In response to the anticipated flood of new insured patients looking for appointments with the same number of doctors, my doctor decided to set up a $2,000 annual paywall if you would like to continue seeing him. Since I only go to the doctor once or twice a year, the $2,000 fee was a nonstarter fo...

And various people in the middle of mental illness crises who were shot at (sometimes killed) by police because their fits were a bit too inconvenient.

RuralEngineer wrote: We'd all have a personal unicorn with wings to fly us around while we ate cotton candy but didn't get fat.

Now what could possibly be wrong with that?

"Another Tesla Model S Caught Fire After A Crash In Mexico" http://jalopnik.com/another-tesla-model-s-caught-fire-after-a-crash-in-mexi-1453376349 If this continues Tesla could go the way of the Edsel. But then again, “We were able to contact the driver quickly and are pleased that he is ...

Amazon is offering Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century Kindle Edition free for a limited time. Not sure when it ends. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CATSONE/ Thanks, Pugchief.  I just got my free copy today, more than a month after you posted the details. ;D

If I can get over my addiction to convenience, I'd switch to a small bank.  The problem I have is I live in the NYC metro area, where practically all the banks are mega banks.  The few small banks that exist are in out of the way locations, meaning 20 to 50 minutes of driving to do transactions (and...

MediumTex wrote: Drones and Skim Milk! Thank you God bless you all And may God continue to bless the United States of America [Crowd goes wild] You ought to add speechwriter to your list of careers, which so far includes attorney, chaps maker, and carpet cleaner. :D Don't forget truck driver.  :) Y...

MediumTex wrote:

Drones and Skim Milk!

Thank you
God bless you all
And may God continue to bless the United States of America
[Crowd goes wild]

You ought to add speechwriter to your list of careers, which so far includes attorney, chaps maker, and carpet cleaner.

What else are they giving away?

Now that they have to pay out more than $1 billion in various fines for their crimes, they have to make it up somehow.  They figure if you have $50K in revenue running through your account every month ($600K annually) you can afford to upgrade. Make that $13 billion in fines: http://www.huffingtonp...

How would they deal with the insurance companies who would find themselves suddenly out of customers? From a purely cost perspective, if they can't compete with something like Medicare one might say they deserve to be put out of business....but I'm sure their CEOs, boards of directors, major shareh...

If you decide to go for the class, don't internalize any dogma, and don't return to be "checked" later.  Even though they will assign you a mantra, you can use whatever word or phrase of comfort you prefer. TM is part of a religion--your specific mantra will usually be the name of a Hindu ...

Libertarian666, they're trying to make all of us "upgrade" to accounts where they can get more fees.  The business account I have has no minimum balance or monthly fee, as long as I do at least 8 debit card transactions per billing cycle.  And since I have it as part of a premier package t...

I got one of those letters for my business account earlier this week.  It's another way to get more fee revenue from anywhere.  They can't gouge consumers so easily anymore, thanks to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.  There is no equivalent protection bureau for small businesses, so they're...

The modern banking system is a total scam. There is no such thing as a debt ceiling, because the minute said "ceiling" is reached the whole system will crash, and everyone that matters in the system knows it.  Current struggles over this ceiling are merely political theater.  Buy gold and ...

Sophie and Rye, the folks at Betterment seem a bit smug and naive.  Apparently they have not lived through many recent stock market corrections, otherwise I can't see how they can give such advice.  It was just in 1998 that a bunch of algorithm geniuses at Long Term Capital nearly imploded the world...

Here's an interesting take on where you should put you emergency fund--in stocks: https://www.betterment.com/blog/2013/08/06/safety-net-funds-why-traditional-advice-is-wrong/ The (moderated) comments are as interesting as the blog article.  And this topic seems to have gotten the most comments of an...

Some movies are plot-driven, others are character-driven.  Both can be great.

Switch the occupation "cop" with "stripper" and there would be less weeping over the school's request.  As Pointedstick said, context matters.  I can imagine a variety of different working uniforms a school might request a parent to not show up in to pick up the kids. What's real...

I think the big difference for me was that I actually was in a typhoon in the South China sea (interestingly around the same time as the Apollo 13 misadventure), so the effect it had on me was that of rekindling a memory. Something tells me there is a small hoard of gold somewhere at the bottom of ...

Mintproducts.com sells individual 20 Franc coins.  They sell coins one at a time, but their premiums may be a bit higher than Gainesville and the others.

One factor to consider is that there's lots of attention paid to the stock market on a minute by minute basis during the week. This is not the case with the other PP assets.  Several cable TV  channels are dedicAted to following stocks during the week, despite their occasional reference to bonds and...

He's like a teen heart throb who has aged out of his audience's demographic but doesn't realize it and keep releasing silly songs that start to look pathetic when sung by a full grown man. After reading this MT, I had an image of Justin Bieber at the age of 52, trying to shake it on stage with a ne...

Maybe that's why the insurance companies are so gung-ho about taking back the Costa Concordia.

The gain I reported was comparing the end of the 3rd Q to the end of the 2nd Q.  The peaktotrough.com site shows a +1.73 gain for an investment July 1 through September 30 (3rd Q).  And my PP is about 29% stock and 19% LTT--which has an effect on my outcome.