Re: What's your budget look like? + MORE

No formal budget. All dividends ,cap gains, taxable and tax-exempt interest in our portfolios are reinvested.Social security, my small retirement, RMD from his IRA, and tax-exempt interest from a muni portfolio provide our spendable income. We have no debt.Basically: income=expenses. If there is a surplus, we save it for a nice trip or DH gets itchy and trades in a car for a "new" used one of some kind he hasn’t owned before.

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Middleby CEO Selim Bassoul lays out his thought process when determining whether an acquisition will be successful.    

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In the following video interview, Motley Fool CEO Tom Gardner speaks with Middleby CEO Selim Bassoul. Since becoming CEO in 2000, Bassoul has led a remarkable transformation at Middleby, the cooking equipment maker, turning the stock into a nearly 50-bagger over that time…

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