Ah..........the good old days. ibonds $30K per year and tons of frequent flyer miles on the credit card. At times the fixed portion was over 2.5%. Maybe 3%. At my advanced age I'm facing some issues with my remaining Ibonds. At death they do not reset the cost basis to the heirs like equities. The h...

GWB refusing to renew the clinton assault weapon ban has changed my life for the better. Standard capacity gun magazines that retail priced for $20 used to sell for $80 to $100 because they had to be made pre-1994 and grandfathered in. Today they’d probably cost $300 a pop if the AWB renewed. Now t...

[ Why on earth would you issue Police sidearms that cannot instantly stop dangerous offenders?? I assume over in the US you can only shoot someone if there is an imminent threat to the officer or the public.... https://www.americanheritage.com/gun-army-cant-kill It's deeper than that. As seen by re...

But If there were no alcohol they'd not be able to make those poor decision. Vinny I applaud your decision to do what's best for you. However, preventing responsible consumption of alcohol sounds so much like the perpetual argument for firearm ownership, i.e. restricting responsible gun ownership b...

Tom, I would argue that a gun is the quickest and easiest force multiplier that exists. No other weapon compares to the amount of damage a fully automatic gun can inflict in a crowded setting. I am not aware of any mass shootings in this country recently that involved a fully automatic gun. As ment...

[/quote] That's why I bought a shotgun instead of a handgun. Harder to miss, and often just the sound of the pump action will deter any intruders/attackers. [/quote] In an emergency situation, racking a shotgun means you are ejecting and wasting the round in the chamber (lowering your capacity), or ...

Everyday there is a new Trump allegation. A new and different one each day. I'm not inferring they are true or false, but people are looking for anything to possibly discredit the president. Yesterday it was Trump's disrespect for fallen soldiers. Today's Drudge Report has this content in an articl...

Everyday there is a new Trump allegation. A new and different one each day. I'm not inferring they are true or false, but people are looking for anything to possibly discredit the president. Yesterday it was Trump's disrespect for fallen soldiers. Today's Drudge Report has this content in an article...

“Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty". The democratic nominee for president and the liberal press have apparently never discovered this tenet. They have a new standard: Anyone who supports Trump should be presumed guilty until proven ...

Fox News just showed several clips of the disingenuous Coumo, earlier this year, praising Trump for his help in fighting Covid in N.Y. Coumo's vile and disrespectful comments must be a good indicator it's getting closer to the election. I seriously doubt Trump or anyone else is looking forward to vi...

“Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty". The democratic nominee for president and the liberal press have apparently never discovered this tenet.

Pardon me for kinda jumping off subject here, but what are some of the possible reasons that could cause short to intermediate term treasury rates to increase in the near term? With the additional debt the government has amassed during the Covid pandemic, added to the already staggering national deb...

By the way, someone I know who is highly knowledgeable about guns told me that Glocks are illegal to own in Massachusetts. I forgot what is the reason. The bureaucrats in Massachusetts have probably forgotten the reason, too. ::) I found this: Attorney General Maura Healey's investigation into Gloc...

If I were a young dermatologist I would look in that direction. I don't see how reversal could be done on the people that have extensive artwork on their body, and I bet it will be costly and painful.

However, I believe it is a sign of cultural decay that will eventually reverse when we go back to a more conservative culture . Hahahaha, you can't be serious (although I wish you were). The US, Canada and Europe are moving further to the left with each passing year. What on earth would make you th...

Tattoos seemed to start becoming more popular in the late '90s and have continued to gain in popularity up to the present day. That's more than 20 years. So I would call it a long-term cultural shift, not just a fad. That's about the time I started to notice as well. It started with single tattoos ...

Under the category of “things that really don’t matter much” I have a question. Is the current rampant craze of tattoos in the U.S. only a fad? I grew up in an era where tattoos were reserved for sailors or guys with large biceps that had “MOM” tattooed on their arm. I can now walk through Walmart a...

Usually the solution is to have a stub of pipe sticking upwards from a tee in the line. I don't know how long it should be, but I suppose a foot or two would be nice. When the line gets pressurized, that stub will contain trapped air under pressure. It will cushion the shock of shutting off a fauce...

Yes, for my plan to work all guns on the planet would need to disappear. After that is accomplished, do we start the elimination of alcohol consumption from the planet? MADD reports a person is injured in a drunk driving crash every 2 minutes, and someone is killed every 51 minutes. How does that c...

I remember that Trump leaned on the FDA to authorize hcq use for prospective randomized clinical trials. But when reports of cardiac arrhythmias surfaced, the trials were stopped. There are a number of retrospective, correlative studies with mixed results but these aren’t helpful. If Trump had orde...

I remember that Trump leaned on the FDA to authorize hcq use for prospective randomized clinical trials. But when reports of cardiac arrhythmias surfaced, the trials were stopped. There are a number of retrospective, correlative studies with mixed results but these aren’t helpful. If Trump had orde...

OK, did what I should have done first, and called Vanguard fixed income desk. Apparently the 30 day SEC yield is a somewhat complicated thing but is calculated the same for all fixed income ETF's, regardless of which company you are looking at. That way it is a apples to apples comparison when evalu...

I don't think the 30 day period (whenever it is calculated) is the issue here. There has been extremely little difference in the 30 day SEC yield in the last several months, so consequently this does not come into play with my question. Regardless of the period, I'm seeing greater than 100bp differe...

I understand that, but it's difficult to believe the yield dropped 127 bp in one month on an etf of this duration.

My mistake, not what intended to type. I'm not trying to compare to MM, just trying to figure out why my calculation for annual return is so much more than the published data.