I've had to start buying VUSTX in my wife's 403(b) to keep the bond portion of our portfolio at the proper allocation, and so I've started tracking it. Today I see VUSTX is up roughly a percent, while TLT was down about the same. Does anyone know why this might be the case? Incidentally, I was plann...

I came here for financial advice, but I've ended up with a bunch of shave soaps and apparently am about to start eating sardines.

Not that I'm complaining, of course.

This thread made me aware of different shaving techniques for the first time. So I ended up with a new Edwin Jagger, a sampler pack of 22 types of blades, brush, mug, several soaps and creams, etc. I've tried it twice now and definitely need more practice. Maybe very long term I'll save money compar...

You're right, that's a super pain in the butt.  One way to address this is that if you have a strongly-encrypted password management tool (like Lastpass or something), take a few minutes to key in your card's contents as a secure note or in the site description.  That way you can spend a little les...

1) only the paper EE bonds double after 20 years, the electronic ones do not. Source . I believe the information on that page is incomplete with respect to the EE electronic bond's interest earnings after 20 years. See http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ebonds/res_e_bonds_eeratesa...