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Comment on NatWest Bankline convert CSV to QIF by Random MomBlog :: The Mini Re-Test Against (Quicken and) Buddi :: January :: 2010

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:31:29 +0000

[...] suspect the safer route is to use CSV export and then use a CSV-to-QIF tool written in awk, perl, python, or ruby.] And Buddi isn’t Aqua, or integrated with anything else on my Mac. Buddi is a very [...]

Comment on NatWest Bankline convert CSV to QIF by George

George — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:24:38 +0000

Hello,
I’m new to Python and don’t understand what is name of your *.csv file, and where is stored? I copy paste your code into Python Shell.

Regards

Comment on NatWest Bankline convert CSV to QIF by paolo

paolo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:36:51 +0000

Hi Jason, another option could be to use the Qifer web application at http://qifer.seasidehosting.net

Paolo

Comment on NatWest Bankline convert CSV to QIF by john

john — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:49:45 +0000

hello jason
i wonder if you can help? i have suffered the same agonies as you but are not as savvy as you. how do i use the code that you kindly put up so that i can import a csv and hopefully get a qif out at the end??
kind regards
john

Comment on Live chat with a fraudster on Facebook by Patty

Patty — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:45:23 +0000

This happened to me and some of my friends today on Facebook. Exact same MO. What a low life.

Comment on Live chat with a fraudster on Facebook by Jason Trost

Jason Trost — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:49:06 +0000

I knew it was fake from the beginning. “oh man thank goodness i got you online” didn’t sound like him. Also, we haven’t spoken directly in a few years so he would have thrown in something about too.

Comment on Live chat with a fraudster on Facebook by kara

kara — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:58:39 +0000

how early did you know it was fake?

Comment on Live chat with a fraudster on Facebook by Robin Morris

Robin Morris — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:42:22 +0000

So much for readiness to bust these monkeys. I grow weary of financial and governmental bodies paying lipservice to some vague commitment to protect the trusting folks from criminals. But they don’t have the first link in a coordinated response in place.
Oh well, did your heart pick up the pace a bit?

Comment on Boskinomics Is a Recipe for Confusion by P. Stone

P. Stone — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:53:23 +0000

Responses to your 5 points:

1) Not all recessions are the same; they vary in length and severity. Boskin’s point is that Obama’s tax-and-spend liberal policies will exacerbate what is already a deep recession. I agree with him.

2) Agreed, there is some “optimum” tax rate, but the U.S. already has the highest tax rates in the world, both for income and capital gains. A great way to stimulate growth would be to eliminate the capital gains tax and incentivize capital investment. Obama is doing the opposite.

3) You’re right, the President doesn’t raise taxes. But he sets and pushes his tax agenda to Congress and, with a Democratic majority, it’s probably smart as a fellow Democrat to follow your party leader’s agenda. This is quintessential politics.

4) Two wrongs don’t make a right. Moderate conservatives like myself are a completely different breed than the neoconservative, Reagan-esque brand (i.e. high military spending) of Republican politics that President Bush brought to Washington. True conservatives disagree with many of Bush’s policies.

5) As a start-up owner, you’re probably not going to be paying taxes anytime soon, so I agree with you that reducing regulatory overhead is a good solution. However, I think a better one would be to implement tax credits for companies in sectors like solar and wind energy, that act to reduce externalities to society.