Why Delaying Your Social Security Benefits May Not Make Sense
Why Delaying Your Social Security Benefits May Not Make Sense
At Warhammer gaming night on Sunday, the topic of retirement age came up. Two of us are retired, but not the oldest people in the group. When a person hits about 60, it’s time to start running the numbers and thinking about when to jump.
WSJ: On the Fence About a Spending Decision? Try the 0.01% Rule
WSJ: On the Fence About a Spending Decision? Try the 0.01% Rule
The Wall Street Journal Personal Finance column presents the 0.01% rule for frivolous spending. I’m not sure it helps.
if the amount of money at stake is 0.01% or less of your net worth. Someone with $500,000 in wealth could spend $50 worry-free, according to the rule.
Politicians like to spend other people’s money, and there isn’t political benefit in being responsible. This is starting to bite us in the ass.
President Trump is a real estate developer and is comfortable working with debt. Cutting the deficit is not something he worries about.
CNN: Cracker Barrel stock tanks after unveiling a controversial logo change
This Cracker Barrel controversy doesn’t make any sense to me. Coincidentally, that puts me in agreement with Cracker Barrel’s target market.
WSJ: It Now Costs $300,000 to Raise a Child
WSJ: It Now Costs $300,000 to Raise a Child
It determined that a married, middle-income couple with two children would spend $310,605—or an average of $18,271 a year—to raise their younger child born in 2015 through age 17. The calculation uses an earlier government estimate as a baseline, with adjustments for inflation trends.
Before Bill Nye the Science Guy became a garden-variety Progressive try-hard, he used to say “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.”
It isn’t plausible that it costs $18k per year to raise a child. Where is the proof?
EPA Proposes Rollback of ‘Hated’ Feature in New Cars
For those who have ever stopped at an intersection only for their car to fall silent and then jolt back to life moments later, relief may be on the horizon.
Some government rules are so pointless or counterproductive, the goal seems to be to punish us or keep us mildly irritated.
Stephen Colbert’s Late Show is getting cancelled, and his competitors aren’t doing much better. Broadcast networks may as well go back to a test pattern at midnight, and just sign off until morning.
President Trump Orders National Parks to Raise Fees on International Visitors
It was a bold choice to wear a straw boater hat for a serious backpacking trip, but it works. This is 1991, in Andalusia, Spain. Gorge, in the Wally Cleaver shirt, was a fun work friend, and Isabel, with the pink backpack, was my best friend and savior. The other four were friends of theirs.
My Spaniards and I were backpacking in the Sierra Nevada National Park. That seems like an unlikely name for a national park in Spain, but it means “snow covered mountains”.
Sweden Cracks Down on OnlyFans – Will U.S. Follow Suit?
Porn is an awkward topic. Anyone old enough and not specifically avoiding it, knows a bit about the evolution of pornography.
Modern physics doesn’t seem to make sense, but the concepts are fascinating. People who know a little modern physics, apply it to situations where it isn’t relevant, like social interactions or pop culture.
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