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From a Washington Post article this on Oct. 11, 2008 Last month's bankruptcy by Lehman, which had been the nation's fourth-largest securities firm, has raised concern that firms might not be able to cover credit-default swaps written on about $400 billion of Lehman bonds. But firms with...

I own BND and it has been trading at a 5% discount NAV. The corresponding fund is only down about .4% on the same day. I know that the ETF trades like a stock but I never expected it to have such a persistent discount NAV. There are lots of bond ETFs that seem to be experiencing the same...

All 50 US States are in the top 75 if you compared them to the world's countries. I just had to look it up recently.

There shouldn't be a master key for a safe deposit box. All of them at banks are supposed to have 2 keys. You keep one and they use their 'master'. If you lose your key they have to dril the box to get it opened.

....and it just keeps going down. Triple digit losses on every continent except antartica and that's undergoing its own meltdown. Looks like the oil and middle east situation is just going to keep getting worse until it gets better.

...another dive in the markets. I'm going to stick to my SWR plan but it is really interesting to me that my risk tolerance is much lower in ER as opposed to all those years prior when I thought I was learning how much pain I can take. I am just going to close my eyes and come back in the Fall...

Just thought I would check in after leaving 3 months ago and tell you that I have ERed. It is much more an emotional issue for me than I imagined. I'm looking forward to reading Bob C's book because i definitely still want to work -- but live more. I was always able to deal with the...