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    Celebrity RIP Garden

    Focus n the Family head RELIGION Focus on the Family Founder James Dobson dies at 89 Conservative Christian leader James Dobson — who founded Focus on the Family and was once called "the nation's most influential evangelical leader" — died Thursday, according to a statement from the Dr. James...
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    Who is in the I-fund?

    I’m trying think this through: Since the I fund reconfigured, are the holdings now more likely to benefit or be harmed by the world changes in US tariffs? And what is the dollar gong to do? Will it weaken? Or strengthen? Because those are the force multipliers in using the I fund as a...
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    OPM Online Retirement Portal

    I’ve only heard they were working on something. You must be among the first here to run into that. Good luck, and let us know how it goes. An after-action report on filing would be good!
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    Celebrity RIP Garden

    RIP Rhode Island Judge Frank Caprio., Nicest judge in the world' Frank Caprio dies after cancer recurrence...
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    The Tariff Talk

    I really think August will be the start of tariffs showing up in prices. By October it will be very apparent. I’m seeing slowing in several sectors now, because of tariffs. John Deere laying off workers in three plants, due to 26% decrease in sales. That’s serious...
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    Retirement- keeping busy? Or making an impact?

    Hey- would anybody be interested in doing a little European vacation ? I’m thinking about Amsterdam for a week or two in the fall- maybe go to the Van Gogh museum. What if we did a TSP talk retiree meetup in Amsterdam? Anybody up for something like that? It’s go now- or forever wish you had.
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    The Tariff Talk

    Is coffee even on the list that Uncle Sam uses to calculate inflation? New data just came out. Inflation is UP- CORE CPI now at 3.1% , thanks to tariffs. Data and the story here...
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    The Tariff Talk

    https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/auto-industry-trump-tariff-impact-955ca0bf Automakers take $12 billion hit from tariffs so far. Thats before the real big tariffs kicked in. Now it’s going to be double, or more. From the article: “Toyota forecast tariffs will create a $9.5 billion burden...
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    The Tariff Talk

    This will destroy US auto companies. Almost of the their semi conductors come from overseas. Every new car today has a ton of electronics. Several thousand dollars worth. They are mostly made outside the U.S. If you double the price of chips, you either have to add thousands of dollars to...
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    Monthly Jobs Report

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    James48843 Account Talk

    For some reason, I’m feeling very uncomfortable suddenly. Like the world is going to wake up to what the tariffs are going to do to the world economy- and everything is about to crash. And I’m fully invested. It’s not a good feeling. Doh! Anybody else feeling unusual?
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    Monthly Jobs Report

    Don’t worry- that won’t happen again. Trump fires the person responsible for revising job numbers. From Slate: President Trump said in a social media post Friday afternoon that he directed members of his administration to fire Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
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    The Tariff Talk

    Wait a day, and everything changes.. was that 15%? Or 25% or 35% , or an extra 40% for transshipments. Another attack on trans? Trump increases tariff on Canada to 35% from 25% Source: Reuters July 31, 2025 7:28 PM EDT Updated 27 mins ago WASHINGTON/TORONTO, July 31 (Reuters) - U.S...
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    The Tariff Talk

    Maybe you are missing the transactions here. European countries can, and DO, mantain sovereign wealth fund holdings. Investments in real businesses, overseen/monitored by the government of that country, that does make money in another market. Deals they are talking about is using their...
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    The Tariff Talk

    I tend to try and avoid foreign made products when I have USA made alternatives. https://allusaclothing.com/ Sent from my iPhone using TSP Talk Forums
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