| 2013/8/29-11/7 [Finance/Banking] UID:54734 Activity:nil | 8/29 Applying for a home loan now. The loan officer keeps asking why
I wrote large amounts of check, and what they're for, and fax
her proof to support what I said. She said loan regulations have
tightened a lot to prevent money laundry. What is the max amount
of money I can transfer these days without triggering annoying
audits? I am not a terrorist.
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| 2013/5/13-7/3 [Finance/Banking] UID:54676 Activity:nil | 5/13 Does FDIC ever matter? How likely is it that your deposit of
over $250k going to be screwed over in a major US bank?
\_ Was Washington Mutual a major bank?
\_ Was Washington Mutual a major US bank?
\_ Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Good one.
\- As with nuclear weapons, this insurance produces much of its value
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| 2013/3/9-4/16 [Finance/Banking] UID:54621 Activity:nil | 3/9 In a 15/30 year loan, the amount of payment stays the same but
the payment on interest decreases while the principal increases.
Suppose I decide to pay off a huge chunk of principal, will
the amount of interest I need to pay decrease drastically, or
do banks still want to take out a huge chunk of interest rate?
\_ You don't actually have separate "interest" and "principal"; you
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| 2009/11/21-30 [Finance/Banking] UID:53538 Activity:moderate | 11/21 I'm trying to figure out how much I save. Does money I contribute
to debt (student loans and car loan) considered money I "save"?
\_ "I'm trying to figure out how healthy I am. I normally
smoke 2 packs a day but now I've cut it down to just
1 pack a day. Does the reduction count towards health
that I hope to 'gain'?"
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| 2009/2/3-8 [Reference/Tax] UID:52502 Activity:nil | 2/3 Does any democrat pay taxes? Or is it just cabinet nominees?
\_ Democrats are cheap and try to do their own taxes and
that has a tendency to screw things up, whereas Republicans
usually justs pay their accountants and "externalizes" problems
to someone else (their employees). In this respect, Republicans
are smarter, esp. with their money, as expected.
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| 2006/8/22-24 [Politics/Domestic/California, Reference/Tax] UID:44093 Activity:nil | 8/22 This is not a critical tax question so I'm not going to ask my
accountant. At any rate I used to claim "2" on my tax W2 and had
always gotten money back (a few thousand dollars a year) every year,
thanks to itemizing tax & owning my parents' properties in my name.
This year I decided that I'd get more money back immediately and
pay tax later, and decided to put down "3" instead of "2". However,
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| 2003/3/4 [Reference/Tax, Industry/Jobs] UID:27593 Activity:high | 3/3 I have been searching Google and also contacting some friends regarding
the going rate for a 3 month contracting position that might become
full time at a big internet company in Mountain View. The duties
consist of works for a backend Java and Java-related technologies
developer. I have about 5 years of working experience with about 2
years of Java and Java-related technologies working experience. I have
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| 2002/4/1-2 [Reference/Tax] UID:24282 Activity:high | 04/732 How does the home office deduction work? If I work from home 1 day
a week can I report whatever I spend on my workstations/routers/DSL?
\- you know home office deductions are a red flag for audit. are you
sure it is worth it? especially when you start dedecting some
fraction of your PGE bill and only have W2 income. --psb
\_ it's a red flag if you don't own a business. If you do own
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| 2001/1/19-21 [Reference/Tax] UID:20374 Activity:moderate | 1/19 For those of you recommending contract work, do you recommend
being, like a taos whore, or do you recommend pimping for
yourself? (if so, how do you market yourself/get gigs?). I'm
interested as applies to sys. admin, not programming.
\_ I was lucky--I found a guy who takes care of some friends'
contracts. He takes 10%, does _all_ the paperwork, makes sure
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