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...creditors have no right to your money. One hopes the transfer to a new brokerage should go smoothly: federal regulators show up to oversee the process. In the worst-case (and highly unlikely) scenario that some of your assets are missing, SIPC insurance kicks in, covering $500,000 worth of securities, including $100,000 in cash...
...decided it was worth sharing my recent ruminations with the folks, concluding of course with the conviction that my failure to become an Olympic athlete was all their fault. A feisty rebuttal ensued. Not only did they remind me of the countless practices they drove me to and games they watched, but they even brought out photographic proof of their efforts: my older brother and I holding tennis racquets taller than ourselves, swimming with floaties the size of our heads, and doing gymnastics in matching spandex outfits. (I have since burned the latter...
...which begs the question, is it worth the ghost hunt we've been on since September 11? There has not been a credible sighting of Osama bin Laden since he escaped from Tora Bora in October 2001. As for al-Qaeda, there are few signs it's even still alive, other than a dispersed leadership taking refuge with the Taliban. Al-Qaeda couldn't even manage to post a statement on the Internet marking September 11, let alone set off a bomb...
...Qaeda worth the candle? Yes, some deadender in New York or London could blow himself up in the subway and leave behind a video claiming the attack in the name of al-Qaeda. But our going into Pakistan, risking a full-fledged war with a nuclear power, isn't going to stop...
...Number 1600 echoed her sentiment. When Aee, who holds an AIG-linked trust worth roughly $7000, was told about the assurance by AIG's Singapore management that his investment was protected, he replied skeptically, "I'm not so sure." He said if he managed to get inside the insurer's besieged offices - which looked like it could take him another 10 hours - he planned to "cash out" his entire investment. "There's nothing like cash in your hands," he said...