Saving shekels on home insurance<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nMy favorite insurance broker, Matt Wood of Metz, Wood in Chatham, NY, tells me there are a few ways to save on your home insurance:<\/p>\n
+ Install a water cutoff system. Saves on floods. We have Moen. It’s great.<\/p>\n
+ Have your home monitored by an on-line monitoring service that doesn’t require a pricey landline.\u00a0 SimpliSafe is an approved alarm provider. It provides\u00a0 centrally monitored fire and burglar alarms. About $1 a day.<\/p>\n
You get discounts by providing certificates from SimpliSafe and Moen.<\/p>\n
+ Increase your deductibles. You don\u2019t want to treat your insurance as a home maintenance policy for every little thing that goes wrong. Increasing to a $5,000 or $10,000 deductible will result in meaningful savings, and prevent you from having small claims on your record.<\/p>\n
+ Combine your insurance policies. The most significant benefit that insurance companies offer is a portfolio discount for doing all of your insurance policies together.<\/p>\n
+ Work with an independent agent who represents many reputable insurance companies. A good independent agent will monitor your account for any changes, and will be able to move you to another provider if you face a large premium increase or your provider drops out of the market.<\/p>\n
Watch the Olympics streaming<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou need Peacock Premium Plus for $14. It gets rid of the irksome ads.<\/p>\n
Subscribe and then cancel. Otherwise you’ll be billed forever. I use my X1 credit card (now owned by Robinhood) which allows me to create a one-time, single use charge card. Cancels itself after the first charge. Really useful.<\/p>\n
Upcoming immigration crisis<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nVenezuela’s Maduro faked his re-election this weekend. Surprise. Surprise.<\/p>\n
A quarter of Venezuela have already left. With this fraud, another quarter may leave, Many will arrive at our southern border.<\/p>\n
Back in April the New York Times wrote:<\/p>\n
It’s a stark illustration of the limits of American leverage. Dictators do dictatorship, whether they are under U.S. sanctions or not. In many cases, sanctions tighten their grip on power. There simply aren’t many sharp tools in the diplomatic toolbox for changing another country’s politics. Individual sanctions on people in the Maduro regime would avoid the widespread collateral damage, but many of them are already on the sanctions list.<\/p>\n
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Same old stuff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n+ My friends are falling and breaking bones. They end up in hospital. And hospital is miserable.<\/p>\n
+ Many friends carry their stuff in bags. They should carry their stuff in backpacks, like their grandchildren<\/p>\n
+ Putting your heavy stuff into an airline’s overhead rack is a recipe for a thrown back. Ask one of the young fit men to help. That’s why God made them.<\/p>\n
+ Your family doctor knows diddly squat about moles on your skin. Go to a dermatologist. I had a friend whose family doctor told him that the mole\u00a0 on his back was fine. He died six months later from melanoma.<\/p>\n
+ Three things will kill you — eating too much, not exercising and stressing over Nvidia’s stock. Sadly you have to wait until Nvidia’s net earnings report.<\/p>\n
That’s it for today. I’m going to the Olympics on Wednesday. — Harry Newton<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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