Bogleheads.org

Just another example of why the US healthcare system is so dysfunctional.

For what may happen when you say that the ticket was owned by an entity, see the Tax Court opinion in Tonda Lyn Dickerson, T.C. Memo 2012-60 (2012): http://www.ustaxcourt.gov/InOpHistoric/DickersonMemo.TCM.WPD.pdf . I cannot believe that I found an opinion by a tax court so thoroughly entertaining ...

3, 2, 1 . . .

I just put two kids through college... University of Kansas... about $15k a year including room and board... $60k total for each of their degrees... And that's with sorority fees... Could be done for less. There should be a simple college admission test. "Are you willing to pay $200k for your ...

I think Lady Geek needs to create a new forum for Lending Club aficionados.

Wow. 991 sq. ft. on 7.6 acres!!! And, on a "Quite complex"!!

I assume they meant a quiet complex. If so, sounds like one of those Nigerian scams.

It's "Groucho Marx" Here is the alleged conversation: "Groucho, how do you invest your money? I buy government bonds. You'll never make any money doing that! If I have enough of them, I will." Here is another of his hilarious scenes (as Wolf J. Flywheel): Wolf J. Flywheel (Grouch...

Frugal Al wrote:There's indeed a lot to admire and be thankful for in Sir Winston Churchill, and in VT for that matter. Still, I had no idea VT was Churchill's father.

+1

I think someone needs to tag a few posters with [chronic complainer]

I just bought a pair of 2 lb Indian clubs from Revolution Clubs. And they have truly revolutionized my upper-body fitness routine. Check out this old-fashioned piece of equipment on YouTube. Great for strength, endurance, flexibility all at once. If you are not in shape the one-pounders might be be...

P/E of Total Int is 16.6
P/E of Total Stock Market is 18.0

A sale, perhaps, but not a Black Friday sale.

ObliviousInvestor is obviously a nom de plume for sscritic!

Here is the full story: Someone claimed him as a dependent. The family thinks it may have been his estranged mother or his mother's brother-in-law who did it. The estranged mother lives in Texas and the taxpayer, who turned 18 in March, 2012, lives in Hawaii. The taxpayer did not live with his estra...

Pardon the subject line, but a friend of mine e-filed his taxes and the IRS rejected it because he was claiming exemptions for people who have already been claimed by someone else on a different tax return -- he was apparently claimed as a dependent by someone else. He was not a dependent of someone...

Hello, We are putting money into the Vanguard Prime Money Market Fund first, then are going to move it into various balanced funds after it is all there. I noticed the .16% expense ratio -- is that taken out of our principal funds? I had thought that Money Market funds like this kept the principal ...

Thank you to everyone.

Where do I find the Excel FV formula?

1. Meet Valuethinker and take him to dinner
2. Meet Princess Kate and take her to dinner
3. Take both Valuethinker and Princess Kate to dinner
4. repeat
5. repeat

I am going to loan a relative some cash. I will use round figures here. I am trying to figure out the interest due when the principal is paid back (all payments will be going to reduce the principal balance and the interest won't be paid until the principal has been paid back). I searched online for...

Just be prepared to suffer through the world's most expensive traffic jam/

OK. Let's vote. Who thinks that reading this thread and posting in it has been a valuable use of your time? Should anyone else waste their time reading it? How would you rank this thread among the over 100 threads now on the front page? I vote no and 63. There are worse threads, but not that many. ...

Will this be before or after North Korea's "pre-emptive nuclear strike"?

HPPH, thank you for your contribution to this thread.

We plan to move to Taiwan upon retirement and live out the rest of our lives there. I know Taiwan is not a place people think of for retirement but it's my wife's home country so obtaining residency for me is easy and the national healthcare system is very good. "the national healthcare system...

I hope this isn't 3 foot-long (or almost foot-long) Subway sandwiches per day.

I'm still reading the article, but am floored that a "non-profit" can, in actuality, make an annual profit in excess of $500M..... On the backs of those least able to afford it - the uninsured. Well, then join me on the floor for a permanent home when you learn that the billion-dollar NFL...

Stunning article.

I bought the 2270DW on sale at newegg for 90.00 in july and it has worked at well..has a lower per sheet cost than the Samsungs.. Compact Laser Printer with Wireless Networking and Duplex Overall Rating:( 4.5 out of 5 ) Prints up to 27ppm Built-in wireless 802.11b/g and Ethernet network interfaces ...

Thank you all.

I have several 529 plans for my various grandchildren. My inlaws want to contribute something this year for their 3 grandchildren (which are also my grandchildren). Can they contribute directly to the 529 plans that I set up, or should they just give me the contributions and have me contribute, or s...

Hello Jerilynn, You keep using "dental tx" in your posts. Sorry, but what is tx? Sorry. Tx=treatment Sx=surgery Dx=diagnosis Px=panorex CBCT=Cone Beam CT scanner SOM/scope=Surgical Operating Microscope Thanks for the explanation Jerilynn. I was emailing someone who kept talking about Sx. ...

Just a passport and a bulletproof vest.

AQ wrote:I just wish the tax code was simpler...

AMEN
+1000000000

Expenses for room and board must be incurred by students who are enrolled at least half-time. The expense for room and board qualifies only to the extent that it is not more than the greater of the following two amounts. a. The allowance for room and board, as determined by the eligible educational...

I understand that room and board is a qualified expense living on campus. However, if the student is going to a community college which does no have on-campus housing, is the student allowed to claim rent and food costs as a qualified expense?

Thanks.

I would advise against doing this:
http://www.nydailynews.com/autos/journalist-ordered-pay-176k-blowing-engines-rare-porsche-article-1.1245981

Yeah well.... Safer to uninstall all your browsers and disconnect from the web...... Hardly a practical suggestion as Java is so heavily used. Java script is used for many web pages, so disabling that would be draconian, but Java on the client (personal computer) is not. Javascript and Java are two...

sscritic wrote:disable
http://www.java.com/en/download/help/di ... rowser.xml

uninstall Mac
http://www.java.com/en/download/help/ma ... l_java.xml

Thank you sscritic!

A very good question. I have wondered the same thing as I, too, do not use IE, yet get those files.

Northwestern Mutual
5 years and no increase

I don't have any actual figures, but I have noticed over the last 25 years that the US$ seems to have lost much of its value in asia -- specifically, in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. I just know that my money went a long way in the past, and not so long at present...

gkaplan wrote:I stand chastised.

Though almost anonymously.

A very interesting article at http://baselinescenario.com/2012/11/29/high-frequency-trading-and-high-returns/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BaselineScenario+%28The+Baseline+Scenario%29 The rise of high-frequency trading (HFT) in the U.S. and around the world has...

SHL wrote:Having said that, the best "tablet" for toddlers is the LeapPad2 Explorer Learning Tablet from Leap Frog.

+1

Somewhat surprised to see so many bogleheads unwilling to accept responsibility for their actions.

Tech Spot's Budget SSD Roundup
http://www.techspot.com/review/597-budget-ssd-review/

But a lot of Internet commerce does involve eventually shipping a physical object, often the cheapest option turns out to be USPS, and often if it is shipped by USPS or Fedex, the item costs more than it does in a store. So the end of the USPS would probably have a noticeable negative impact on Int...

Kathleen Ryan wrote:

Back View: Boglehead T-shirt edit. Katie helped me. Actually she did it all!

Like

I like the first coment: This madness needs to stop. Put a 10 second delay on all order cancellations. Placing and cancelling orders in milliseconds serves no purpose other than to bump a stock price. Allowing this type of trading is a prime example of why small investors are have no confidence in s...

Whatever you do, make sure your neighbor is not John Gotti's widow.