TMFGalagan

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TMFGalagan replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 7:35 AM

Re: Income Tax issues

I don't know when Medicare will increase our bills.

See page 3 here (7 of 16 in the PDF): https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10536.pdf

Which tax return does Social [more]

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TMFGalagan posted to the Deranged Monkey Criticism board. 11:25 AM

Fannie/Freddie privatization

Getting FNMA/FMCC out of their stasis has been a favored theme of some high profile investors, including not only Bruce Berkowitz but also our very own Naj.

This from Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho suggests a potential road forward: [more]

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TMFGalagan replied to the Last RoundUp board. 11:19 AM

Re: jnj - interesting observation

what's your evidence for this assertion? I don't have anything to back up the opposing view other than my own anecdotal impression...

Equally anecdotal on my part, I'm afraid. There's an alarming lack of quantitative [more]

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TMFGalagan replied to the Last RoundUp board. 7:08 AM

Re: jnj - interesting observation

predicting how juries will react to individual cases, no matter what the evidence, remains problematic.

due to the anti-intellectual backlash that seems to be infecting large parts of our country, particularly among young [more]

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TMFGalagan replied to the Estate Planning and the Fool board. 3:01 PM

Re: Transferring a trust: tax implications?

What are the tax implications if I withdraw all the prinicpal from Trust #1 and use it to fund Trust #2?

You need to provide more information to get a good answer. Some useful info:
-- Are you the *only* beneficiary? If not, who [more]

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TMFGalagan replied to the Last RoundUp board. 8:54 AM

Re: IBM

Or - Jason Zweig probably invests wisely.

For what it's worth, Jason Zweig probably isn't allowed to invest particularly wisely. Most major financial publications put strict limits on trading in order to avoid the appearance [more]

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TMFGalagan replied to the Last RoundUp board. 1:17 PM

Re: IBM

Someone please talk me down from buying IBM.

Still trading at twice 1998's share price despite having less revenue and net income now (albeit with half the share count outstanding now vs. then, so roughly the same market cap as [more]

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TMFGalagan replied to the Dropout's Den board. 10:41 AM

Re: Re Market

I did take a lovely though brief off-season vacation to the Florida Keys earlier this week for about 800 points of the drop, but my coming back yesterday didn't seem to restore confidence in the market. Maybe the vacation indicator only works in [more]

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TMFGalagan posted to the Dropout's Den board. 4:16 PM

OT: Magnus wins again

Another two years for Carlsen.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/magnus-carlsen-is-again...

The extra-time speed-chess [more]