Get a CPA to help with rollover into an IRA.  My bank didn't want to open an IRA without the money to put into it, so I cashed out my 401-k and put it into the IRA that the bank then opened.  I was within the timeline but the taxes got taken out anyway.  I'm afraid that I will get taxed again when I start taking money ...more

Probably over the top.  In the U.S., the tax rate for the highest earners was only 90% or so.  If you're making two or three million a year or more, you're still left with plenty.  If you're working two minimum wage jobs, 10% hurts.  There's more, but I'm lazy.

The irony is mildly amusing, but, in the end, just another nut.

Please! a sqirrel button for the nuts.

Sure.  A tree could fall on you as you walk on campus, you  could get shot by a dimbulb too.  Crap happens.  That's why life's a crap shoot.  And I win the prize for obvious: No one gets out alive.

I've finally figured out what these posts need.  A thumbs up for agreement, a thumbs down for disagreement and a squirrel for just plain nuts.  That's then one I would find most useful.  In this discussion, the nuts would have it.  Wait and see is almost always the most useful reaction.

It's always interesting to watch a financial show on tv.  It soon becomes clear thatt finance is like nothing connected to the real world.  It has it's own logic and it's own suppositions tha may be self consistent but be greek to everyone else.  This article is another financial piece that gets the relationship betwee...more

The new size seems a little too much the other way.  How about going from 0 to six or eight.

If we escape seeing people on foot outrunning atomic explosions, I will be encouraged.  It will be a difficult enterprise.  The casting looks good, so far.  If Ben Kingsly and Harrison Ford don't chew too much scenery, we should be good.