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Comments on Comments #25

October 14, 2008

About a month’s worth of comments!
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Kip Esquire responds to my 401(k) conundrum:

I would hope that your 401(k) has a money-market option.

There is a money-market option. I should have allocated more to that, several months ago. I didn’t. In any event, my 401(k) is rebalanced as of this evening.
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1955Design follows up with,

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Comments on Comments #23

August 7, 2008

Regarding the Zoo millage, which passed overwhelmingly:
“I’m thrilled,” said Liz Kaczmarek, 30, of Clinton Township, who takes her nieces and nephews to the zoo frequently. “I don’t know a person who knows about the zoo millage who said they were going to vote no.”
I didn’t vote at all.  But even if I had, Liz, you [...]

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Exploiting Ignorance: Money for Nothing

July 24, 2008

This post is the tentative conclusion to a series of posts, loosely about the sorts of pseudo-scams that credit card companies use to keep borrowers in debt, which series began as a response to an article I read in Business Week. After all, the fact that most credit card debt collection is an outright scam, [...]

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Comments on Comments #19

July 1, 2008

Joe McHugh left a comment on McCainomics:
All good points, but your article ironically assumes that the gov’t will somehow be efficient with that $300m if it’s not spent on his little contest. We both know, that’s simply not the case.
I made no implications to that effect. I assume, as per usual, that if the [...]

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