Found this very helpful. But of course, it fits my demographic, now. Doesn’t it? ====== By LAURA SAUNDERS WSJ Feb. 5, 2017 10:12 p.m. ET If you are one of the millions of Americans with a retirement-savings account, three of the most important letters in your financial life might be these: RMD. They stand for required minimum distribution, which is something that the nation’s... Read more
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Everything about 401(k) and IRA Withdrawals
February 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, Personal, Tax IssuesBernie Bashes Wallstreet
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Politically correct, The LeftSo, this is ‘Big, bad, Wallstreet, eh?’ ============== By Bret Stephens, Feb. 8, 2016 7:14 p.m. ET Last Friday a crane collapsed in lower Manhattan, killing a man named David Wichs. The next day the papers told the story of his life: a Jewish immigrant from Czechoslovakia; a math whiz with a degree from Harvard; a thoughtful neighbor and husband; “the nicest,... Read more
A Chipotle Education
December 25 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Food, non-GMO, Western CivilizationWhen Chipotle went non-GMO, I stopped ‘going Chipotle’. Non-GMO is ‘anti-reality’. GMO is about making life better for more human beings. ===== “The all-natural evangelists get an E. coli reality check.” Dec. 22, 2015 7:07 p.m. WSJ The executives at Chipotle Mexican Grill have been, well, dining out for years on their self-styled reputation for “food with integrity.” So their competitors who by implication... Read more
The Illusions of Paris
December 13 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Global Warming, ObamaIts a religion, and worse than most religions. ====== WSJ 12/2/2015 The running melodrama of the world climate-change talks reassembled in Paris this week, and word from the worthies is that this time the 196 nations are poised for a momentous breakthrough. Well, not quite. The politicians want a deal so badly that they’ll accept anything that can pass as one, but it... Read more
Fossil Fuel Free Is No Country for the Poor
March 28 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, EnvironmentAs I have posted before: Fossil fuels have done more to improve the lot of the poor than ANYTHING ELSE in the past, or ANYTHING proposed by the benevolent elite. ============ By Donald J. Boudreaux March 27, 2015 5:56 p.m. ET Richard Branson,Arianna Huffington and several other business icons recently called on world leaders to commit to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Such a... Read more
Net Neutrality?
March 14 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Henninger, Losing Freedom, Obama, TechnologyThese guys must have attended public schools. ===== By Daniel Henninger March 11, 2015 6:58 p.m. ET Washington’s seizure of the Internet is one of the great case studies in the annals of political naïveté. Over several years, leading lights of the Web—among them Netflix,Google and Tumblr—importuned the Obama White House to align itself with the cause of net neutrality. “Net neutrality,” like so many progressivist-y... Read more
