I suspect that the paper-gold to physical gold ratio will further increase from recent 122:1 levels. Looks like a big buyer, 100Bn, perhaps Russia, buying 1500 tonnes of physical gold, via Options (expiry settlement in physical gold rather than cash). With current sanctions those trades being appli...

dualstow wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:57 amWho knows

Well, I think we can all agree that the possibilities are higher that they do something toward Israel if Israel does as you suggest?

The whole Social Security thing is a double tax as not only will those Require Minimum Distributions push me well into the 22% marginal tax bracket ... it will also result in more Social Security being taxed (at that 22% marginal tax bracket). Seems like that could be viewed as a 44% federal tax ra...

dualstow wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:46 am It has been said that if Israel takes out Iran’s drone facility in its anticipated response, this will degrade Russia’s ability to use drones against Kyiv.
Wouldn’t mind seeing that.

But then how does Iran respond to Israel?

So maybe this whole "we pay half of our money to the government!" meme is a bunch of baloney pushed by people trying to make you mad and turn off your brain so you'll make bad decisions that just so happen to serve their purposes. What are some examples of these bad decisions? Voting for ...

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You are correct about effective tax rate ...which is different from marginal tax rate, which is the tax rate on your next $$$ earned. For my 2023 tax return I am in the 22% federal tax bracket. State is 5%. Therefore, 27% total for the next $$$ earned. But then there is Social Security / Medicare, ...

We are already making tentative plans for another trip in December 2024, but who knows what the country will be like at that point. With the US clearly indicating that its abandoned Ukraine !!! Did I miss some major breaking news of some new development regarding the United States and where it stan...

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dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:46 am

vnatale wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:50 am I read Naismith's biography and don't remember that part.

Wait- was he known for something else?

Which part are you thinking of?

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:17 am Invented by a Canadian-American, basketball.

I read Naismith's biography and don't remember that part.

But you are correct!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith


However, he invented it AFTER he moved to the United States.

How're everyone's investments going? Swimmingly. Have you figured out some fun new dates? Or, are you guys blasting the opening to Rush 2112 on the way to Tim Hortons for scones, and then a game of curling. Actually, that doesn’t sound so bad. O0 Or, right now watching the UConn / Purdue game? I kn...

Whoah!! Almost 2300. I have the same question as the title of this thread....is this because people think the Middle East situation is spinning out of control? Or that some kind of economic apocalypse is being predicted and I just haven't noticed? Or, do we indeed have inflation, it's just not refl...

When did acknowledging that your institution is on “Located on Occupied and Unceeded XYZ Ancestral Homelands” become a thing? Is it anything other than empty virtue signaling? I have yet to encounter this. What are examples of this? From Perth Mint's website: Acknowledgement of Country: We acknowle...

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4.7 Magnitude Earthquake Rattles New York City and Beyond

I hadn't intended to change the colors, but the latest version of the "Elegance" style removed the 7 different color variations, of which "steel blue" was the one we used here. I could probably use an earlier version of the style and get our old colors back. I LOVE the new look!

Anyone else experience the earthquake centered in the New York / New Jersey area??!!! I was sitting at this table and it was wobbling. I was wondering what one of my cats was doing on the this table on the other side of the computer monitors to cause this to happen. Then I heard a noise which I agai...

Xan wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:39 am Okay, we're now running the latest version of phpBB, which supports media embedding via the [media] tag.

Viz:

New colors are nice.

Looks like I can create this but cannot read anything because of this:


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