Maddy wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 6:35 am Well when you're through giving each other hugs ..,

{smart stuff}

is it time to say "Enough is enough?"

My apologies for the diversionary drivel, but … damn. I wish I were as handy with a blade as you are. Aspirational.

glennds wrote: ↑Sun May 21, 2023 11:28 pm My quest for your approval continues Mark.
Code name El Dorado. Not giving up

A worthy quest. There are quicksands of mediocrity in thine path. God speed.

Ahh... more pablum.

That's what we were all waiting for.

Hugs.
XO,
Mark

Argentina has raised it's key rate to 97%. Hard to do better than that. Double your money every year. Seems like a sure thing.

Mark, have you had any experience with drying and dehydrating fish? I have seen dried fish all over Asia, but never gave a second thought to how it was made until this thread and the jerky discussion. Also regarding the refrigerator and the former GF - maybe she wasn't smarter than you after all. A...

Do you like smoke flavor? Looking at the net I'm imagining building a fire nearby and letting the smoke waft through it once in a while. A friend has a freezer full of elk meat and now I'm thinking we should make some elk jerky out of it. The net is (unfortunately) some plastic material. I wouldn't...

While I definitely think that freeze drying is the bee's knees, if you find yourself in the desert, a good net will dehydrate most anything. I've been living off of jerky for the past few weeks. The real stuff is nothing like commercial jerky. Just meat and spice and maybe some vinegar or lime juice...

Kevin K. wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 9:14 am Great stuff.

Yes indeed. Thanks for the tip.

I was in Cartagena Colombia last week and the cab driver had this enormous gold watch on. Clearly fake, but if it were real it would have easily been a solid troy pound. I think that if you want to move metal cross boundaries, the Mr. T approach is the way to go.

yankees60 wrote: ↑Mon May 08, 2023 3:19 pm You can go there and judge for yourself but I don't think AI is capable of creating a list of 50+ investing books to read broken down into four categories.

Ha! Xan and Tortoise are correct.

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 9:00 am Is this yours?

"Getty Images"

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 8:20 am In addition to what I wrote above, keep an eye on interest payments.

This is the answer. When you purchase the bill/bond/note, you pay the "price" plus any unpaid accrued interest - which rightly belongs to the seller.

Thoroughly loving this topic. The whole "freeze" then sublimate process is brilliant.
I'll probably stick to slicing eye of round into strips and hanging it in the desert breeze, but... all kinds of food preservation are fascinating.

With freeze dried meat, (whole pieces or strips, not ground) do you just open the package and eat it like jerky? Or throw it in stews? Or what?

Super fun! Thanks for the report. I had toyed with building one at one time and it's great to know that the real ones actually work.

Didnt work as well as expected. I should post this on Bogleheads. "50% gold is a good portfolio" What didn't you expect? You had several polite, well thought out responses to your post. Information, expansion, requests for your thoughts. Adult discussion. I think the responses speak highl...

boglerdude wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 6:35 pm The only portfolio ever posted here that was arguably stupid was techno's 50%+ gold allocation

I'd be interested in your dissection of technovelist's utility function.

All time highs >:D Would have to rise to 2460/ounce to compare to the September 2011 high (1855/ounce price 33% inflation (dollar devaluation) since then) >:D Is presently comparable to the 1979 highs (in real terms). Thank you seajay. And even in nominal terms, the posted high was 2075 in August 2...

Like you, I typically use GC=F ticker as a rough proxy of the gold spot price since that’s the closest thing I can find on my stocks app. And usually, it seems to be reasonably close to spot. But yesterday there seemed to be a much bigger difference between GC=F and spot, and that’s when it became ...

The "Ban TikTok" Bill (full text) is misnomered. It is a generic Bill that grants nearly "Patriot Act" powers to go after anyone (Section 3) that the government deems a security risk and grants them authority to access any of the suspect's electronic devices and networks - from c...

Nothing wrong with taking a step back when you feel that things are out of whack. Best move in that situation is to move your net worth to risk free assets that will return the risk free rate - and then reconnoiter. If you have the suspicion that the system is broken, but you don't yet know how or w...

... I dont know anyone who needs 250,000 liquidity always instantly available. Businesses need that liquidity to make payroll, pay the janitor, pay the rent, suck up the 3 months accounts receivables. $250K is shite. Business should have to pay for high limits like that ... Interesting. I don't dis...

... It's interesting, and other than the interest expense to the borrowing bank, I'm not seeing a negative effect on anyone, even though something about it feels like sleight of hand to the layperson. ... The negative aspect is that the loans are secured with crap collateral. 30 year treasuries and...

That worked out great for several years until one day she called me to tell me that the bank examiners had come by and discovered blank transfer forms signed by me. Nice work. But it's a problem. The average business that wants to function and stay insured and stay legal has to hire deviants. Someo...

Or... back to my first question, am I missing something? Of the companies that you advise, how many of them have over $1 million per month of cash flow? And of those companies, how many of them keep their working cash in more than ten bank accounts, or have a system to overflow into short term Trea...