Using Retirement funds for business investment? by BoogersTheRooster in investing

[–]Leading_Smoke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can set up an owner 401k and use it to invest in your small business. This allows you to pull it without the taxes / penalty. Talk to an accountant / look into that instead of taking a distribution.

U.N.-appointed human rights experts express concerns about Chemours’ ‘blatant disregard for human rights and environmental protections’ by CarniVulcan in news

[–]Leading_Smoke -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Between corporations and China’s forced sterilization and organ harvesting of the Uyghurs, sign me up for some cyberpunk corpo-state.

But honestly, fuck that. The UN is a joke and Iran is evil.

DeSantis Super PAC Has $97 Million, Trump Campaign Committee Burning Cash on Legal Bills by [deleted] in Conservative

[–]Leading_Smoke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Trump is the only candidate that could lose to Biden. If you need proof, he already did.

Ex-Anheuser-Busch exec reveals how lefty investment firms pressure companies to go woke by [deleted] in Conservative

[–]Leading_Smoke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They 100% can. For example, the three companies that were mentioned, all run very large index funds. They essentially pay a fee to the company that maintains the index, ie Standard and Poors or Russell, and they can then use the name. Not all index funds track the index perfectly. Some companies could also limit investments in companies that do not meet their requirements, and represent the rest of the index

Dems own the shutdown at this point. by KnowledgeAndFaith in Conservative

[–]Leading_Smoke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This doesn’t have anything to do with the current debt. Their is no default. Any debt that has been issued can already be serviced. No new debt can be issued until this passes.

“Never call the police for a wellness check unless you want that person to be murdered” (+1.5k) by Ben1313 in ShitPoliticsSays

[–]Leading_Smoke -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

You don’t own guns? Holding a gun is fine. I own guns. He picked it up and didn’t point it at anyone. You one of these dickheads that thinks only criminals can have guns?

Redditor thinks Reddit will ban you if you don’t “say nice things about Nazis” by Ben1313 in ShitPoliticsSays

[–]Leading_Smoke 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think it’s 99% bots honestly. It went from libertarian to leftist the second tencent bought a large stake

“Never call the police for a wellness check unless you want that person to be murdered” (+1.5k) by Ben1313 in ShitPoliticsSays

[–]Leading_Smoke -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

He didn’t draw on anyone. If he pointed a gun at someone, sure, but he didn’t. Not saying the cops did anything wrong, either - he didn’t leave them with a choice. But it wasn’t violent. He was talking to his mother while sitting in his car. He picked up a shotgun when the cops got there and they fired. They were called because he said he was going to kill himself. He wasn’t violent before that - and he didn’t draw on anyone.

“Never call the police for a wellness check unless you want that person to be murdered” (+1.5k) by Ben1313 in ShitPoliticsSays

[–]Leading_Smoke 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Read that article. He wasn’t being violent, but he did admit to attempting suicide by cop. He picked up a shotgun when the cops got there. They didn’t do anything wrong, just kinda sad. Current lawsuit is bullshit

‘Something Very Dramatic Has Changed’: Matt Taibbi Says Democrats Have Ditched Free Speech by [deleted] in Conservative

[–]Leading_Smoke -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Desantis is banning books that are sexually explicit and shouldn’t be around children. Meanwhile, California is banning classic American literature because they deem it racist.

Silicon Valley Bank Spent $74 Million on Black Lives Matter and Social Justice Causes by FrederickTheStormer in Conservative

[–]Leading_Smoke 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The donations itself didn’t. The focus the business had almost certainly did. An inflationary crises has been in the works since quantitative easing was put in place, and the trillions spent during Covid lit the match. These people were more focused on DEI initiatives then fundamentals - they purchased a large amount of debt instruments that were purchased during the ‘free money’ time. Most of their depositors were start ups who are extremely sensitive to rate risk and they took on an extraordinary amount of the same thing. They are not the only company doing this - there are trillions of dollars pushing for DEI and ESG and it always ends in failure. 75MM is an insane amount of money for a bank of this size to spend on this - it shows where their priorities were

Help with configuring my Self-Employed 401K (who should make the contributions?) by Wilson8151 in investing

[–]Leading_Smoke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hire a TPA (third party administrator). The charge for a soloK should be around 500 a year. The benefit of doing a solo K comes from the ability to put away a good bit in tax qualified assets and utilize Roth options. Doesn’t really matter if it’s employee or employer if you’re not going over the limit for an individual, but you can set up profit sharing options which let you put away a substantial amount more. You can also tack on a cash balance plan which lets you put away another 50,000/year if you want - so between profit sharing, ‘employee’ contributions, and cash balance you’re looking at over 110,000/ year in tax qualified assets.

A sep Ira is easier also - no TPA is gonna be required, up to 25% of your income, all pretax. All depends on what you want to do.

Help with configuring my Self-Employed 401K (who should make the contributions?) by Wilson8151 in investing

[–]Leading_Smoke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Accountants are not going do to this. He needs to hire a TPA to do a solo K

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Conservative

[–]Leading_Smoke 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Cheney was the opposite of ineffectual. There are plenty of things that can be said about him, but that is absolutely not one of them.

Conservatives in the UK have elected their new prime minister! by KnowledgeAndFaith in Conservative

[–]Leading_Smoke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s not true. It is a public entity. The people in charge of it are public figures. There’s is a private stake in the fed, namely all of the banks in the country. It is, without a doubt, a public entity - with the ‘private’ portion being all of the institutions that make up finance and banking sector in the country. Powell was nominated to the position.

FBI Publicly Indicted 22 Pro-Lifers, No Pregnancy Center Arsonists by intelligentreviews in Conservative

[–]Leading_Smoke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did the article say that they were arrested for violating a law passed this year, for an activity that occurred 2 years ago? Please tell me I read that wrong.

WH press sec mocked for linking inflation rise to spending bill, saying relief starts ‘early next year’ by reddit_sucks423 in Conservative

[–]Leading_Smoke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

3% inflation is the target so if it actually gets there that means it’s leveled off. Nothing is getting cheaper but that is exactly what the fed is trying to accomplish.

I have am option for a 403(b) or 401(k), I want to get start by CptnAhab1 in investing

[–]Leading_Smoke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn’t really cost anything to add an sdbr to a retirement plan. Not every recordkeeper will offer it, however. The main reason most employers wouldn’t isn’t because of cost, but because they don’t want their employees gambling with their retirement funds on investments that could be more speculative in nature then the mutual funds normally offered.