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The biggest advantage of having Plan G over Plan N is the doctor knows they can bill more and be paid and I have found that when you need top care it is easier to get with plan G. My Father in Law had heart surgery at age 91 and he got top care from Mayo doctors in Scotsdale.

City officials are exempted and rich people are unaffected by a $15 fee, it is to free up the streets for the connected.

They borrow against stock and can go a lifetime without paying any taxes. Secondarily they put a $5,000 ownership contribution in a new company in a Roth, then when they announce they will run the company for free the stock soars and they get millions tax free in a ROTH. See Peter Thiel who...

For a married couple dividends are not taxable at all until taxable income exceeds $89,250. And dividends are taxable at the LT Capital gains rate of 15% until income exceeds $500,000. With the standard deduction of $29,000, an income combining dividends and social security to get $88,000 of...

For 100 years from 1820 to 1920 inflation was exactly equal to zero. There were periods of inflation and periods of deflation but the economy even though it struggled at times always recovered. These cycles tended to punish speculators Once the Federal Reserve got all their powers and removed...

The median salary in Ghana is $359 per month. GDP of the country is 63 billion about equal to about one month of Amazon's revenue, 1/3 of Jeff Bezo's net worth - 33 million people total have a country of 1/3 of what Jeff Bezo's owns. There are 33 KFC stores in Ghana In 2000 the USA...

If there is any company stock in a 401K there are very large tax reasons to keep the 401K - you can transfer the stock to a brokerage account and tax owed is only on the original price paid for the stock at that time, then when you sell the stock your tax is a capital gain and not ordinary...

https://static.fmgsuite.com/media/documents/bc618705-6161-4c00-be7f-c667c90c61b5.pdf In January 2000 the Cape 10 was at 42. It had risen in a steady uptrend for over 18 years from a level of 6.62 in 1982. In 2000 no-one was worried about the CAPE 10 index, only in 2009 after the CAPE 10 fell...

cocoa Unprecedented 70 year rally

I just entered your data into Fidelity Annuity Estimator based on you being 45 and your wife 12 years older and you can get a lifetime annuity with a 5.4% payout for life and 20 years certain. The advantage of annuities is you lock in the interest rate for life. If one believes interest rates...

There is no minimum size Warren Buffet owns stocks that represent less than 1 1/100th of a percent of the total holdings of Berkshire Hathaway.

https://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f44/microsofts-lost-decade-62113-3.html And you can see here on this thread that very few people had any idea of the value of the company despite being a great company and growing over decades. As I pointed out then, Microsoft was a growth company...

Those are nice. protect the coin and make for a lovely display. A sealed tube is worth nothing more other than the value of the tube.

So the price of food and energy are not relevant for purposes of inflation? CPI-U is up 3.1% and 0.5% in the last month before seasonal adjustments - that is a 6 per cent annual rate in the last month which was unexpectedly higher.

This year's 3.4% is higher than all but one year prior to the 2020 Covid induced inflation over the last 30 years. 40 of the last 110 years have been under 2% inflation. 22 of the 110 were over 5%, so that 20% of the time the inflation rate is more than twice the target of the Federal Reserve...

In 1973 Gold was $44 using $50 for gold you have $2100 today for 7.47% in price In 1973 Silver was $2.55 $25.00 today for 5.4% annual inflation in price So pure money would state inflation was between 5.4% and 7.47% over last 50 years. Minimum wage in 1973 was $1.60 using average $15.00 today...

RIP Charlie Munger https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/28/charlie-munger-investing-sage-and-warren-buffetts-confidant-dies.html He made a lot of money for a lot of people and had a great attitude on life.

Silver could have major move up As far as charts go this is a good one for relative valuation, which is comparing present price to the 36 month moving average. 2009 went from 9-42 and in 2020 went from 11 to 27. This chart is similar to the CRB index when the CRB broke it's 12 year downtrend...

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The only way to know exactly what your cash flow from your bond investments will be is to control that through individual bond purchases. Buying into a total bond fund means you own more bonds of companies that overextend themselves by issuing large amounts of bonds. Right now for the first...

Average apartment is up around $250 from $1100 in two years year. That is 22% CPI has it at 11% over the last 2 years since they determine it by asking Aunt Louise how much she thinks her house would rent for, not actual rents. Rents in my town have gone from $950 for a two bedroom in 2021 to...

Well they are printing it previously they were reducing the interest expense of US by returning the money the government was paying itself. Now they are paying banks more than the interest earned from the treasury notes they hold

https://www.dechert.com/knowledge/onpoint/2019/6/sec-provides-no-action-relief-for-index-based-funds-to-exceed-di.html Allows in the case of a funds that has a requirement to hold no more than 5% of a security that SEC will take no action so long as they own index funds.

Concentration continues. 57% of the Nasdaq 100 is just 7 stocks, while the S&P500 is as below..