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Is there a country nowadays where these people are not a problem ? Why do people emigrate to countries where they cannot assimilate ?

Capital gains are tax free but dividends and interest are subject to a 30% withholding (depend on the tax treaty between US-Canada) You are one lucky guy! I also came to work in the US from Canada but i took US citizenship for personal reasons at the time. Now i plan to retire in SE Asia soon...

It is amazing that Fidelity still only requires the minimum for signing on : userid and password. When are they going to start catching up with better security ?

My parents raised 10 kids, working over 6 days a week, no vacation until they retire at 60+ and then my father was too frail to enjoy anything but watching TV. Lesson learned for me, ER before i turned 47 and no kids please.

Does this mean Blackstone is to invest the money in the US stock market ? If there is a US market bubble, this time we will blame the hedge funds, private equity, China, Icahn, Buffet and others value investors like him such as Eddie Lampert. I do not hear the co-workers and friends talking...

Has NEVER own a cell phone, Has NEVER susbscribed to cable TV but will find it very frustrating to go back to dial-up.

They should also outperform in a flat market or if it is in a tight trading range. I like to write covered calls and naked puts when the premium is interesting although i would consider it more in between investing and gambling

Lots of liquidity in the markets, companies buying back lots of shares, interest rate still pretty low, private equity very active, many individual investors still in cash, average P/E, what bubble ?

I read somewhere that the US market and others have held up partly due to the billions of petrodollars from the middle east and Russia who are being invested in hedge funds and real estate, etc..Now with China coming to buy US assets, soon middle class americans will be left with their...

I was born and grew up in Mauritius, which is an island not far from the Seychelles and the Maldives. I have worked in Canada and am currently in the US. I find that many Europeans know about the Seychelles and Mauritius because they are well travelled, get generous vacation time and are more...

To get around MITM attacks, many financial websites now present a picture that tells the client that this is not a fake website. The picture is assigned to the client when he register. I think this is a clever and cheap way to get around the MITM.