Recent content by ktdtx

Many businesses have been shopping for the lowest credit card processing fees for a number of years. This can be an expense of thousands of dollars a month and the credit card processors didn't like being squeezed. So, they have been encouraging the businesses to implement the fee, passing it...

Thanks...knew it was something like that.

Sorry, off topic but what is "DW" <<<My DW is 70 years old>>>

100% equities BUT..I sold a business, owner finance for 15 years--we are halfway thru that payout. I call this a "bond equivalent" wrt predictable cash flow (I know the risks of owner finance). I also don't see the need for bonds when I can get equities, ETF's and Closed end funds that pay...

I have most of my assets in stocks. Made up of managed mutual funds, closed end mutual funds, ETF, individual stocks. I am a patient investor and tend to buy more than I sell. Dividends are reinvested. I think this gives me the most protection against inflation (with some risk of...

Thanks...Lot of detail. Over 75 Mean Income $43,538 and Mean Expenditures $45,820....Interesting

Retired...mostly..work 2 days a week. 2.99% mortgage...no plans to pay it off

This time counts in the preparation of a tax return. Saving donation forms, giving donations a value. Collecting W-2's, 1099's any investment forms, capital gains, home deductions and so forth. All the required record keeping thru the year should count as time required to prepare the return...

Maybe a mistake but I have repeatedly been offered the opportunity to learn the old sayings "pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered" and "no one ever went broke taking a profit." Previously I was a buy and never sell guy. I sold my COP at about 93--regretted it for a while until I realized I...

Haven't seen the Marfa Lights mentioned. Don't know what they are but I've seen them. https://visitmarfa.com/marfa-lights/ And, don't know if you can do anything other than drive by but I thought the giant tomato growing buildings north of Marfa to be interesting. No idea why they would...

I've had the Companion Pass for a number of years and believe it to be a good deal--if you go where AW Air goes.

<<<I comforted myself with the thought that the Russians presumably love their children as much as we do. They may be bad guys, but they are not irrational.>>> The problem is we are not dealing with the average Russian, we are dealing with their politicians who might be and probably are...

I don't have any real thoughts other than trying to understand some alternate investments that might offer some protection against the (IMO) looming inflation. Somehow I cam across this and wondered if anyone had experience with them. https://farmtogether.com/ Thanks for the links--I'll...

Don't care what decade it is--I'm just telling you "what is". This is not a disparaging comment on women. It is difficult enough to be a full time practicing veterinarian and it only gets more difficult when you have kids. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC340187/

Just read about this. Anyone ever invest or heard of Farm Together..a way to invest in farm land as an alternative asset...