my current personnel allocation". What they wanted to hear was "I...

Article in today's Washington Post claims that national health care reform is likely to mainly benefit the so-called Red States at the expense of taxpayers in the Blue States. According to the author, jobs and workers fled the states in the North and East for lower taxed states where the...

Obama and Brown chatted with the press today: My first reaction was to think "gee, where have I heard that before?" http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52240420090303