Trump will still be president when I have to start dealing with the Required Minimum Distributions for my IRA CDs. Where will those post-tax withdrawals go? I’m considering T-bills and notes for shorter-term interest, and perhaps bonds for when I’m gone. With that in mind, I’ve been following the bond market.
Category: Politics, Religion & Money
Angry Old Man Music
Green Day’s American Idiot was released shortly before Dubya was reelected. The idiots weren’t paying attention, because 20 years later they elected Trump to a second term.
Ol’ ’55
We’ll never have a president who was born in the Fifties, but now there’s an American Pope. He was born in September, 1955? In Chicago? Hey, me too!
A few of the important questions for him start with, was he a Beatles fan? Did he read comic books and have a crush on Angela Cartwright? And what about the influence of not only A Charlie Brown Christmas, but also It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown?
A Room at the Rock
“It sort of represents something that’s both horrible and beautiful.” — Donald Trump talking about Alcatraz
Something that’s both horrible and beautiful? Yeah, I can see that.
Canadia for Canadians
Trump saying, “never say never” about the United States annexing Canada as the 51st state deserved the reply, “It certainly won’t happen in your lifetime.”
The Monkee Men of Alcatraz
Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5387239/trump-alcatraz-reopen
