Let no Iranian missile get near Vinny’s urethra.
Safe passage!

I get all my info from this guy

Speaking for myself, frugal, my pp is not my total. I never could hold that much gold or cash. If I had no Vp, I probably could live off the cash portion.

For me, it’s not just a theory. I literally* did this from 2004 until about 2015, and then I started moving away from it. Would I have been better off just buying total stock market, domestic? Oh yes. But I am fine with the results. I didn’t necessarily stick to Dividend Aristocrats, and I did have ...

it’s pretty irrelevant if dividends increase or not . I’m more focused on total return than dividends, but in the context of a dividend strategy, I think increases are pretty relevant. It’s a wiser strategy than chasing REITs with 11% payouts that end up falling 50% and cutting that dividend. Choos...

Which bonds you mean? Well, of course the pp has long-term U.S. treasuries. Outside of treasuries, I feel like it’s hard to select bonds. In fact, it’s beyond my ken. Those who want something tax-friendly may buy municipals. I used to own pure corporate bond funds but got rid of them. Now, I own a ...

I would do it only if you're fairly young, and have time to watch the dividends increase along with expenses (inflation).
If you're older, just get your income from bonds.

There are a few NYC residents whom I wish still hung out at this forum, so we could complain about Mamdani. Sheigetz(sp?), Don (I’m afraid he may have passed). Of course Sophie, although her take would be more nuanced and she might make me realize I’m totally wrong on this. O0 Wrong on what? Well, t...

cj’s post in the bomb Iran thread has me wondering when Trump and Putin last met. Mid-August of last year? That’s more recent than I thought. I guess the bromance isn’t going to solve anything this year, though.

2022, yep.
2026: China has offered Iran some good rhetoric, but not much in the way of action (which is understandable).
I wonder where China is going to get its oil from now.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I fear one of the few viable options US & Israel do have is to completely obliterate Iran's infrastructure... I hope not, Vil. Haven’t heard anything about that. I heard a couple worrying things, both in the ‘Call Me Back’ podcast. (1) The fear that Iran will still...

I should add- while Yom Kippur is a day (yom=day), Ramadan is a looongg holiday. I know this well because one of my buddies can’t show up for dinner until it’s over. It’s too long a holiday to expect not to be attacked, especially when, you know, the country in question has proxies that have terrori...

Kill a religious leader during Ramadan and watch the extremist ranks swell to new all time highs, … Trumps spontaneity/irrationality is very dangerous, he's clicking on the doomsday clock to seconds before midnight. Striking during a holiday is really from the Muslim playbook. They’ve been doing it...

per ounce

She has a point:


@AlixG_2

Let me get this straight. There are people, right now, in America, protesting the death of a man who killed protestors for protesting.

I find it sickly, ironically humorous that the Iranian traffic/spy camera network was hijacked by the Israelis, and they used it to find and kill the Ayatollah. I had read that they turned the authoritarian regime against itself, but I didn’t know about this. that’s a good example. For me, the grea...

Thanks, yeah, I had seen similar things from private attorney sites when I googled.
Aren’t all our social security numbers on the dark web by now, for the low, low price of $20?

Did anyone else get paper mail notifying you that your personal info was leaked in a security breach?
From the John Buck Company.
I believe it’s legit.

Is it too soon to break out The Simpsons Ayatollah t-shirt clip?

I don't have any comments here at this time. Just wanted to create a place for those who want to comment, so that it doesn't keep spilling into the Ukraine-Russia thread (including my own stray comments, too). From that thread: Yes he does indeed O0 At least he hasn’t started any new forever wars. L...

I should have used a comma Reconversion of bitcoin back to regular fiat currency is and will become increasingly difficult , w allets even with a small amount of tainted bitcoin may be locked. I don’t know if it’s an edit, but your original post with a period (full stop) and then a new sentence is ...

Hence Rosie the Riveter in the U.S. in WWII

Reconverion of bitcoin back to regular fiat currency is and will become increasingly difficult. Here’s a post from a few months ago: We keep saying "Bitcoin fixes this" but the fiat off-ramp is still broken - are we just early or is this a fundamental problem? https://www.reddit.com/r/Bit...

Wow, I don’t remember that.
It must be like all women in the big cities now.