Prompted by the case of a JP Morgan customer Dave DeSmidt who lost his 25 years savings in this lifetime retirement funds ($179k) — “In an instant, retirement savings vanish“, there has been various discussions of fraud guarantees offered by some of the brokerages. Apparently,
while credit card and online banking accounts are legally protected in [...]
Talking about alternative asset classes, barefootjan from the Diehards forum posted an interesting article that appears in the New York Times. The article “Is It Time to Add a Parking Lot to Your Portfolio?” notes:
Macquarie Bank says parking lots and roadways are potentially as valuable as oil pipelines or electric companies. It views a private [...]
After reading a recent article in PCWorld, I switched my DNS server on my router from those operated by my ISP to those from OpenDNS. In my unscientific tests, I noted a drop in delay in the time taken to lookup a given website.
The following information is from OpenDNS:
Why should I use OpenDNS?
Why is OpenDNS [...]
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