The Less Blob

I hate that my only deductability route is a 401K and i am stuck with the funds in question. OK, I read up on that loophole. Interesting. Of course, investing in this stock market feels like investing in 9.8s, but I was too chickenshyt to jump back in last year when I was hoarding TP and rice. I was waiting for a crash. The crash happened. And then I was terrified there would be a second crash and I'd lose my job and wanted the cash accessible. Stoopid. I am due to inherit a little money. Maybe this is the time to set up a Roth/IRA as I won't paying any taxes on that, but it would be considered post-tax income.

Is this wrong? "If you file taxes as a single person, your Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI) must be under $139,000 for the tax year 2020 and under $140,000 for the tax year 2021 to contribute to a Roth IRA, and if you're married and file jointly, your MAGI must be under $206,000 for the tax year 2020 and 208,000 for the tax year ..." You can do a traditional IRA if you exceed those numbers, but can't make it tax deductable. So, you have to invest with after tax $, it does grow ta deferred, true, which is good for dividend reinvestment and if you move stuff around a lot, but then you pay taxes again when you withdraw. So a 401K (if you have access) is better as you can at least deduct your contributions, but your investment options are more limited (although you ought to be able to get a low fee S&P 500 index fund in any 401k)

I don't see them. Just a few. If that sells for the opening bid is need to move to Australia.

Not in g - v g although I doubt they are that rough

Of course I also got a slabbed 9.4 for $65. I had 3, I couldn't keep one??

I got a vf 300 for $3.50 and another one for $15 in like 2003 in ebay, so yeah, upside for sure

It is sicily. I have no idea about other places. Italy is a beautiful place to visit

maybe i am just assuming that is what they're hinting at they need the birth records for her great grandfather or something.

Would rather have (and do have, well, I have both) 1st Rhodey. A lot of covers could be "classic covers"

working from home must suck. no constant wave of nude models walking into your office.

my wife is working on her italian citizenship, but the last e-mail from the company that does these things basically made it sound like we'd need to make a bribe to move it forward as, conveniently, all the relevant family birth records are in a condemned building in sicily they can't get into...

It honestly doesn't matter, I am not on pace for the old $20K at this moment, but I am on pace for a number that I can't really ignore. it was one thing when I made $2K in sales and spent $2K, but this is different.

ok. if that happens I probably won't last long enough to get out. i have said a lot of things on facebook.

The IM 150 price seems nonsensical given that a 9.8 118 just sold for $740. I understand 118 may have more in the census, but what would I rather have? And other 9.8s around then and earlier tend to be $150 or less.

Are you really comparing Myanmar to the USA or the European Union in terms of currency stability/confidence? I probably have more cofidence in bitcoin than the Myanmar currency, i don't disagree,

He is not talking about buying and selling slabs. He is talking about finding a cheap raw, maybe pressing it, and then getting it slabbed. There is a whole lot more expertise going on with that than picking the right books, and luck.

why would new money care about this book? or any number of non-key 9.8s? they like 9.8s, but they want them associated to something that may be a key

you were always supposed to report this income though. we've been over this.

not even that tough as it isn't even an obvious book to send to cgc. i wonder how much shilling goes on with some of these auctions?

I went ahead and bought it, $20 or so more than the sales the last 1-3 weeks outside of a MCS BIN that was a little higher. for reasons unclear to me I did not get charged sales tax (which saves almost $30!), which seems to randomly happen. whatever, what's $20 in the big picture, and, actually, I am on par with those earlier sales if I had been charged sales tax on them? I just need to sell it somewhere with no fee if I do sell it one day. I'm a cheapskate, but realize that one a book like this it is really hard to get too great a "deal"

i just wonder why, because i don't think of new money caring that much about a non-key book just because it is probably tough in 9.8

I am not sure this is all put to bed based on what I read.

I'll fixate on something else in a little bit.

Thor 339!

No, it is very select books, where I don't own a raw. We're talking about a list of books that may be no more than 10 and I have 3 of them already. I'd love a Goon 1 and a 3 as I have a Goon 2, but I don't think a 9.8 on #1 is ever happening unless I buy one raw and even a 9.4 is 2X my $300 limit on any book like this.