From the Star Ledger:
Good news: There’s been a wholesale transformation of New Jersey’s economy
You might have missed it amid the holiday rush, but 2021 ended with some incredibly positive economic news: for the third quarter, the Garden State ranked fourth in Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, growth. Not fourth in the region, or fourth among states that start with “New” in their name — fourth in the nation.
Economists describe GDP as a calculation of the size of a given economy, and New Jersey grew faster than states that critics often point to as role models — places like Texas, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, which published this data, New Jersey’s strong performance was fueled by notable growth in core industries like finance, professional services, and manufacturing.
This top-five ranking is particularly remarkable given our state’s recent history – in the eight years prior to Gov. Phil Murphy taking office, New Jersey ranked 47th in the U.S. in GDP growth. And this GDP data follows other recent data indicating New Jersey is regaining its market share in venture capital dollars invested in the state, as well as outpacing the region and the country for new business formation.
Happy Insurrection Day!
Shiny metals are taking a nose dive after the FED comments of yesterday. It’s far from an investment and merely a collectible. To say otherwise is foolish. At the very least, shiny baubles act as money unlike any other collectible on the planet and can be redeemed as such.
A minute of silence for Ashlee Babbitt ….
Note to self: Stay as far away from the Chicago school system as possible. If anyone needs further proof that the teacher’s unions are maf1a look no further than the shakedown occurring in Obammy’s turf. Then again, where is Obammy and his husband? Why aren’t they getting off the beach and flying to Chicago? So much for the children. Yet another reason why school vouchers are needed.
Wow, another Phil Murphy appointee writing an uber positive opinion piece on his great performance as well as Murphy’s.
For a non-opinion piece on the NJEDA see https://www.nj.com/politics/2022/01/wheres-the-money-state-agency-not-doing-enough-to-recover-money-paid-in-error-report-says.html
Pump’s.
Check this out.
https://sunlightpolicynj.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2021-General-Election-Super-PAC-1.pdf
I did some fact checking on the headline article because I could hardly believe it.
To support the entire article, the CEO and writer of the opinion piece handpicked one of the four quarters last year to say NJ was ranked 4th in the nation for GDP growth. Sadly, for the entire year, NJ ranked 40th.
This article is just another perfect example of how NJ’s worst governor in the last 40 years got reelected. You combine these never ending public image pieces written by all of his patronage picks with his involuntary union contributions to his infinite Super PACs and there is nearly no way he can lose. Though somehow, he almost did.
I’ve always had issues with campaign finance laws. But this Phil Murphy is truly the master of image shaping.
Who knew public service could be so lucrative?
Crypto heading to the crypt?
Thought similar, Q3 numbers really being more indicative of NJ’s lagged recovery than organic growth.
The Great Pumpkin says:
January 5, 2022 at 8:54 pm
Many growth stocks either right back or below their lows from last correction.
The rest of the market will prob follow. Going to pull out the 401k for at least a month. Revaluate then.
Pumpkin went bearish, dead cat bounce incoming.
Murphy, king of brine, forgot to brine the roads yesterday. What an idiot.
Here’s more.
https://www.nj.com/opinion/2021/01/senator-nj-transits-progress-despite-covid-is-undeniable-opinion.html
Well maybe if teachers were treated with respect, we wouldn’t have to do this. Unfortunately, joe public treats teachers like an abused housewife expecting us to do god’s work for free.
Of course it’s too unsafe for offices to open, but let’s rage if the teachers go virtual. We are treated like sh!t, so I could really care if joe public cries about our political activities. It’s not like they care about teachers. So we have to take care of ourselves.
Libturd says:
January 6, 2022 at 8:33 am
Pump’s.
Check this out.
https://sunlightpolicynj.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2021-General-Election-Super-PAC-1.pdf
Here’s more. Your taxpayer dollars spent to promote NJ Transit ahead of elections.
https://www.nj.com/sponsor-content/?scid=168159&prx_t=RNwGAkiBOAjhAPA&ntv_fr
Covid Hospitalizations in NJ
1/5 5,598 (discharges 858 so approx 724 admissions)
1/4 5,464 (discharges 693 so approx 1,002 admissions)
1/3 5,155 (discharges 425 so approx 863 admissions)
1/2 4,717
1/1 4,274
12/31 4,042
12/30 3,864
Judith Persichilli the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health says we should peak around 8,000
Anecdotal the local haunt where my dear old mom goes to socialize with the old Irish crowd closed due to Covid positive cases. That would be Tommy Fox’s in Bergenfield NJ.
I mean if the FED says they are getting hawkish…it’s going down, right? They don’t even have to raise rates at this point because the market is already acting on it, creating the conditions for a recession. We will see what happens. Maybe it was just a head fake yesterday, but sure seems like the stock market is going pop.
BRT says:
January 6, 2022 at 8:48 am
The Great Pumpkin says:
January 5, 2022 at 8:54 pm
Many growth stocks either right back or below their lows from last correction.
The rest of the market will prob follow. Going to pull out the 401k for at least a month. Revaluate then.
Pumpkin went bearish, dead cat bounce incoming.
Of course it’s too unsafe for offices to open, but let’s rage if the teachers go virtual. We are treated like sh!t, so I could really care if joe public cries about our political activities. It’s not like they care about teachers. So we have to take care of ourselves.
Seems like someone is having confidence issues with their 3 shots. Get to work and quit whining.
re: Crypto…
– NAH not yet they have not come back to reality. They are simply crafting a new one. That crypto market is all 100% emotional as there is no earrings to report and there is no P/E. They now think they are somehow tied to the FEDs minutes report as if they were actually part of the real economy etc. It should be a rough year however, their “flippening” where they believe the institutional investors will flock to crypto and replace their low information retail customers and make them all rich (in US dollars only) should be the end..We will have to wait until US and EU regulators put a knife in it…..
“Of course it’s too unsafe for offices to open, but let’s rage if the teachers go virtual.”
Yes are dipshit with zero logic. Schools are place to park kids and hope they learn (ie avoiding a teacher such as yourself), allowing economy to function. Who can work in high priced NYC if little Jimmy is home? Get a grip.
Whining? I’m just calling it how I see it.
Ahh, all of a sudden teachers are important, but when it comes to giving them respect, not so much.
Bystander says:
January 6, 2022 at 9:25 am
“Of course it’s too unsafe for offices to open, but let’s rage if the teachers go virtual.”
Yes are dipshit with zero logic. Schools are place to park kids and hope they learn (ie avoiding a teacher such as yourself), allowing economy to function. Who can work in high priced NYC if little Jimmy is home? Get a grip.
Pumps is working from home right? Not sure which district he is in but there are a dozen now remote in NJ.
Anecdotal my BIL called me yesterday in a bit of a panic, his kids school in Michigan went remote and are not supplying Chromebooks. He could not get his 10 year old Macbook to work on Zoom for school. I explained that the OS needed to be upgraded but the hardware is deprecated and not supported by Apple anymore. He was a bit POed….I sent him down to Best Buy to buy some cheap Chromebooks. Also his boss came down with covid and he had to fly out last night to LA to fill in on a commercial shoot which only added to his stress.
If schools all do go remote then the markets crash. Do it for your investments Pumps, forget the children you greedy bastard.
My district is against virtual. This is not about me.
I was making a simple point. Right now every right winger is ripping teachers…so much red hate for teachers. It’s mind boggling. God forbid you work for a union.
Come on, BRT chooses team red over his own field. The power of politics. He hates his coworkers because of politics.
Catholic schools are open, in class learning going on and has been since the beginning of the pandemic. There was a few months of remote in the beginning and then back to the classroom. They had to turn away people for enrollment at my spouse’s school, not enough room and staff.
Fast, let it out. Scream about those unions and teachers. I thought you were all about americans? So why so much hate for teachers? We are not Americans? Team red treats teachers the same way they treat immigrants.
Then they wonder why teachers have to pay up to make sure that republicans don’t win. Maybe if Republicans weren’t such a threat to putting food on the table, we wouldn’t have to support murphy. Look what Christie did to us. I lost money for 8 years because of him. A tax specifically put on teachers…why? Because team red constantly attacks teachers and tries their damn best to hold down their salary and benefits. F them.
Juice,
Honestly, farm it all out to India. It would be lightyears better than these morons. I think we have all seen enough of lazy ass schools districts dumping all on parents. Have a kid with special needs and see how the kid magically improves with zero interaction. Those IEPs practically take write themselves somehow.
“Oh sorry, technical problems. Could not do call”
“Sally are you there? Jackson? Hello? Can anyone here me? (for 20m)”
“Sorry, our regular zoom teacher is full. It will be a week before child can join”.
Lots of Catholic schools are remote this week.
Great Speech by Joe!
Ed,
My special ed son is in small private school. It is light years better than public in terms of stability, caring and even basic supplies. Only 7K a year for pre-k. Meanwhile, public teachers/PTA want private gifts/donations at every turn to “thank them” for their hard work. Always is our pocket. It makes me want to puke.
Grim – Hochul for Governor?
To-go cocktails may become a permanent NYC fixture
In her very first state of the state address earlier today, New York Governor Kathy Hochul officially called for the permanent legalization of to-go cocktails as part of her $10 billion small business recovery plan.
“Thousands of bars and restaurants, the souls of our neighborhoods, have had to close,” said Hochul during her address. “We’re also going to do something bars and restaurants have been asking for: to once again allow the sale of to-go drinks—a critical revenue stream during the lean times last year.”
The Governor’s proposed plan also deals with the staggering costs involved in setting up outdoor restaurants and bars. “To help offset these costs, we’ll provide a tax credit for COVID-related purchases,” the Governor explained, specifically mentioning outdoor heating systems and seatings.
https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/to-go-cocktails-may-become-a-permanent-nyc-fixture-010522?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&cid=%7Enewyork%7Enatsoc%7Efacebook%7Eechobox&fbclid=IwAR02TYTgcj_X3iPOmHC-ZkLUYXCPZQ-c39vGLB2UooLbz3a7WrbzE5lLlXE#Echobox=1641419034
Look what Christie did to us. I lost money for 8 years because of him. A tax specifically put on teachers…why? Because team red constantly attacks teachers and tries their damn best to hold down their salary and benefits.
Actually, you lost money because the current Lieutenant Governor, Sweeney, and your union conspired with Christie to increase your pension contributions and health care contributions. Are you that naive to think this was done by him and him ony?
Come on, BRT chooses team red over his own field. The power of politics. He hates his coworkers because of politics.
Actually, I love my coworkers. And my department was 100% present the entire year last year, without a vaccine. 80% of my friends are liberals. I don’t judge people on political beliefs, I judge them on their personality and having a clear set of personal values that are compatible with their beliefs.
Bystander,
I’m glad you’re happy with your sons instruction and care. There’s so many options other than public school. The word “public” alone reminds me of a battered and shabby warehouse or process. It reeks of fraud and inadequacy. I see my property taxes and it makes me sick to see 67% going towards “public” education.
If my wife doesn’t get it, she rolls out of this with super immunity. Everyone at her place is dropping like flies, folks she works very closely with. We’ve burned through our stash of rapid tests. They try to keep the “contact tracing” private, but everyone talks. Her phone is ringing off the hook at night with “who got it today” chatter.
I like all the above average teachers, so that’s about 49% of them.
What I really don’t like is a government system run in conjunction with a bureaucracy and a union, none of whom have much interest in excellence in teaching, efficiency, or the satisfaction of the customers.
Imagine if we had that system running restaurants. We’d be waiting in long lines for tasteless vegetarian slop served by surly attendants and would go hungry every summer.
Enough with the teacher bashing. As our resident expert teacher BRT has told us many times the union is the villain here. They control the political process here in NJ and add nearly zero value to the teaching profession.
Local control is the reason we have the best school systems in the country, the state DOE does not make it so, Abbott spending does not make it so. In my town the schools are open, we do not even track Covid cases anymore and if a kid is positive they do not quarantine the entire class. The teachers are great, the admin is good too. My kids are flourishing. Heck I have allot of dedicated teachers and even a school principal in my family. I would not take investment advise from them but they can and do an awesome job of teaching.
Yea, that’s why the union spent millions trying to take out Sweeney. They f’ed us hard. You believe what you want. They played the union. Read christie’s letter to the union before he came in. He straight up lied.
BRT says:
January 6, 2022 at 9:59 am
Look what Christie did to us. I lost money for 8 years because of him. A tax specifically put on teachers…why? Because team red constantly attacks teachers and tries their damn best to hold down their salary and benefits.
Actually, you lost money because the current Lieutenant Governor, Sweeney, and your union conspired with Christie to increase your pension contributions and health care contributions. Are you that naive to think this was done by him and him ony?
There’s that Patriot again. Go america! Yet, doesn’t support education for American children. Not when he has to pay for it. And you wonder why the Republican party is dying.
Fast Eddie says:
January 6, 2022 at 10:04 am
Bystander,
I’m glad you’re happy with your sons instruction and care. There’s so many options other than public school. The word “public” alone reminds me of a battered and shabby warehouse or process. It reeks of fraud and inadequacy. I see my property taxes and it makes me sick to see 67% going towards “public” education.
Does make sense, but still difficult to see how much pain they will allow.
“Surprised there’s even a debate re the Fed. Powell is super-dovish. Look at the record. Saving the stock/bond market (which is his and every other wealthy boomers’ nest egg) from any big declines will outweigh inflation concerns at the end of the day IMO.”
“This doesn’t mean there won’t be bad days/weeks or even months, but I just don’t see him/them letting too much wreckage happen. Again, just look at their record.”
https://twitter.com/ericbalchunas/status/1479083131990945793?s=21
And you wonder why the Republican party is dying.
We’ll see how dead they are on election day this November.
My child’s teacher had erected Zoom infrastructure and sent out a sheet with clickable links for each of six daily 20 minute class sessions, within hours of their final dismissal yesterday.
Fully vax’d kids continue in person learning. That’s a 6 year old and another kid with a special needs sibling at home. Everyone else is remote. 12 kids have been split into three groups. Carry the one divide by zero… that’s eighteen Zoom calls per day for the teacher.
To my surprise small groups are going off without a hitch, everyone’s camera works and parents are punctual, for the most part.
I would love $7K a year child care.
BRT,
“I don’t judge people on political beliefs, I judge them on their personality and having a clear set of personal values that are compatible with their beliefs.”
I think it depends on the values. Mao’s personal values were compatible with his political beliefs. Both quite bad.
One of my good friends at work is pretty liberal, but interested in intellectual matters and open debate. Ten years ago we challenged one another to read the others’ book. She had me read the first Game of Thrones novel, I had her read Atlas Shrugged. She’s still liberal, but down to earth enough and grounded in reality enough to see the stupidity of the woke left. Perhaps due to seeing the hypocrisy of the elite leftists in action going to school at Princeton. Fun rumor – leftist star intellectual professor Cornel West while teaching at Princeton loved hooking up with undergrads.
NY times breaks down the covid hospitalization data by age.
Vast majority are 60 years and older.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/new-jersey-covid-cases.html
Really, you could argue 70 and older.
The Great Pumpkin says:
January 6, 2022 at 9:28 am
Whining? I’m just calling it how I see it.
https://youtu.be/bQHyg37PCww?t=92
“Kamala Harris compares January 6 riot to Pearl Harbor and 9/11”
Someone please draft her into the military and watch her attempt basic training.
Now that’s a movie I want to watch.
“expecting us to do god’s work for free.”
God’s work?
What does that mean even?
That’s as bad as nurses, police, and firemen calling themselves heroes.
You get paid to do something, you AIN’T a hero. You are being paid for a service.
You get paid to do it, its a responsibility. Just like the guy who gets paid to paint your house.
God is one big slacker if he is really supposed to be helping humans-not seeing too much of his great work lately.
Phoenix She May be our next President; the rapid decline continues!
January 6th Honorary Juice Box 2022 ARKK Post:
https://www.barrons.com/articles/ark-etf-funds-performance-51641424042?siteid=yhoof2
3b,
Wouldn’t surprise me. America is a complete clown show armed with nuclear weapons.
The rest of the world should be scared of us, this place is truly mental.
“Biden eviscerates Trump for watching Jan 6 riot live on TV”
More drama.
And Biden can’t “eviscerate” anything. Or ejaculate anything either.
It’s like the dinosaurs are running the planet again.
Ghislaine asking for a mistrial. Juror had previous sex abuse history.
Juror lied or “forgot” on a questionnaire.
Anyone ever see Epstein’s body? Did it go to the same place Bin Laden’s went?
Liberals: A mass of meager muppets wading in a hopeless swamp of the not quite, not yet and not at all.
God’s work. The people doing important jobs that make society go, but because they don’t produce a product for profit, and instead work with people, they get underpaid and disrespected. How many times were teachers bashed today on this blog? Why not other professions, why only teachers?
Republicans: A bunch of fools that when told by a pastor to give their life savings to him in order to do “God’s work” send every last dime and let their own children starve.
Pumps,
In America, if you hadn’t noticed, people only want to pay for things that give them enjoyment. You know, like a big house, big tv, or a prostitute.
They don’t like to pay for things that they need, like toilet paper, healthcare, teachers, or homeowners insurance.
And when they do, they constantly complain about it. But they do like to blow stuff up in other countries, and kill people there, those people don’t count. It’s so much fun that they don’t mind spending money on it, and will even spend more on games so they can pretend they are doing it themselves.
Republicans – God put a foot where the kid’s eye should be..but life is sacred and abortion is a sin against God. Evil Democrats..bless Lord Dumpy and his Christian values.
America used to be the builders, China was the killers.
Now Americans shoot each other on a daily basis, and the Chinese are building all over the world.
No One,
Absolutely, but, that’s where my personality criteria comes in. Sociopaths are automatically disqualified from friendship or even association with me.
“So sayeth the shepherd, so sayeth the flock.”
I personally have assisted in abortions. Maybe “God” is after me for sinning.
For doing my job? Eff him.
Loved that scene in Porky’s BTW.
“Sociopaths are automatically disqualified from friendship or even association with me.”
I don’t think real sociopaths actually care if they are friends with you or anyone else for that matter.
You are safe.
Joe O’Biden: The Ryan Leaf of politics.
LMAO!!
Phoenix,
they don’t care, but that won’t try them from trying to infiltrate your group. Needless to say, Chairman Mao wouldn’t have made it into my group. This was more aimed at Pumps sad attempt to claim I hate people for their political opinions. The large majority of my friends have differing political opinions than I do on many subjects. I don’t care. I care if someone is a good person and fun to be around. A lot of my liberal friends support a national singe payer healthcare system, I don’t. That would never get in the way of my friendship with them.
27,404 PCR confirmed cases today
5,814 Additional probable cases
——
33,218 Total New Cases
+107 deaths reported
Phoenix, sociopaths only want to be “friends” to use you and manipulate you towards their goal.
Overly political/ideology driven folks are problematic and that goes for both sides. The seeming inability to objectively look at things is a big problem.
The issue in public schools is the incentive system, with unions in place the good aren’t necessarily treated better than the bad. the other issue is inefficiency as far as the eye can see. Teacher’s because many see it as more of a calling than a career can be motivated to be truly excellent. Most of the bureaucratic and operational apparatus is purely in this for what they can get so there is no concern for doing things well outside of how they will benefit, the incentive structure is clearly distorted. Looking at the well oiled machine that is a private pre-school vs. a public elementary school the differences in the attitudes towards operational efficiency and excellence is jarring.
Lots of old people are biting the dust.
Just got this from reddit notification titled, “We’re in a bubble folks.”
Currently sitting in an Apple Store about to spend some tendies and I’m overhearing a convo between two Apple employees.
One is explaining the concept of leverage stating that you can x10 on a trade and is explaining the only thing you could lose during a margin call is the upfront cash you put in…
That’s it – when normies are talking about stocks and leverage that is a clear sign of a bubble
Grim – the local testing site in Montclair offers both rapid antigen and PCR testing (until they run out of the antigen tests). Does the state reporting only count the PCR test in those cases or would they both be reported out as separate positives?
I would think though even if they are reported out as separate positives it’s still lower than all the at-home Binax testing that isn’t being reported.
JCer,
There is another issue at play as well. Teachers are stuck teaching what they learned in college. It was not until I was about ten years out of high school that I first realized how far behind the times most schools are today. In the corporate world, we are constantly attending tradeshows, taking new courses and utilizing the latest and greatest tools made available. In schools, I would estimate they are somewhere between 10 and 30 years behind what’s current in the workplace. My son goes to a top 10 high school in NJ. He is the most advanced classes across a broad spectrum of interests. His teachers wouldn’t even know how to do an advanced search in Google or a reverse image search for that matter. I wouldn’t be surprised if they still use microfiche in the school library. Education and private sector businesses should do more to partner to keep things up to date.
NY doctor posted this today 50% positive PCR tests from a school system covid test on Monday of 1100 students and teachers. Town seems to be Summit.
Alexandra Sowa, M.D.
@AlexandraSowaMD
·
16h
50% #COVID case positivity in my NYC suburb school district (NJ) after 1100 students and teachers PCR’d on Monday Exploding headExploding headExploding head. And yet, still no state wide mask mandates. What are we letting happen?!?
https://twitter.com/AlexandraSowaMD/status/1478907172989902848
Here is the story.
https://www.tapinto.net/towns/summit/sections/education/articles/based-on-trending-testing-pool-positivity-rate-from-covid-testing-day-summit-public-schools-pivot-to-remote-learning-january-6-7
“The Fed is slated to start normalizing policy, so odds are that nominal rates could rise to 2% or slightly beyond. But, as this chart shows, the long-term trend for rates remains resolutely down. Demographics are destiny, even during periods of monetary and fiscal excess.”
https://twitter.com/timmerfidelity/status/1479143225680035844?s=21
Why close down at all? In two weeks they will be able to go mask free.
Omicron will settle for nothing less than complete assimilation into the herd.
Money never sleeps, easy money for the banks….800 million every night..
Demand for the Federal Reserve’s popular reverse repurchase program (RPP) climbed to $1.58 trillion on Monday, signaling continued high demand for the overnight facility as 2022 kicks off.
Wall Street has been regularly parking more than $1 trillion overnight in the Fed facility since early August, with demand hitting a peak thus far of about $1.76 trillion in late December.
I would take .05% every night for my cash….to bad it does not get passed onto the savers.
https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/desk-operations/reverse-repo
Skool for tomorrow is delayed opening so far.
PCR testing company reports it some automated process.
For home tests you are supposed to call the county hotline and report it. There is no online way to do it either. So you need to call a phone number during government working hours.
Good luck with that.
NYC seems just as bad too nobody picks up the phone and no answering machine.
https://gothamist.com/news/nycs-home-covid-positives-go-unreported-and-unsupported
How many billions were allocated for this testing and tracing etc?
Juice
Did you family’s move to Bergenfield from JC? Both side of my family are Irish, both started in JC, grandparents moved to Bergenfield, then my parent out to Bergen County.
Northern BC, including all the siblings
Juice: I was never notified about my PCR test results.
Lol that MD actually thinks transmission isn’t happening in school because of mask mandates. People with letters after their name can be really stupid.
What is 0.05% per night annualized? Not a bad return
Juice Box says:
January 6, 2022 at 1:53 pm
I would take .05% every night for my cash….to bad it does not get passed onto the savers.
https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/desk-operations/reverse-repo
Click the link for the news12 story on a friend of mine. Lost a good job, but he is man of principles.
https://twitter.com/realestralph/status/1479076813301329923?s=21
Given the additional risk posed by his obesity, he should reconsider the shot.
New Jersey corruption is alive and well, Loretta Weinberg took care of Blue cross/ Blue shield and is now being rewarded .
https://www.nj.com/politics/2022/01/sen-loretta-weinberg-resigning-to-take-a-position-on-horizon-blue-cross-board.html
Hi All,
So I’m thinking of opening a 529 for my kids (5 and 3). I see that the NJBEST plan allows you to deduct 10k if you make less than 200k (which I hope is AGI). However, idk how I feel about using a NJ based product considering how they squander public money.
Any thoughts or alternatives or am I generally screwed?
January 6th Honorary Juice Box 2022 ARKK Post #2
chicagofinance says:
January 6, 2022 at 11:25 am
January 6th Honorary Juice Box 2022 ARKK Post:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/06/sell-off-in-cathie-woods-ark-innovation-fund-reached-48percent-at-low-point-thursday.html
I won’t respond here…. please contact me.
]LurksMcGee says:
January 6, 2022 at 4:19 pm
Hi All,
So I’m thinking of opening a 529 for my kids (5 and 3). I see that the NJBEST plan allows you to deduct 10k if you make less than 200k (which I hope is AGI). However, idk how I feel about using a NJ based product considering how they squander public money.
Any thoughts or alternatives or am I generally screwed?
It’s January 6th. Did they arrest agent Ray Epps yet? Maybe they ID’d the guy who left the two pipe bombs? No?
https://www.revolver.news/2021/12/damning-new-details-massive-web-unindicted-operators-january-6/
To make things easy, you can reach me at ranredd@optimum.net. I don’t use that email for major things so I’m ok posting here. I’m not sure I have your contact info.
Lol..He’s a character, that’s for sure.
grim says:
January 6, 2022 at 4:12 pm
Given the additional risk posed by his obesity, he should reconsider the shot.
Franklin Templeton runs it. Not really the state making the decisions.
LurksMcGee says:
January 6, 2022 at 4:19 pm
Hi All,
So I’m thinking of opening a 529 for my kids (5 and 3). I see that the NJBEST plan allows you to deduct 10k if you make less than 200k (which I hope is AGI). However, idk how I feel about using a NJ based product considering how they squander public money.
Any thoughts or alternatives or am I generally screwed?
If you can’t get CHI, just open up a Utah 529 and be done. NJ is the shittiest state in the nation for tax treatment. Though Chi may know something I don’t. The last ten times I checked, NJ 529s offered no advantage to NJ savers.
I just looked. Wow. NJ is finally making their 529 option make some sense, now that my kid is almost in college. Next, I would check out the fees and options, though most just do the time based target funds and let it roll. They work pretty well too.
Pumpkin, your hot dog vendor friend is a moron. I respect people who stand behind their principles, but not when the principles endanger others.
Yea, I tell him that he is an idiot. He’s the first person that should be getting the vaccine. Also, should be worrying about his weight as opposed to the vaccine.
Trick – I am a Bronx boy…
I think Chifi told me to use T Rowe Price (Alaska’s 529), so thats what I did.
NJ’s lack of advantage to residents is a joke.
My kids investments are doing great, they’ll never qualify for anything now.
California would enact a sweeping, first-in-the-nation universal healthcare plan under a proposal unveiled Thursday by a group of state Democratic lawmakers, providing health services to every resident and financed by a broad array of new taxes on individuals and businesses.
Though some of the policy details of the ambitious plan were laid out last year, the way to fund it had not been determined . The proposal, now laid out in separate pieces of legislation, faces significant hurdles in the coming months — first at the state Capitol, with opposition from groups representing doctors and insurance companies, and then possibly at the ballot box, as voters would have to approve the taxes in an amendment to the California Constitution.
We did the UTAH 529 plan, doing great should be fully funded to wherever they want to go..
Imagine if the government prioritized its efforts and attention based on actual risks to people’s lives and property, rather than hype.
They would generally screw up the execution of course. Like Bloomberg’s ban on extra large sodas.
Portnoy gave Delucias in Raritan a 9.4. never been surprisingly but passed many times. I will have to verify.
Wife sent me it. Pie looked good. Have to give it a try.
P.S. I love all styles of pizza.
BRT says:
January 6, 2022 at 7:26 pm
Portnoy gave Delucias in Raritan a 9.4. never been surprisingly but passed many times. I will have to verify.
At a minimum, wash $10,000 a year through the NJ plan for the tax deduction. Make sure there is no holding period. You are saving roughly $500-$600 in tax if you are eligible. You make the decision whether it is worth the bother.
Libturd says:
January 6, 2022 at 4:52 pm
I just looked. Wow. NJ is finally making their 529 option make some sense, now that my kid is almost in college. Next, I would check out the fees and options, though most just do the time based target funds and let it roll. They work pretty well too.
Ah I see NJ just changed this.
GME up 26% in after hours, you can’t make this stuff up.
Snow, Ice, cold wind and a Repub “Christian” in hot water. Good Morning, America.
“Former Michigan state house speaker is accused of molesting girl from when she was 14 or 15 after victim started attending his dad’s church
A woman filed a criminal complaint against Michigan’s former House Speaker Lee Chatfield for alleged sexual assault over 12 years
The accuser filed a criminal complaint with the Lansing Police Department which claims Chatfield molested her multiple times beginning when she was 14 or 15
Chatfield allegedly began assaulting her as a teen while she attended Northern Michigan Baptist Bible Church and Northern Michigan Christian Academy
Chatfield taught and coached at the school and was the athletic director between 2010 and 2014
His father Rusty is pastor of the church, the school superintendent and a teacher