#ActualBudget with SimpleFin bridge integration has been working mostly fine for me... Except that

1) vanguard often doesn't sync successfully and needs re-auth
2) apple card sync never worked after syncing once......
3) the envelope budgeting just doesn't work for me. Like I front load my retirement accounts, so I don't have income for a few months, and Actual budget will just freak out because I'm over budgeting every month

It's ok because I only have retirement accounts with vanguard so I'm not gonna look at it all the time and I have very few transactions on Apple Card at the moment...

Has the indiscriminate dishonorable discharge & other humilation of federal employees by #DOGE saved the american #taxpayer money?

Yes, some. Analysts say it amounts to something of a "rounding error" within the overall #budget. Government expenditure has been rising anyway in the same time, so it will be hard to notice at all.

But it has done SOMETHING. Every country in the world is sending its agents (online & offline) now to the #USA to exploit new vulenrabilities.

https://www.aol.com/exclusive-us-intel-shows-russia-173147983.html

#LeftFootForward | Why austerity is a political choice not an economic necessity

"Progressive taxation, equitable distribution of income and wealth did not get any mention in the Chancellor’s statement. No steps have been taken to reduce billions of subsidies handed to banks, oil, gas, auto, steel, internet and other companies. A relentless squeeze of the less well-off won’t help with rejuvenation of the economy. "

https://leftfootforward.org/2025/03/why-austerity-is-a-political-choice-not-an-economic-necessity/

House CMTEs will be asked to cut at least $2T in spending from safety-net prgms. Senate CMTEs might be directed to find a few billion$ in saving -possible to write a final pkg can bridge the diff.

Many conservatives: once a #budget with bare-bones Senate instructions is approved, ldrs will ultimately settle on a less ambitious pkg of cuts -relying on Trump -to muscle it through. HSE House would simply waive its more ambitious budget targets in the rule.
#Austerity #USPol https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/30/gop-budget-house-vs-senate-00258076

No-one expected it to rain bitcoin, but budget week was a tech drought
By Ange Lavoipierre

Even though the tech sector had low expectations for this budget, there's something impressive about the fact that budget week still managed to genuinely surprise and worry even the most devoted realists in the tech economy.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-29/federal-budget-2025-had-a-big-tech-shaped-hole/105104584

"Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ speech, delivered on Wednesday 26th March, laid out a series of welfare cuts and a hefty boost to defence spending, but little in the way of support for local authorities."

"London boroughs receive around 28% less funding per person compared to 2010."

#UKPol #Budget #London #Councils

https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/london/london-councils-on-the-brink-of-bankruptcy-disappointed-funding-reform-was-not-in-rachel-reeves-spring-statement/

#politics ##alt #budget #musk #elonmusk #doge #oligarchy #HHS #FEMA #CDC #FDA #Grants #Moem
Heather Cox Richardson Eliminate FEMA, CDC, EDUCATION, HHS, Grants
3/27/25

#politics # #fascism #corruption #alt #budget #musk #elonmusk #doge #oligarchy #socialsecurity
Heather Cox Richardson Destruction of Social Security Accelerating
3/27/25

Tell me this is not all at the direction of #putin. The #Trump administration has terminated more than 5,300 #grants and #contracts managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development #USAID worth more than $27 billion, according to a document obtained by POLITICO. https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000195-d4ba-dc7d-add5-f6fe93e40000 #foreign #aid #statedepartment #budget #vaccines #food #healthcare #HIV #AIDS

Coquerel, Ciotti et Courson ne décolèrent pas contre Mathieu Lefèvre. Leur collègue macroniste, co-rapporteur de la commission d'enquête sur le dérapage du budget leur a grillé la politesse en communiquant dès hier ses propres conclusions. L'élu se défausse sur Bercy. "C'est totalement en dehors des règles", s'agace Coquerel tandis que Ciotti l'accuse d'user de "méthodes de petit télégraphiste de la macronie". Ambiance.

Really worth watching this clear analysis of Reeves’ Spring Statement, showing that it is deeply flawed. It hinges on maintaining high interest rates to attract foreign investors, but this will in effect bankrupt the UK economy

#UKPolitics #SpringStatement #Budget https://mas.to/@RichardJMurphy/114233131738005285

#SpringStatement Honest, our future is safe in the hands of Rachel from accounts & Starmer from the Tory shires.
#UKPolitics #Economics #Budget #Taxes #Benefits #Reeves #Starmer #Labour
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/26/reeves-accused--balancing-books-back-of-uk-poorest-spring-statement?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Le député macroniste Mathieu Lefèvre s'en prend lâchement aux "services de Bercy" pour le "dérapage" fiscal de 60 milliards d'euros" sur deux ans, découvert après le départ de Bruno Le Maire. L'élu recommande, tenez-vous bien, d'externaliser la prévision des recettes fiscales (Mc Kinsey doit faire péter le champagne!). Je ne peux m’empêcher de penser à cet extrait d'une BD du regretté Pétillon...

Le budget 2026 va être "un cauchemar", selon la porte-parole du gouvernement Sophie Primas après le conseil des ministres. Les difficultés "s’additionnent", selon notre rayon de soleil, qui prévoit que "chacun sera mis à contribution" pour réduire le déficit tout en réarmant le pays. Le tout sans augmenter les impôts car Macron refuse toujours toute hausse fiscale Tremblez, Bernard Arnault et Vincent Bolloré!

Muting "winners" and "losers" today. #auspol #budget

Cartoon as social commentary; artist thought they were talking about the #budget, but really, its all about the Aussie lack of infrastructure and how funny, and typical, it is to drive over cyclists

Yeah, ok, I'm a bit sensitive today after two separate #cycling incidents yesterday; one road-rage and one hitting me through a give-way sign

Simple really is better, more times than not.

Yesterday I figured out how to track savings goals in Beancount (Fava) by creating a parallel BGT currency. It involves more data entry, but it does the calculation between what's already saved and my goal.

Nice, but unnecessary.

Today I scrapped all that (yay for backups!) and simply added the savings goal to the name of each account. Thanks for the tip on the forum, @simonmic