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I just finished Cooked by Michael Pollan.

Now reading Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

I just finished The Admirals by Walter Borneman and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra.

Now reading Cooked by Michael Pollan.

I just finished Life After Life by Kate Atkinson.

Now reading The Admirals by Walter Borneman.

I just finished Immortality by Milan Kundera.

Now reading Life After Life by Kate Atkinson.

I just finished The Outpost by Jake Tapper.

Now reading Immortality by Milan Kundera.

II think you may be right. Question is, why? How are their needs so different from someone with much less? If nothing else, you're talking about completely different time horizons. Most of us think about how to make our money last our lifetime, maybe leave something to our kids if we're lucky. The ...

For those who like the yield at AmEx Savings Bank but not the clunky website, looks like this summer will provide some relief:

http://personalsavings.americanexpress.com/Tour/

I just finished Thurgood Marshall by Juan Williams.

Now reading The Outpost by Jake Tapper.

Now starting volume 1 of Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson, The Path to Power ... I've been wanting to read that for awhile, but I try not to start a series until I know it is finished. Caro has been particularly frustrating, since what was supposed to be a three-volume series then became f...

I just finished Justice Brennan by Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel.

Now reading Thurgood Marshall by Juan Williams.

I just finished Chief Justice by Ed Cray.

Now reading Justice Brennan by Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel.

I just finished Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple.

Now reading Chief Justice by Ed Cray.

I just finished Wild Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas by Bruce Allan Murphy.

Now reading Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple.

I just finished Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.

Now reading Wild Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas by Bruce Allan Murphy.

I just finished In Spite of the Gods by Edward Luce, Hugo Black by Roger Newman, Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida, and King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild.

Still reading Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.

I just finished Benediction by Kent Haruf.

Now reading Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.

I just finished The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller and Scorpions by Noah Feldman.

Now reading Benediction by Kent Haruf.

bengal22 wrote:Big Thumbs Up to anything by Russo

I agree. Empire Falls is my favorite, but The Risk Pool and Nobody's Fool are right up there, and Straight Man was good as well.

I just finished The Risk Pool by Richard Russo.

Now reading The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.

bottlecap wrote:I would raise hell about this to no end.

Yeah, maybe it's just the lawyer in me, but you are being much more calm than I would be in the same situation. They would probably lose all my business, not just the new credit card.

DanSandberg wrote:

randomwalk wrote:http://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Backdoor_Roth_IRA

http://thefinancebuff.com/the-backdoor- ... ow-to.html

Just found this link myself. Sorry for posting the question before finishing my search.

No problem. I didn't know about this option before I joined this forum.

How permanent does it need to be? We have a locked, gated fence around our entire backyard, which satisfied the city's requirements for safety, but we also wanted a pool fence so that we could let our small child play in the backyard without getting into the pool. Since we won't need the pool fence ...

I just finished Learned Hand by Gerald Gunther.

Now reading The Risk Pool by Richard Russo.

Can I re-download the material I already purchased from Amazon? Yes. You can deactivate the stolen Kindle and activate a new Kindle, and download all your purchased content on the new Kindle. It works the same as if you sold or gave away the prior Kindle and bought a new one (except that the upgrad...

I just finished Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry.

Still reading Learned Hand by Gerald Gunther.

I have also had a savings account with Amex. I was very disappointed with the Amex account. They are no where close to my experience with Amex credit card account. They keep only 1 year of on-line statements. They do not keep on-line tax statement (1099) for interest. If you can't find your stateme...

I just finished Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry.

Now reading Learned Hand by Gerald Gunther.

I just finished A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry.

Now reading Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry.

David Swensen from Unconventional Success : By asset size, foreign-currency-denominated bonds represent a formidable market, falling just short of the aggregate market value of U.S.-dollar-denominated debt. Yet, in spite of the market's size, foreign bonds offer little of value to U.S. investors. Co...

After reading David Swensen's thoughts on international bonds in his awesome investing book, Unconventional Success , I have no plans to invest in this fund. Just pulled this down off the shelf and thought I'd add a few quotes from Swensen: By asset size, foreign-currency-denominated bonds represen...

Which courts? How do you sue a sovereign government for non-payment of sovereign debt? Not only can you sue, but the lawsuits are still ongoing: Argentinian politicians and global debt campaigners have responded with fury to a US court judgment that risks plunging the country back into default. Ell...

I just finished The Elements of Investing by Burton Malkiel and Charles Ellis.

Now reading A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry.

I just finished The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John Bogle.

Now reading The Elements of Investing by Burton Malkiel and Charles Ellis.

First you had the immense American industrial machine. Also by that time most combatants would have been starving (and the Germans were actually starving) if American food had not been available, carried often in American ships. This was all available to the British before America formally entered ...

I am basically a wage earner not doing anything unique or extraordinary to reduce my taxes under the regular system. I do not think I am the person the AMT originally was designed to affect. I think that's true. We get hit hard with AMT because we are blessed with generous salaries and pay pretty s...

1. Earn less money.
2. Pay more interest on your mortgage.
3. Give more to charity.

I just finished The Stone Raft by Jose Saramago.

Now reading The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John Bogle.

I just finished Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago.

Now reading The Stone Raft by Jose Saramago.

The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 , William Manchester's Vol. 3 of his "The Last Lion" work on the life and times of English Prime Minister Winston Churchill, largely completed by Paul Reid after Manchester's death. You'll be fighting the war from the perspective of the Engl...

I just finished Louis D. Brandeis by Melvin Urofsky.

Now reading Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago.

I just finished The Decay of the Angel by Yukio Mishima, the final book in Mishima's masterpiece tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility.

Now reading Louis D. Brandeis by Melvin Urofsky.

I just finished The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima.

Now reading The Decay of the Angel by Yukio Mishima, the final book in Mishima's masterpiece tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility.

Wife bought me the Nexus 7 for Christmas and I've greatly enjoyed it. $199 is a nice price point.

I just finished Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima.

Now reading The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima.

I just finished Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima.

Now reading Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima.

I just finished Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan.

Now reading Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima.

OP is confusing this year with next year as well. Things are ALL SET for income earned in 2012... Not true. In several recent years, Congress passed the AMT fix at the very end of the year for the current tax year. They have yet to do so this year: Congress hasn't passed that extension for this yea...

I just finished Clarence Darrow by John Farrell.

Now reading Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan.

I just finished Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely.

Now reading Clarence Darrow by John Farrell.