Max that HSA contribution if you can. It’s triple tax free. You can contribute tax free, your money grows tax free, and if you use it for health care (including Medicare premiums) in retirement, you NEVER will have paid taxes on your contributions or earnings. It’s a gamble, no doubt, with the high ded. plan but if…

Resize the window, that breaks the slide show and gives you a normal format

This is one of the fundamental principles that have kept me from jumping into the Apple ecosystem. While I understand its appeal having everything in the ecosystem deeply intertwined, I hate the thought of being locked into it. Apple intentionally makes things incompatible, proprietary, and/or locked down. I…

First, let me say that I read the initial article a few hours ago, and then read this follow-up just now, and I was very glad that I did. This is how we should be debating serious issues, from places that either assume or acknowledge that one, the other, or even, both, don’t truly understand the experiences that…

Screw this.  If k or ok does the job that is what I am using.  If you can’t handle it.....too bad.

I, as a strong but not THAT strong person, notice a huge loss of power when I’m wearing normal training shoes doing deadlifts. Sometimes I’ll do them in socks only because I don’t want to bring a different pair of shoes with me to the gym just for one exercise. I make sure its the first thing during my workout so…

Do you have a huge disparity in credit scores? I found that was a huge red flag when dating. If they didn’t have good credit, it was pretty much doomed.

closet-meathead answered this best. As a gym employee, I understand why we generally can’t allow barefoot lifting due to technical standards of safety and the idea of cleanliness, but it’s also a very functional way to plant yourself on the ground for deadlifts. And there’s absolutely nothing gross or unhygienic about…

For a deadlift you don’t want cushy insoles or raised heels as it makes the lift harder and less anatomically efficient.

Its a fad in the same vain of barefoot running. The idea is that your heels can generate more power for squatting/deadlifting when you have increased balance, which is presumably easier without shoes. In reality, it’s fine to just wear shoes without fancy padding/structure (i.e. not expensive running shoes). The same…

I don’t love the annual fee or the $4,000 minimum spend to get the signup bonus.

yes. They don’t care ‘who’ you are. They care about matching the pile of information they have with the face in the pic. They will also link that with whatever links you to other company databases they have bought. This could include DMV databases from some states, and corporate databases that they ‘partner’ with.…

It probably tries, but with no profile to ‘tag’ I can’t really see how it could do anything. 

Definite yes on the Amex perks as long as they don’t goad you into buying stuff you don’t need.  During the last few years, they have offered a cash back reward for using your card to pay your phone or tv bill.  I believe those got me $30 just this year.

Fully automatic computerized trading hasn’t operated on the timescale of days any time in this century. From Wikipedia: High-frequency trading:

That’s really not true. There are almost always worrying indicators in advance of a recession.For example, every recession in the last century was preceded by a bond inversion (long term bonds became cheaper than short term bonds).

Now, it’s pretty common to have worrying indicators that end up being a false alarm. You…

You’ll know a recession is coming when nobody thinks a recession is coming.

If you are not a frequent flyer you are best situated to always purchase a flight based on price, and not a specific airline. Because of this, an ‘airline-specific’ credit card is likely a poor choice. Your best bet is getting a card that gives extra points on travel/flights. Cards that come to mind are both Chase…

If you are not a frequent flyer you are best situated to always purchase a flight based on price, and not a specific…

Lame survey.  It really just tells you what percentile you fit in for earnings and IF you think that percentile is rich, then you are rich.  Worthless.

That was dumb, as it doesn’t account for assets. My income might not be top 1% worthy, but my net worth sure as shit is.