Recent content by hesperus

+1 there's much more to this than just purely economic forces

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They will have a hard time keeping Fangio

It's a testament to just how good the Bears D is that even with 3 picks by trubiskey, they could beat the best team in football. If trubiskey wasn't out for two weeks and coming back from injury, they could have blown them out. This win will grow them as a team, no doubt. As Nagy said after...

It's only a loss if you sell :) So good luck to you moving money in and out of markets

It happens. When I was speaking of value, I was speaking strictly of the informational value that artifacts can provide when found in situ. The Italians, like us, probably field dozens of these return requests every year. They also probably realize that once it's removed, it's almost worthless...

Speaking as a former cultural resource specialist, once you remove an artifact from it's source, it loses most if not all of it's provenance, and thus much of it's informational value to the larger historical context. I used to get a bunch of pottery sherds and other items returned every year...

How's that market timing thang going for y'all?

My perfect snow shovel is no longer a shovel:

+1

FOX 'news'

Nikon D850 & Sony A7R2, and an iphone

With a low eight figure portfolio (or high seven depending on the market), that's where we're at. But we don't pull 4% from the portfolio. More like 1%, at most. Yes, DW and I are living below our means. Most everything gets reinvested. It's all relative, but we do feel comfortable, not 'rich'.

Have been with DirecTV Now since it's inception. Got the free AppleTV box along with the lifetime discount, and for some reason we get free HBO too. At first, we were very close to dropping it, lots of snafus, ie: buffering, freezes. But we stuck with it and they seem to have found their groove...

Should ask this question to those who retired at the beginning of the great recession. How they entered into retirement at a time like that could either put you at ease, or make you rethink your plans. I retired at the tail end of it, so benefitted from a favorable sequence risk. My feeling is...