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I created this forum to discuss various EV models. Please keep the discussion to discussion of a particular EV model or EV news about new/changed models. There's another EV forum thread called "The Electric Vehicle Thread" if you want to discuss other EV related topics like the pros and cons...

I don't know if this topic has been discussed before but here goes... With many local, state and national government budgets being stretched and many of them struggling to balance their budgets, would you be in favor of publicly funded pensions (i.e. teachers, public sector employees...

About a week ago I went back to work after being retired for the previous 7 months (I've been semi-retired for the last 3-4 years, working on and off as the jobs appeared). I do computer programming as a contract worker and the company where I last worked at called me up and asked me to come...

I do computer contract work (programming) and am down to 25 days left on my current contract. When this contract is done, I plan to ER and perhaps eventually find some sort of part time job in a totally unrelated type of work. I am very burnt out on this type of work at this point and have...

Anybody out there been scammed on the internet? I tried to order a camera from 86th Street Video and Audio in NYC at the lowest price anywhere on the internet. They then sent me an email telling me to confirm my order by calling them and they then tried to sell me a bunch of overpriced...

Does anyone invest any of their money in CD's at KeyDirect (Welcome to KeyDirect - Always Great Rates). Right now they have 7 yr cd's at 5.5% and 10 yr at 5.7%. I have a couple of CD's there already and was thinking of buying another CD which would put me over the $100,000 FDIC limit. Is this...

Many of you have substantial portfolios...I'm just curious...How did you get to that point? By: 1) Being a Super Saver - able to save way more than the average person? 2) Being a Super Investor - able to create a much higher investment return than the average person? 3) Or both? I'm a great...

I'm 51 years old, seriously thinking of retiring within the next few months. I went out to the social security web site and estimated my social security benefits if I quit working today. They were about $1314/month (in today's dollars) at age 62. Then I estimated my benefits assuming I worked...

My question is: Do I have enough savings/investments to retire on? I know it's very specific to each individual, but I'd just like a few opinions on my situation. I'm single, 51 years old, have about 1.2M in savings/investments with about 2/3 of it invested in cash investments (yes, I know...

Hi...I'm new to this forum. I'm a single, 51 years old, experiencing major job burnout after 27 years in the same profession (computer programmer here). Anyway, I have enough savings and investments to retire on as well as having my house paid off and have no major debts. I'm just curious if...