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$10 rabbit ears antenna (one time cost). Commercials, yes, but we all grew up with that! Mute the commercials. There are some great free broadcast channels, including MoviesTV network: https://moviestvnetwork.com/schedule/

“Repulsion”, by Roman Polanski, “The Wicker Man” original, 60s version “The Curse of the Beast” (1959?) terrifying!

It's maybe a psychological crutch for those invested in bond funds vs individual bonds.

Hello Freedom56, I am not expecting the fund to do this exchange, just thinking if one was really concerned about loss of principal, due to NAV decline, one could manually sell the fund (at the loss), then re-invest in a zero-coupon bond that matures at the original NAV price paid for the fund...

My question probably belongs more in the now closed "bonds vs bond funds" thread. I have read through all of the posts there, and some here, but in comparing bonds to bond funds I have not seen any discussion of interest-on-interest with respect to total return of a bond vs bond fund. Also, it...

Yes, Amor Towles’ first book is great!

Yes, his first book is great!

Back up As someone else stated, backup and do personality/affinity/ability test before spending a lot of money to be miserable. Your son sounds like engineering personality (Myers-Briggs ISTX type), but maybe he doesn’t find it interesting. Sometimes a great professor can make s difference—I...

Leave everything the way it is. The EJ guy has you in a pretty good selection. If you really must have just one fund: FFNOX. Fidelity 4-in-1 index fund: FXAIX, extended market, intl market, and US Bond index.

This is a good point. I have generally stuck with index funds, because I pretty much make a single purchase transaction then hold. Also, I have read the bid-ask spread can be higher with ETFs than funds, but probably not so much with large, widely-held-and-traded ETFs, such as those tracking...

Thank-you

My motivation is receiving the lump sum in my taxable account and trying to make a better decision about investing in that account than the one I made when I first purchased FFNOX. I really haven’t added to my taxable account the past few years, so just lived with the fact that I have a...

Thanks. Yes, I am leaning toward my Q2 solution. I should note that FFNOX, with such a low bond allocation (15%), has tended to act more like an equity index. Also, I have used the income in my taxable account (I directed dividends to be deposited into my cash account, rather than...

I should note I am single and combined annual income (dividends, interest, cap gains from passive changes in indices) from my portfolio, both retirement and taxable accounts, is still under $40,000, so I don’t as of yet have a tax problem with the taxable account income. I DO live in Minnesota...

Hello, Searching the forum not able to find a good discussion of my question, so here goes: I have a recent lump sum in my taxable brokerage account I wish to invest. I am semi-retired with some income as well as cash to fund 2 years of expenses. I also have a couple years expenses in an...