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3% Plus for LT CD's went up this morning (1/20/2014). Navy FCU follows the lead of Pentagon FCU.

Just wanted to say Good bye and say I enjoyed this forum for a couple of years. Thanks to all that have helped during the time I have been a member here. OAG

#21 in the 2009 series of Banks to go under. This one is a good amount of $. 21st bank failure this year - Mar. 27, 2009

Not that this is not a regular occurrence but this time it is 3 banks and there were no buyers so FDIC (and the Taxpayers) own these things. 20, so far in 2009: Regulators close 3 banks, bringing the total to 20 this year - Mar. 20, 2009 Oh, on further surfing, here are 2 Credit Unions going...

Microsoft IE 8.0 is available from Noon (EST) today from MS: Microsoft Unveils Internet Explorer 8

The World's Billionaires - Forbes.com

Our favorite Doom has another prediction - recession goes into 2010 (36 months assuming a late 2007 start) - complete with videos: Dr. Doom: Recession Will Probably Last 36 Months - Economy * US * News * Story - CNBC.com

If M2M is done away with: UPDATE: Stocks Could Skyrocket After March 12th - Tomorrows Playbook - CNBC.com Anyone care to "guess" this one?

Here is how the TFL recipient are going to "help the economy" beginning in 2011. This is contained in the CBO Study of 2008: http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf The cost share of the program would increase to about $3K (indexed for inflation) annually, plus Medicare...

Health Care Costs per individual in the US (Man, Woman, and Child). Looks like the estimates of cost are going to [-]skyrocket[/-] increase: Health care costs to top 8000 per person - Road Runner

This is pretty neat. It starts at 1900 (just because that is the year I selected) and you can go to any year you want from there. You can also "drill down" to see headlines on a variety of subjects for the year selected. Information Please: 1900

Maybe someone can explain if depositors here should be concerned based on this article regarding HSBC: HSBC considers $20bn cash call from investors - Business News, Business - The Independent

Here is George Soros and Company - Officially our Economic Planners - is there any wonder that the USA is "in the tank" with this sort of "official" pronouncements? "We witnessed the collapse of the financial system," Soros said at a Columbia University dinner. "It was placed on life support...

SSA Site has information on the stimulus payments for SS recipients posted. Seems the rapid need to get this money out in the economy is going to take until the end of May or the first part of June to get to the folks that are supposed to spend it. Here is the Link: Social Security Online -...

The story is about the crash of two nuke submarines: British and French nuclear submarines crash | The Sun |News

Anyone heard of or use these things? Seems "to good to be true", while I do not really, but they seem to protect the principal: Absolute return notes: Investing with a no-loss guarantee - Feb. 12, 2009

The new Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PENFED/PFCU) Site for members is up and running this morning. Looks different and seems to be better.

We discuss averages and what certain ages of people have or need to live on this forum a lot. This data seems to be very informative in the aggrate but, of course, it depends on the individual does. Consumer Expenditure Survey

This report from CBO was not scheduled, is authored mostly by the next OMB director (incoming). Retired Military will be most interested in chapter 4, but it has implications for everyone as it may impact MEDICARE. Long but interesting (it is pdf, so it can be downloaded to your computer and...

Planning a Grand Canyon Trip in 2009. Longest trip we have undertaken since the drive from Indiana to Anchorage Alaska with 3 kids 34 years ago. This time it will be DW and myself driving in a SUV from Central Ohio to Grand Canyon for a weeks stay there (hopefully finding a Armed Forces...

Anyone downloaded and installed Vista SP2 (Beta)? The actual SP2 is due on or about Apr 09 but the Beta seems to perform quite well. The download was about 350MB and the install went fine. You can uninstall it if you want to but I have found no need to. Major improvement IMO is wifi capability...

For those Military retired folks (Serviced by DFAS) the new Retiree Account Statements effective for January 2009 are available to download or save as a PDF file at the DFAS Mypay Site: https://mypay.dfas.mil/mypay.aspx

Wow, 50% of GDP for last year spent thus far in the "Bail-outs" of 2008. I doubt it is over yet. The speech today is rumored to have a price tag of $1 trillion to add to that so by night fall today we will either have spent or earmarked to spend $8.4 Trillion - So I guess the National Debt will...

I am not sure what will happen with the Income Tax system in the USA but I have heard that the plan may entail letting the "Bush Tax Cuts" expire in 2010, i.e., do nothing with the tax system between now and then. If that is what happens I became curious what that would mean to me. So I took a...

Three more Financial Institutions (Banks) gone. Wonder what will be announced this weekend or on Monday relative to C (Citi)? Second Link is some CITI information (again that phrase "Too Big to Fail". Regulators close down 3 more banks, bringing total to 22 - Nov. 21, 2008...