Letterman and his sexual relationships with female staffers became public when the jealous boyfriend of one of the staffers tried to blackmail Letterman and the FBI had to be called in.

Ivy League plastic surgeon and he does donuts in his Camaro?

The survey had Hilary + 3 lesser-known Dems/Progressives vs 5 Republicans. A "generic Democrat" vs "generic Republican" choice might be more informative, since the Republican choices were divided up among a larger number of more-equally known candidates.

Right, wasn't she in about the same position at the same time in late 2007?

Right, the word "millionaire" is used colloquially to mean a rich person. For most of the word's existence, having a million dollars (in US$ context) was indeed well off. With inflation, $1M isn't really that much anymore, not in the USA. Nowadays, that's probably an upper-middle class net worth (~90+ percentile of…

Isn't this a plot point in "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf"? Honey (played by Sandy Dennis in the movie) supposedly got her husband to marry her because she thought she was pregnant. It was referred to as a "hysterical pregnancy".

I agree with you about the millionaire part - This strategy WILL make you $1M in assets by investing regularly in low-cost index funds, but you will need to start early and you'll be in your fifties or older by the time you've got $1M in assets. This assumes you're making at least a mid or upper-middle income salary…

They have brains in Texas!?!???

Hey, when you get a book written about you after only one season, it has to go to your head:

That guy has his Nikons confused: The oil-spots-on-the-sensor problem applies to the D600, which is(was) the cheapest Full-frame Nikon DSLR. Supposedly the newer D610 fixed that problem, though there are still some sporadic complaints about it.

That guy has his Nikons confused: The oil-spots-on-the-sensor problem applies to the D600, which is(was) the…

Hey, the raw steak people make me think more highly of people who order steak well-done!

There's speculation that koalas could go extinct due to chlamydia.

It serves as a metaphor for what they're doing to the economy, very "meta".

No orange McLaren thread is complete without Bruce and Denny in the 1969 M8B :

You will get a negative after-inflation return if you keep all your money in low-risk, low-yielding bank deposits or short-term bonds. That's part of the point of the exercise - To beat inflation over the long term, you need to be invested in stocks, which historically have returned ~8-10% annualized.

Have you been salad-slut-shamed for that?

Right, 5% would have been a realistic value if you average over a long period that includes the 1970's and 80's.

Historically, gold has NOT been a good investment over long periods. Only when there's high inflation, or very high political / economic turmoil does gold spike in value. If you bought gold in 1980 and held it, you'd be behind stock or bonds.

The stock market typically has returns of ~ 8-11%, depending on the time period you sample and whether you reinvest dividends. But - As the standard financial industry disclaimer goes "Past performance is not a guarantee of future results."

That's a good point - One way to correct for that is to subtract the estimated inflation rate from the expected rate of return from your savings. That will give you an inflation-adjusted projection of the future value of your savings in today's dollars. Future rates of inflation are impossible to know, but…