How Govt wastes our money: Mar 2024
Trumper asks Trump’s
Supremes to keep
his buddy Navarro out of prison
irs.gov/wheres-my-refund:
e-file refunds to your bank take 2-3 days
U.S.
socialism: tax dollars to Intel: $20
billion in grants and loans for Intel to expand
SCAMS/SPINS:
"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be
of value." – Albert Einstein
MAGA destroyed
Reagan’s GOP: destructive-ideology vision of world
Former
VP does NOT support Trump; who said he “deserved
to be hung”.
Trump unable
to make $454m bond in civil fraud case: Bankrupt
7th time?
“If I don't get
elected, it's
going to be a bloodbath for the whole … country”
Trump’s Kushner
wants 'Very Valuable' Potential Of Gaza's
'Waterfront Property'
Leo J. Govoni, FL “borrowed”
$100 million from special needs trusts: defrocked
Charles C. Kulch NH caught
overcharging $ million for advice: defrocked
Half of the advisory
clients reported leaving
their advisor in 2023: market boom
full-service-investor-satisfaction-study:
US Bank, Ed Jones, Vanguard
Goldman Sachs expands
model
portfolio business: personal selection not worth it
Regulator accused
Global Predictions and Delphia of making misleading
claims about AI
Prevagen
does NOT improve memory Fed jury decides deceptive marketing
37 New Cars to
Avoid
Recalls on the Rise;
Refunds
Often Difficult to Get
Social Security’s Top
5 Scam Awareness Articles
Many reasons medical
providers are so vulnerable to hackers: our
data easy target
Costly Social
Security Mistakes That Women Make
Estimate when it is
best for you to claim accurate Social
Security benefits
Consideration Before
Filing an Insurance Claim: it may cost more than it’s worth
Best Life
Insurance Companies: compare at nerdwallet.com,
selectquote.com/
Best donor-advised
funds vs foundation: get checklist of critical questions
File Your Taxes for Free,
maybe: many caveats: If you can’t
pay now
How AI Is Triggering
A Surge
In Scams And Fraud
Common Ways Seniors
Get Scammed: how scams ruin your retirement
Social
isolation and unmet needs, scammers are using ever more sophisticated
methods
Pay
more to feel special at the store or restaurant: ongoing fees to be treated
well?
Religious
charities may lose their tax-exempt status: not ‘operate for religious
purposes’
Employers
that offloaded their pensions to group annuity contracts face lawsuits
Jobs
A
shortage of skilled tradespeople
Real
estate commission deal could save home sales
10 Best-Paying Construction
Jobs
jobs.interestingengineering.com/
Who owns your account now?
Top auto
insurance companies in six main categories.
Median total
household income: households led by someone age 65 or older is $55,000.
Avoid having your tax
returns rejected: avoid paper, enter $ exactly, RMD rules matter.
We Pay Nearly $1,000
a Year for TV Subscriptions: 4.5 subscriptions: $924 per year
More of US Are
Treating Our 401(k)s
Like Cash Machines: up market sparks loans
47% of parents
financially support their adult children: eating
inheritance early
Even mild
COVID-19 can lead to IQ drop: the equivalent of seven years of brain aging
Younger generations of
white evangelicals
are drifting away from their church
Women around the
world are preferring and having smaller
families.
Miracles:
Tidal turbines could power 1,000 homes for a year
AI robot is spotting
sick tulips to slow the spread of disease through Dutch bulb fields
Neuralink’s brain-computer
interface (BCI) technology was able to control a computer
Skin cancer vaccine:
it cut the risk of
melanoma death in half.
Alzheirmer’s
new developments: what to do now
First Pig-Kidney
Transplant
New Advances in Managing COPD
Scientists Are Moving Forests North: Climate change is
altering ecological conditions
Global average sea surface temperature has been record-breaking every single day
How a couple eliminated $100,000 credit card debt
Brain Cancer Treatment Almost Completely Eliminates Tumor In Just 5 Days
Mom saves students from exploding bus
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Lessons from successful investors
How much money do
you lose by taking SS benefits at age 62 vs age 70
The maximum Social
Security benefit depends on the age you retire. For example, if you retire at
full retirement age in 2024, your maximum benefit would be $3,822. However, if
you retire at age 62 in 2024, your maximum benefit would be $2,710. If you
retire at age 70 in 2024, your maximum benefit would
be $4,873. So $4,873 minus $2,710 is $2,163 each month or $25,956 a year.
That is like adding the amount currently received by the average retired person
($1,907 or $22,884). Wow, it really makes a difference to wait. If you can
wait, you would receive $58,476. That is about the same
as the average worker’s annual wages or $59,384. Of course, some folks
don’t have a choice: layoffs and lack of opportunities.
Use a tax-FREE
account: https://www.amazon.com/Tax-FREE-Retirement-code-lifetime-income/dp/1475206976
Roth accounts and
retirement savings
A new report published by the American Accounting
Association found that savers who used a tax-FREE retirement (Roth IRA, Roth
401k) account were less likely to exhaust their savings funds than those who
used tax-deferred accounts (IRA, 401k, 403b). Most tax-deferred users do not
realize in advance the extent of their loss
to the tax bills each year. Many tax-deferred users don’t appreciate this
tax-bill reduction to their nest egg in advance. The events are so far apart
that savers may not make the connection between lower current taxation and 100%
tax-FREE Roth account balances as they age. The care-free emotional boost is
significant once savers start spending their retirement dollars. In addition, some
savers will need the extra money in their accounts as they progress to age 100
or have an unexpected expense.
https://www.amazon.com/New-American-Retirement-System-ReserveTM/dp/1461030072
How much should we
save for a great retirement income?
With rents and food
higher than in the past, your target savings rate needs to change. If you still
have decades ahead of you to save for retirement, it’s OK to cut yourself some
slack on the 20% part of the model. If you’re a young adult, “60/30/10 is just
fine,” as long as you investments portfolio contains over 60% stocks. Many
successful investors maintained over 70% even after age 65 since they needed to
speed their accumulations. The stock market averages provide over 10% returns
over time. And since you have time and can amass a larger balance, you need not
worry about a short market decline. If you have waited to start your
accumulations, you are more likely to reach your goal following this new stock
percentage. Moving up your investment percentage to 20% or more is also
recommended or you will have to settle for less income in retirement. You also
have an incentive to use the tax-FREE Roth account over the traditional
tax-deferred strategy. Since you have no tax obligation when you retire, your
smaller fund balance will go farther in meeting your retirement income needs. The
key to a great retirement income is to live within your means, period.
https://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Afford-Retirement-FEE-FREE/dp/1517738253/
Are senior bank loans
the right investment for you?
These loans are a debt
financing obligation issued to a company by a financial institution and
then repackaged and sold to investors. The loans hold legal claim to the
borrower's assets above all other debt obligations. In the event of
a bankruptcy, these loans will be the first to be repaid. Historically,
the majority of businesses with senior bank loans that ended up filing for
bankruptcy have been able to cover the loans entirely. Senior bank loans are
typically secured via a lien against the assets of the borrower. Senior bank loans typically provide high-yield returns for
investors. Thus these loans provide investors a protection against inflation.
Senior bank loans are typically classified as first liens and second liens. The
valuations of senior bank loans fluctuate often and may be
volatile. Senior bank loan funds typically have a risk-adjusted return
over a three-to-five-year period that makes them attractive to fairly
conservative investors. When the loan funds underperform, bonds sell at a discount
to par, increasing an investor’s yield. Investors can also take some
reassurance from the fact that senior bank loan funds’ average default rate historically
is a relatively modest 3%.
Manage your
financial risks: https://www.amazon.com/Personal-Finance-Smarties-Not-Dummies/dp/1469973030
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Like 1776, this
period is a test
of democracy—We
rejected an "American
fascist" once
The
Path to Dictatorship: 2010-2030
Parallels of this era in the past
may hint at our future: democracy breaks apart legally
Billionaires
paid $881 million for votes in 2022
midterm elections
Nov 2020 Wealthy
discredit election process
Jan
6 2021 Direct
govt overthrow failed: guns
& bombs were ready
Trump
engaged in a "criminal
conspiracy" to stop Biden
“I
don’t f—ing care that they have weapons”
Trump was “detached
from reality”
Trump
used mafia-style intimidation on the defenseless
Trump still terrorizing
election woman
Parscale: “a
sitting president asking for civil war.”
Trump:
“Just
say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me”
GOP fascism: “RINO
hunt armed; no bagging limit” J6
comm threat
January
6, 2021 “A
date which will live in infamy”
Trump’s Supremes END
personal rights & state
laws except for weapons
WMDs
Fascism: GOP
to stop women leaving state for abortion
It’s
not a court. It’s a junta: Two Americas
Trump: President
Biden is 'enemy of the state'
Christian
Nationalist Party (CNP) replaces
GOP
Apr 9 Illustrated
Anne Frank book removed by Florida school
Apr 21 Trump: “I
am your justice”
May 9 Trump
guilty of sexual abuse
Jun 8 Trump
indicted by the United States of America
Violation
of the Espionage Act
Conspiracy to obstruct
justice
Making false
statements
Conspiracy to defraud the
Conspiracy to obstruct
Congressional proceeding
Obstruction of and attempt
to obstruct an official proceeding
Conspiracy against right to
vote
Attempted coup
d'état by
any other name: American
fascism
350+ people have
been sentenced to jail or prison.
Trump and His Gang Get the Mob Treatment
Aug 4 “IF
YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”
Mobster
#1 Enrique Tarrio gets 22 years
Mobster
Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years
Mobster
Ethan Nordean gets 18 years
Mobster
Dominic Pezzola sentenced to 10 years
VIOLATION OF THE GEORGIA RICO (RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND
CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS) ACT SOLICITATION OF VIOLATION OF OATH BY PUBLIC OFFICER
CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT INIPERSONATIN PUBLIC OFFICER FIRST
DEGREE
CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FALSE STATEMENTS AND WRITINGS
CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FALSE DOCUMENTS
FORGERY IN THE FIRST DEGREE
CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FALSE STATEMENTS AND WRITINGS
FILING FALSE DOCUMENTS
SOLICITATION OF VIOLATION OF OATH BY PUBLIC OFFICER
FALSE STATEMENTS AND WRITINGS
SOLICITATION OF VIOLATION OF OATH BY PUBLIC OFFICER
FALSE STATEMENTS AND WRITINGS
Don’t get pregnant in
Dec 2023: Trump
using Hitler language to scare us
“Wannabe
Dictator” runs
our House of “Representatives”
MAGA
kills GOP: Trump kills Reagan’s GOP
Jan 2025 Dictator
pardons himself: his
Supremes agree
Trump’s
plan for America 2025-2028
Miracles that made our world
Our Universe is a
miracle
Light is both
a particle and a wave depending on how we look at the light.
I
don’t think that there is any such thing as a position or a velocity of a particle.
Everything (galaxies
to stones) in universe made of subatomic
energy ‘vibrations’
A subatomic ‘particle’
is the smallest possible vibration (quantum) of a quantum field.
A ‘particle’ is an event;
not an objective thing. This event is set of complex relationships.
New theory may
finally unite
Einstein's gravity with the quantum world
Our Reality May Be a
Sum
of All Possible Realities
Mass–energy
equivalence: E=mc^2. At the smallest
level; Everything is moving
Energy into matter: scientists
converted light energy directly into matter in one step
In place of atomic
lattice, light
waves used to create an optical lattice with same geometry
Physics Nobel Prize:
“entanglement” 2
particles share info instantly at a distance
Quantum
mechanics violates local realism: two objects behave as single system at
distance
New
theory: no need for dark matter; dark energy: energy in universe due to erratic spacetime
“It may be that gravity and quantum mechanics are
exactly the same thing,” Leonard Susskind
Gravity
might induce the collapse of quantum vibrations into 1 quantum state—our
world
Strange state
of physics that allows energy
to flow frictionlessly through a material.
Bending light from
extreme gravity reveals largest black hole
so far
Curved
SpaceTime: heavy masses and simultaneously quantum effects become visible
There is no TIME at this
level because of force fields come and go in all directions.
Universe expanding: events
may not come together like they did before: created our time.
Our planetary
system: rarest
system: only 1% of all systems with same number of planets
Stars fueled by the self-annihilation
of dark matter might have been spotted for the first time by JWST
Inside protons,
neutrons, it
is the fields of the virtual particles that creates its mass.
Gold
made from neutron stars: collisions produce more neutrons:79 protons,118
neutrons
The proton
is so complicated science still finds new energy entities/forces every
year.
“Empty space is a
boiling, bubbling brew of virtual
particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you
can’t even measure them.” Space expanding.
New method to study systems
with long-range interactions: previously puzzling experts
The electricity we use comes
from the field around the wire not from electron itself.
Natural
‘missing law’ explain
how
universe evolved: functions increase in complexity over time
Scientists
build 'baby' wormhole as sci-fi moves closer to fact: inside quantum
computer
starts-with-a-bang/universe-expansion-not-accelerating/
Physicists knew black
holes eventually disappear particle by particle. Now they think everything
else does, too.
Astronomers
discover raw
materials for life are present all across the Universe: methyl cation
New
Astrophysical Models: Earth’s
Building Blocks Contained Water: metal oxides
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