In reaction to the US Federal Reserve's recent actions in cutting interest rates, Ally Bank is cutting the interest rate on the Kingdom's savings account from 1.5% to 1.25% effective tomorrow (following up a previous cut from 1.6% to 1.5% on March 13).

1.25% is still a solid rate for a savings account (better than the current yield on 20-year Treasuries), but I've done a little bit of shopping around other possibilities as a result, and am somewhat tempted by Varo.  I'm going to see if they cut their rates soon, or stick to the 1.61% they're currently quoting on their website.

So, you painted a Discordian icon and a Subgenius icon . . . and both with a lot of green.

Quote from: Ian Plätschisch on April 27, 2020, 09:51:47 AM
You know I am a sucker for graphs, so, given this graph, where would you make the cut off?

Well, I'd be tempted to use a fixed cutoff date of February 22, 1998.

Sure, I'll check in.

Ahah, partly my fault for posting so little  ;D

Did you get my email where I laid out the funds and a few approaches?  I've been fighting with the forum software.

The system wants me to include a secret code when I send a private message.  I don't know of one.  Help?

Quote from: Lüc on March 02, 2020, 04:56:28 AM(Also, am I seeing Istefan Perþonest officially reneging on his own "Perþonest Plan"? :P)

The purpose of Fiova was to give the Republic's citizens a room of their own in the Kingdom.  Both an outside evaluation (seen from their role in the recent governments) and an inside one (measured by their own willingness to go through with the F-F merger) suggest they don't need one anymore.

So, both as the designer of the "Perþonest Plan" and as the only person to ever be Cunstavál of Fiôvâ, I'm perfectly willing to hoist a "Mission Accomplished" banner and toast Fiôvâ at its merger and/or dissolution.  That the time for something passes is oft enough a signal of success, rather than failure.

Now that the attempt by Fiova to seize control of it has been thwarted, I suggest that we, the population of Benito, do everything possible to bring the secessionist canton of Florencia back into our provincial embrace.

One potential means to help secure that outcome, rather than seeing any further Frankenstein proposals like the previously-thwarted one by advocates of provincial mergers, would be to also back the dissolution of Fiova, in favor of restoration of the traditional border between Maricopa and Maritiimi-Maxhestic.