4thebird

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4thebird posted to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 9:07 AM

rich do not feel rich

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-the-rich-don-t-feel-rich-1...

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4thebird replied to the My Dumbest Investment board. 7:29 PM

Re: Global Crossing

my sister bought that one and I could not talk her out of it either.

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4thebird replied to the Real Estate Inv. Trusts: REITs board. 5:38 PM

Re: Mom's being told to buy nontraded REIT

one of the calls I got from the broker when I took my 401K from him:

"but we were going to have so much fun together!" I always thought this was an advertising gimmick. So if and when she moves the account, don't be surprised, she [more]

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4thebird replied to the Gardening and Landscaping board. 9:53 AM

Re: Hemlock Stress

I would get the red spider mite predators. one of the problems they are running into is, the tree is so stressed from the woolly adelgid by the time they go dormant, other pests do it in. best time to see the adelgid is in january - february time [more]

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4thebird replied to the Gardening and Landscaping board. 1:09 AM

Re: Hemlock Stress

I accidentally fixed mine on this property. there are several key factors I did.
1) got woolley adelgida preditors from tree-savers.com
2) keep mulch around the trees to hold in mosture.
3) added [more]

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4thebird posted to the An Open Letter board. 11:07 PM

an open letter

To all the Emergency room folks, thank you for being there. We brought our friend in today. He broke his leg inside a stone wall. In several places no less! yikes! I know he kept saying he was ok, but we knew he was not, just because he dragged [more]

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4thebird replied to the Taking Care of Parents board. 9:24 AM

Re: primary progressive aphasia

don't know if this will do any good, but when I had trouble for a long time I took glantamind.

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4thebird replied to the Discount Brokers board. 5:39 PM

Re: ameritrade streemer

ah I have been using streamer a long time. in my shortcuts I added it to my list. it says quicklaunch streamer suit. I go to tools and set up symbol, bid, ask, last, net chg, high, low, volume, bxA'00s, prev close, trade time, news and %change. once [more]

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4thebird replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 7:39 AM

Re: Long distance phone company or tablet company?

Buy stock in companies making tablet computers? If that was the only criteria I'd guess yes.
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no I would buy stocks in the infrostrue of the internet. Market saturation of tablets, most people will not buy one every year. [more]

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4thebird replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 1:00 PM

Re: Another vote for Financial Repression

A good example is the food that costs $50 last year the same exact amount now costs $80. ouch.

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4thebird replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 12:49 PM

Re: A big problem that's under the radar

they have been injecting trees around the forests, both state & national with nicotine-derived pesticide to kill of invasive species of insects. eventually this stuff washes out and you got to do it again.

That is why when we bought an [more]

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4thebird replied to the Discount Brokers board. 11:10 AM

Re: PlaceTrade?

For my granny accounts I put them at USAA. their platform is not great for trading but for someone who has no access to computers they will take care of my relatives if something ever happens to me.

on line service and response is the best [more]

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4thebird replied to the Discount Brokers board. 11:04 AM

Re: ameritrade streemer

Personally I have no problem with TD Ameritrade. I think they have one of the best websites out there and have one of the most well-rounded set of offerings. But then I'm not a very active trader.

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4thebird replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 9:51 AM

Re: Simple Solution to 401K Expenses

my sister was in the government retirement thing and they tried every year to get her to take a pay out into a 401K. the new employees were not given a choice to getting it.

What I found out from my experience with company 401K plans, we [more]

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4thebird posted to the Discount Brokers board. 8:38 AM

ameritrade streemer

TD ameritrade is claiming they are now going to eliminate streamer platform. their first move is to no longer digital sign it.

my problem is that they are putting into place new stuff that not only is too busy, distracting and just flat [more]

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4thebird replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 8:10 PM

Re: Playing around with Closed-End-Funds

By the way, how much leverage (if any) do you find acceptable, and why? I'm always interested in finding folks who have deep experience in closed-end funds. Most investment advisers I know have limited knowledge of CEFs.

They almost [more]

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4thebird replied to the Taking Care of Parents board. 5:59 PM

Re: Banking: Trustee or Guardian?

when I took over for dad I just logged on and paid the bills. I did not even ask. guess I got lucky.

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4thebird replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 9:54 PM

Re: Playing around with Closed-End-Funds

did you check to see how leveraged they were?

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4thebird posted to the An Open Letter board. 10:41 PM

an open letter

To all the parents who give an ATV to your child and turn them loose on other peoples property. a curse on you. especally the tean ager who distroyed our vernal pool frogs and all.

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4thebird replied to the An Open Letter board. 8:49 AM

Re: An Open Letter

The good news for you is I am leaving. You might be able to get away with spinning to your boss that it was all my fault. It might even work for a month or so, but sooner or later, you will actually have to do something positive. May I suggest [more]