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  1. #14751
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    Quote Originally Posted by Toadman View Post
    Well it's horrible advice if you live to be 90 YO. Not so good advice if you die at 66.
    Taking it early also limits spousal and survivor benefits.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dunfree View Post
    The fed buys up debt to provide liquidity to promote orderly market function. Illiquid assets can be both over and under priced/valued.
    if huge corporations can't do this on their own then something is wrong so the gov't steps in? wtf?
    it's welfare
    the next house of cards is corporate debt?
    they get bailouts too big to fail?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CovertM View Post
    Lol, don't touch them, never will. Unwind quite a few BS products that people come in with though. Clearly you don't understand what a fiduciary adviser does, I couldn't touch those products and hold myself out as a fee only adviser. Sorry the annuities touched you inappropriately and you didn't seek advice.

    If you took SS at 62 or even FRA, sorry. Where else can you get a guaranteed 8% annual return (not including COLA)? I can't promise that! Can't tell you how many people have showed up after taking SS early because of conspiracy guberment BS you alluded to.

    edit: just say 4matic stating the same thing.

    take a walk benny and listen to another Bogle interview
    You know what's funny about your 8% talk? Well, besides unexpected major illness and/or death, instantly muting the argument. Which happens a whole lot post 70 for, at least, men. COLA. SS will go up 5.1% next year, rumor has it. Thanks, inflation. I'll buy another beer in the Dolomites. Cause that's what it is. Beer money. So to speak. I mean, I know that half of Americans in or near retirement will only have SS. Not the TGR demographic, but, half of Americans is a lot, and woe to them. It isn't or won't be easy, but, what's the alternative for so many discarded, like Pynchon said, metal turnings on the shop floor of capitalism. And they have no voice, because they have no money. Nobody cares. and most are too embarrassed to think beyond day to day. I mean, why would a financial advisor talk to them? They have no money.

    I like to think that financial advisors are like active fund managers. They have enough personal self esteem that they feel that they can do what nobody else can, and that's beat the market long term. They think they can bring value to the proposition, a secret trick, just like the private school their clients get fleeced for their kids. Gotta be an angle. But, in the end, there ain't. It's real simple, real obvious, been stated over and over. Sorry. So, why should anybody pay for that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by dunfree View Post
    benny vs 4matic in the retired blowhard battle Royale.
    Maybe these two financial geniuses could contribute to the send a deserving maggot to Europe fund?
    Quote Originally Posted by Downbound Train View Post
    And there will come a day when our ancestors look back...........

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    Shit, I already won that one. Homemade.

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    That was predicktable.

    Go on Bunny. Give something back to this place.
    Quote Originally Posted by Downbound Train View Post
    And there will come a day when our ancestors look back...........

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    I like to think that financial advisors are like active fund managers. They have enough personal self esteem that they feel that they can do what nobody else can, and that's beat the market long term. They think they can bring value to the proposition, a secret trick, just like the private school their clients get fleeced for their kids. Gotta be an angle. But, in the end, there ain't. It's real simple, real obvious, been stated over and over. Sorry. So, why should anybody pay for that?
    Damn dude you are seriously demented.

    People pay me a lot of $$$ to do what I do because they don't have the background or knowledge and its money well spent. I pay a cut to my FA because of those very same reasons. For me it has been money well spent.
    I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.

    "Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Toadman View Post
    Well it's horrible advice if you live to be 90 YO. Not so good advice if you die at 66.
    In simple terms yes, but there is much more to it. Taxes for one. Like I said, if you have cash that's already been taxed to draw down it's a simple decision. You need to calculate what you need to live on and work off that number. It's not about when you pass.

    For example, I took the Covid 19 401k withdrawal and also took monthly 401k systematic withdrawals so I could get a mortgage and have cash to live on. After I got the mortgage I paid back the 401k withdrawals to lower my tax burden. With interest rates so low it works to have a mortgage and use the cash to postpone taxes.

    This is why it pays for me to postpone SS. When I do claim it I can lower my systematic withdrawals to again, mitigate taxes. The bottom line is, if I wait to claim SS it will pay all my monthly fixed expenses, plus change, so my 401k withdrawals can be managed to minimize taxes.

    I know that a mortgage is not tax efficient when you are minimizing income but I'm calling that a luxury to live where I want in a house I like.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bunion 2020 View Post
    Damn dude you are seriously demented.

    People pay me a lot of $$$ to do what I do because they don't have the background or knowledge and its money well spent. I pay a cut to my FA because of those very same reasons. For me it has been money well spent.





    it's not that hard. Won't take you long to learn. You have a business? An accountant and lawyer in the same room every now and then is better than an FA shingle. It's not hard to get certified. It ain't Harvard.

    Costs kill investments.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
    You know what's funny about your 8% talk? Well, besides unexpected major illness and/or death, instantly muting the argument. Which happens a whole lot post 70 for, at least, men. COLA. SS will go up 5.1% next year, rumor has it. Thanks, inflation. I'll buy another beer in the Dolomites. Cause that's what it is. Beer money. So to speak. I mean, I know that half of Americans in or near retirement will only have SS. Not the TGR demographic, but, half of Americans is a lot, and woe to them. It isn't or won't be easy, but, what's the alternative for so many discarded, like Pynchon said, metal turnings on the shop floor of capitalism. And they have no voice, because they have no money. Nobody cares. and most are too embarrassed to think beyond day to day. I mean, why would a financial advisor talk to them? They have no money.

    I like to think that financial advisors are like active fund managers. They have enough personal self esteem that they feel that they can do what nobody else can, and that's beat the market long term. They think they can bring value to the proposition, a secret trick, just like the private school their clients get fleeced for their kids. Gotta be an angle. But, in the end, there ain't. It's real simple, real obvious, been stated over and over. Sorry. So, why should anybody pay for that?
    According to Benny plan on dying young so front load your retirement income and spending. Genius!

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    Quote Originally Posted by fastfred View Post
    when you guys stop fighting over who has a smaller dick can someone answer a question for me

    the gov't (or fed) buys up corporate bond debt?
    this props the company up makes it look good
    isn't it the same as giving food stamps and a monthly check to a welfare mom?
    why do they do this? sounds like socialism to me

    please answer in a way that a third grader can understand
    The fed only bought corporate debt for a few months last year to add liquidity and after the GFC. They've since sold that off. Now they buy government and agency bonds. It's more incestual in that fact.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 4matic View Post
    According to Benny plan on dying young so front load your retirement income and spending. Genius!
    Do you know how much SS actually is? You're going to plan your life around that, or 25% more of that, if you're a good boy? That's what five to ten years of your life is worth?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
    Do you know how much SS actually is? You're going to plan your life around that, or 25% more of that, if you're a good boy? That's what five to ten years of your life is worth?
    I do know how much it is. I know you need the $900 a month in SS now to get by but don't equate that as a wise financial decision for others. An extra $125k over 4 years doesn't matter that much to me in the long term. Knowing that I will have x per month guaranteed in a few years goes a long way with planning. Initially I was going to take SS early but it just doesn't pencil out or make any sense in a long term plan considering how low interest rates are now and taxes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
    You know what's funny about your 8% talk? Well, besides unexpected major illness and/or death, instantly muting the argument. Which happens a whole lot post 70 for, at least, men. COLA. SS will go up 5.1% next year, rumor has it. Thanks, inflation. I'll buy another beer in the Dolomites. Cause that's what it is. Beer money. So to speak. I mean, I know that half of Americans in or near retirement will only have SS. Not the TGR demographic, but, half of Americans is a lot, and woe to them. It isn't or won't be easy, but, what's the alternative for so many discarded, like Pynchon said, metal turnings on the shop floor of capitalism. And they have no voice, because they have no money. Nobody cares. and most are too embarrassed to think beyond day to day. I mean, why would a financial advisor talk to them? They have no money.

    I like to think that financial advisors are like active fund managers. They have enough personal self esteem that they feel that they can do what nobody else can, and that's beat the market long term. They think they can bring value to the proposition, a secret trick, just like the private school their clients get fleeced for their kids. Gotta be an angle. But, in the end, there ain't. It's real simple, real obvious, been stated over and over. Sorry. So, why should anybody pay for that?
    Jeebus, you’re fucking dense.

    Equating an active fund manager and an Adviser tells a lot about your knowledge of the profession. Investment management is one tiny sliver of the value pie that clients get from me. Apparently they’re all so stoopid for entrusting me with their millions when they could do it themselves and have to take SS early because they don’t know WTF they’re doing.

    I’ll give you $100 dollars if you can pass a CFP practice test on the first shot. You pass the CFP test in three tries, I’ll give you $1,000 and reimburse all of your exam fees. Now STFU and go back to DCA…oh wait you don’t have any money to invest because you’re already living on your reduced SS payment and clearly bitter that you made poor financial decisions throughout your life. Let me guess, it’s all the market’s fault.


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    Quote Originally Posted by 4matic View Post
    In simple terms yes, but there is much more to it. Taxes for one. Like I said, if you have cash that's already been taxed to draw down it's a simple decision. You need to calculate what you need to live on and work off that number. It's not about when you pass.

    For example, I took the Covid 19 401k withdrawal and also took monthly 401k systematic withdrawals so I could get a mortgage and have cash to live on. After I got the mortgage I paid back the 401k withdrawals to lower my tax burden. With interest rates so low it works to have a mortgage and use the cash to postpone taxes.

    This is why it pays for me to postpone SS. When I do claim it I can lower my systematic withdrawals to again, mitigate taxes. The bottom line is, if I wait to claim SS it will pay all my monthly fixed expenses, plus change, so my 401k withdrawals can be managed to minimize taxes.

    I know that a mortgage is not tax efficient when you are minimizing income but I'm calling that a luxury to live where I want in a house I like.
    This!

    Until RMDs kick in and you’re forced to pay the man. Would be interesting to see what a 401k rollover and Roth conversion would do in early retirement years or from 70-72 when you’re hopefully only taking SS income. Plenty of ways to model it and be efficient as possible.


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    Quote Originally Posted by CovertM View Post
    I’ll give you $100 dollars if you can pass a CFP practice test on the first shot. You pass the CFP test in three tries, I’ll give you $1,000 and reimburse all of your exam fees.
    I’m not a financial planner, but it’d seem Benny playing dumb would pay off.

    😁

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    Can I bring my slide rule?

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    Unsurprisingly, neither Bunny or 4masturbate contributed yet.
    Quote Originally Posted by Downbound Train View Post
    And there will come a day when our ancestors look back...........

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    I am entertained. Thank you.
    Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
    Henry David Thoreau

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    Just checking in.

    As expected volatility has come down. Im 10% short. 90% long. In last while shorted runners like Prog Mrin. Covered already.

    Took long position in T. That 5.5% dividend attracted me. Filed away with xom irm and their like for high yields and dividends.

    Increased my yolo on Riot. Also took long position in HUT as another crypto miner.

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    I bought T this week too. Bought some VZ too even though I hate the company now (I’m a customer fwiw)

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    But what does it mean?
    Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
    Henry David Thoreau

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    Quote Originally Posted by shera View Post
    But what does it mean?
    There are massive pool and boat parties going on that you were not invited to...?

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    I guess so
    Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
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