Personal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: Turbo Tax Business for an Estate...
Turbo Tax Business supports State filing? And if so, how well do they do it?Yes, it supports State filing including e-Filing. It's basically a stripped-down version of TurboTax Deluxe,with whole...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: Does Medicare pay for Hospice care?
First my sympathy both and more importantly for the pending loss but also for having to do this paperwork nightmareI suggest you don't use general terms like hospic care but make a specific list...
View ArticleInvesting - Theory, News & General • Re: A time to EVALUATE your jitters
I dunno. I just retired and am not panicking about finances - because what could I do other than hold my best guess at an appropriate asset allocation, including a couple of years worth of cash. But...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: what other financial forums are you on?
One of my favourite blogs (Kevin Drum) is dying, literally - it's touch and go whether he (has) made it through the 24 hours. Alas, it appears Kevin Drum passed away last Friday.Thank you for letting...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: How are you using AI?
Long-term natural gas supply contracts are not anchored to the spot market.Electricity generators participate in the spot market only because they cannot forecast demand perfectly. If there is a polar...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: How do you utilize AI (artificial intelligence)?
Precisely. I think it´s the most useful AI by a country mile.Its DeepSearch feature is pretty insane. Ask it a question of any complexity and you can "see" its rigor in stress testing every singular...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Re: RMD and [Roth conversion]
...planning to take RMDs in a few years and continue ROTH conversions as well. As an example, say I have 1,000,000 in an IRA. My first RMD will be 50,000 and I will do a ROTH for 100,000 as well as do...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: Passport card in lieu of Real ID
Won’t you have to get a Star ID next time you renew your drivers license? I thought that was the whole dealio?I cannot speak to other states but my state clearly states (I just checked again) that as...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: Medical Insurance When Traveling Abroad
We have annual GeoBlue policies purchased through the Trip Insurance Store.We also have multi-year policies with Medjet Assist for international medical evacuation, as Medjet will get you back home...
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Personal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: Is $4M enough?, age:40, valedictorian...
Sharing an update:Housing:At peak of market in Jan, felt little bit wealthy and bought a house for about $900kTook 15 year mortgage as a trade off compared to 30 year for a lower interest rate. 6% for...
View ArticleInvesting - Theory, News & General • Re: Leveraged ETFs - New Paper
It’s an interesting study to compare 100% of an index fund with a 2x ETF and 50% of a vanilla bond fund and do the same with 3x ETF and 67% of a vanilla bond fund. (Or dial it down to whatever your...
View ArticleNon-US Investing • Switching to Europe
Hi fellow Europeans.Does it make sense to tilt the investment more to the Europe index, or is that thought a result of panic and short term performance chasing? At the moment I'm in a World developed...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: Grok 3 AI
You can feed it a lot of detailed info and it does a good job of processing it. In the article posted by nisiprius (also found here at TechSpot: Code:...
View ArticleNon-US Investing • Re: Switching to Europe
Hi fellow Europeans.Does it make sense to tilt the investment more to the Europe index, or is that thought a result of panic and short term performance chasing? At the moment I'm in a World developed...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: Check from the bank of England.
Santander is a global company. If a USA branch isn't helpful, you could try to contact santander.co.uk and ask for advice.I have no experience but this thought occurred to me as potentially...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Re: Overcontribution to Roth IRA via 529 rollover
Thank you for taking the time to write such a detailed response. I really appreciate it.Statistics: Posted by regular guy — Wed Mar 12, 2025 4:03 am
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Personal Consumer Issues • Re: Lighting a closet - strip LEDs?
The final product. My daughter is "over the moon" happy with the end result. A bit of a learning curve soldering connections between the shelves.Here's where I purchased the LED's and the power supply...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Re: Why not VIGAX (Growth) vs VFIAX (S&P500)
Give this entire thread a read and ask yourself how it’s any different than what you propose. Note the exact date the thread was started and the comical nature of what transpired after. Why the...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: Self-employed but cosigner on adult...
So I’m in an unusual situation, at least for me.Currently self-employed, no steady paycheck coming in.That’s not a concern, but suddenly adult child needs me as a cosigner on their rental lease.In the...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: reliable washer (top loading)?
... I think the same is largely true with washers, most of the development and market has moved to front loaders, so whatever is still top loading is the low end of the spectrum. ...Out of curiosity,...
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