Recent content by Release The Hounds

I feel like Charlie Brown on Halloween.

Data point: I called today and asked about the free TT. I have well over a million in assets with them, but the answer came back after some research is that the free TT is only offered to Fidelity customers who use Fidelity as a paid advisor. Otherwise, you just get the 20% discount. Bummer.

My Fidelity due date for my consolidated 1099 recently slipped from 2/11 to 2/25, so you might be in the same boat.

I think "normal" travel will not resume until 2021, once a vaccine is rolled out.

Are you in Chapel Hill? I'm in Durham and I will continue to support Costco, Aldi, Harris Teeter and a few local restaurants who I've ordered delivery through Uber Eats, etc.

But don't we risk more than 250,000 deaths if we open up the country (to whatever extent) too early? I thought the 100K to 250K estimates of fatalities was based on most/all of the country practicing stay at home/social distancing. That number has now been lowered, but I worry that it's going...

I have a coworker in London with both of her parents infected and her mother in the ICU. They're probably in their early/mid 70s.

This is ridiculous. Reminds me of the '90s when many programs were DOS-only, no Mac equivalent.

Finished my taxes for a (for me) very complex 2019 -- switched jobs (resulting in an additional 2 W-2s since I was hired under one company's tax ID and then transferred to a new entity with a different tax ID, so 3 W-2s in total), moved states, more than doubled my salary (if you include signing...

He had a small savings account and he named her as sole beneficiary in his will.

Thanks, but I was under the impression that no one at Social Security would be able to discuss his case until her court appointment is approved?

My girlfriend was aiding a man in his 70s for several years, helping him with chores as well as keeping him company in the nursing home he was in. He passed away last year, but had appointed my gf as his executor with Power of Attorney and Power of Medical; he had 2 daughters who lived locally...

I'm 53 and I fully expect the FRA age to be raised to 69 or 70 for my age cohort, with earliest age to take SS to go up to 64.

-0.1% on the year, thanks to the last trading day of the month no doubt.

June trip to Madrid, Lisbon and Porto, first time I've been to either country.