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The Economy (2020/21)

"...we now have 28 years of experience with Reaganism. The average income of the bottom 90% of Americans is today what it was back in 1980, when you adjust for inflation, and the incomes of the top tenth of 1% and above have gone through the roof. It doesn’t work. It works if your goal is to take from those with less to give to those with more. But fundamentally, it doesn’t work."

 

stoney

Part of the unwashed, middle-American horde
Jul 26, 2006
21,616
7,276
Colorado
As you are retired I would assume 95% your funds are in an array of CDs?
Why the fuck would you do that? Have you never heard of inflation? There are investment options between cash and stock that have different levels of risk/reward. Even in retirement you still need enough growth to, at the minimum, try to offset inflation (~2.25%/yr) let alone get growth to counter your down years.

do MRD requirements change once you reach retirement age?
They start at age 72 and go up slightly every year.

For 5 years, right? JBP’s RMDs are the required ones at 70.5 or 71.5 or whatever it is this year normally.
You had the option with Inherited IRAs to draw 100% within 5 years or if you set up RMD's within 1 year (iirc), you could do a "stretch" IRA and extended it on your life expectancy.

no, MRD's are required for inherited IRA's annually.
SECURE Act changed everything for RMD's going forward. New RMD's are not required until age 72, unless you are already drawing them. If you have an inherited IRA that you had prior to 1/1/20, you can continue your "stretch" IRA annual RMD payout rate. Going forward however, the longest you can make an Inherited IRA last (with some exceptions) is 10 years.
 

Toshi

Harbinger of Doom
Oct 23, 2001
38,319
7,744
Treasury yields are SUPER super low.


Given this why are we not making the money printer go brrrrrrr for the benefit of us proles much more?
 

stoney

Part of the unwashed, middle-American horde
Jul 26, 2006
21,616
7,276
Colorado
You better have the whole damn nut in cash, cause there ain’t gonna be no damn reasonable mortgages.
House prices are in large part determined by rates. If people can't get loans, because banks won't take large loan risks, prices will be forced downwards. It's part of why houses until the 90's were reasonably priced. If you can only spend $2000/m on a mtge, and it's common across the market, but rates are so high interest makes up 90% of that, prices will be forced down. It's just math.
 

rideit

Bob the Builder
Aug 24, 2004
23,351
11,516
In the cleavage of the Tetons
House prices are in large part determined by rates. If people can't get loans, because banks won't take large loan risks, prices will be forced downwards. It's part of why houses until the 90's were reasonably priced. If you can only spend $2000/m on a mtge, and it's common across the market, but rates are so high interest makes up 90% of that, prices will be forced down. It's just math.
The dynamics are a little different here in LaLa land, but yeah.
even in the downturn a few years ago there was always someone with more cash or access to mega Jumbo loans to prop the pricing up.
 

Jm_

sled dog's bollocks
Jan 14, 2002
18,998
9,659
AK
Careful.

When shit goes south californians buy houses.

You don't want any of this. We're fucking assholes.
Watching the median...or hell, average, price of homes rise to more than what a person earning a "normal" income will earn in any reasonable amount of time (like in the Bay Area, for starters, but really, ANY place these days that anyone wants to live)...few shits given. So many people are obsessed with buying a house and that being an investment that will get them "set" for life. Again, few shits given if that falls apart. This market has been propped up and hyper-inflated for decades and it's due for a collapse. Your 300K investment turning into 700K locked many other people out of owning a home...so F-you when it falls apart.
 

DaveW

Space Monkey
Jul 2, 2001
11,210
2,735
The bunker at parliament
Aviati..... I don't care what your sniffing! Better bloody well have a good chemtrail dispenser built in then..... and software that's looking for a fight with you.
 

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
54,442
20,248
Sleazattle
"Aviation grade", please.

Need to adopt ASE standards, develop a simple, cheap and easily produced design. One in every town square, mini-mall, golf course, yacht club and country club.

No big deal if the blade hangs up every once in a while. Adds a bit of drama.
 

Adventurous

Starshine Bro
Mar 19, 2014
10,344
8,902
Crawlorado
Need to adopt ASE standards, develop a simple, cheap and easily produced design. One in every town square, mini-mall, golf course, yacht club and country club.

No big deal if the blade hangs up every once in a while. Adds a bit of drama.
They already make those, just in a mobile version.



Refine your swing and it will eliminate the need for multiple hacks.