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- Fri Apr 08, 2016 10:11 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Minimum Wage Now $15 an Hour!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9662
Re: Minimum Wage Now $15 an Hour!
The entire universe of options are: 1) eat the cost and operate at a lower margin 2) transfer the increase to consumers 3) increase productivity 4) cost out in the business Results: Part 1: Options 2 and 4 will be what most big box retailers will do since their scale allows for it Part 2: Option 1 w...
- Fri Apr 08, 2016 12:20 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The Metropolitan Plan: Swapping Bonds for Gold
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7785
Re: The Metropolitan Plan: Swapping Bonds for Gold
Interesting read, what's the source? Would like to read the rest of it. I don't know where MG saw it, but it is at http://thecrux.com/porter-stansberry-a-crisis-is-coming/ Thanks, watching his youtube now. Still waiting for the punchline on what to invest in or how to prepare. I suspect it will b...
- Fri Apr 08, 2016 9:05 am
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The Metropolitan Plan: Swapping Bonds for Gold
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7785
Re: The Metropolitan Plan: Swapping Bonds for Gold
Interesting read, what's the source? Would like to read the rest of it.
- Wed Jan 20, 2016 7:22 am
- Forum: Stocks
- Topic: Where is the money going?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 16875
Re: Where is the money going?
debt payoff?Desert wrote: And of course some of the money is just ceasing to exist.
- Fri Jan 15, 2016 9:30 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Stocks Crashing! Thank God For The PP!!
- Replies: 90
- Views: 44105
Re: Stocks Crashing! Thank God For The PP!!
I just don't watch the market. Actually nowadays I don't even really check the forums.
I made it through the last crash through automatic investment and ignorant bliss. This resulted in some pretty fantastic returns.
I made it through the last crash through automatic investment and ignorant bliss. This resulted in some pretty fantastic returns.
- Mon Jan 11, 2016 1:43 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Average Investor Return for 2015 was -3.09%
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7287
Re: Average Investor Return for 2015 was -3.09%
My bad results were solely due to long bonds and gold. If I hadn't touched those, I'd have been flat for the year. Get used to it...more of the same this year. So tired of this portfolio. Down, down and more down. Thought we were getting there. No such luck. you could always go all cash... down yea...
- Thu Jan 07, 2016 1:32 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: HBPP component predictions for 2016
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10852
Re: HBPP component predictions for 2016
I am very bad at predicting commodity prices, and gold is even harder to predict than oil. But generally I see no reason for gold to have a significant gain in 2016, considering the low inflation environment. Gold to me does whatever it wants. Reason or not. That very fact makes me wonder if it w...
- Thu Jan 07, 2016 8:40 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: HBPP component predictions for 2016
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10852
Re: HBPP component predictions for 2016
I think this is the strongest voting to one particular asset (gold) I have seen in a long time.Simonjester wrote: i am amused to see Kim Kardashian photos have made the list again this year, but i think the market has moved on to bruce/kaylen jenner photos for 2016
- Sun Nov 29, 2015 5:34 pm
- Forum: Bonds
- Topic: Something is very off in the bond market
- Replies: 44
- Views: 24583
Re: Something is very off in the bond market
Big Corps are doing share buy-backs. Heck a lot of them are taking out low interest Corp loans to buy back shares that pay a higher dividend.ochotona wrote: Corporations, pension funds, insurance co's, mutual funds. Even if interest rates go negative, they can't keep billions in $100 bills.
- Tue Nov 03, 2015 9:25 am
- Forum: Cash
- Topic: November 2015 I Bond Rates
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6057
November 2015 I Bond Rates
Fixed Rate = 0.10%
Inflation Rate = 0.77%
Composite Rate = 1.64%
https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/re ... dterms.htm
Inflation Rate = 0.77%
Composite Rate = 1.64%
https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/re ... dterms.htm
- Fri Oct 02, 2015 7:59 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: The value of physical gold
- Replies: 119
- Views: 38935
Re: The value of physical gold
^ This, well said MachineGhostMachineGhost wrote: Real assets don't gyrate; only the money it is measured against does.
- Thu Jun 04, 2015 12:21 pm
- Forum: Cash
- Topic: The End of Cash
- Replies: 17
- Views: 12507
Re: The End of Cash
How much "cash" do any of you actually use? 1) Lunch at work, but only because they don't take credit 2) Waffle house, just because cash is easier there 3) Cabs for an overall cash spend of probably ~$2k a year Outside of those, I carry it for emergencies that I encounter at about a frequ...
- Fri May 08, 2015 10:56 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Best iPhone Apps (or Android)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 26949
Re: Best iPhone Apps (or Android)
Attempt to list some that I don't think have been listed yet and that I use regularly iOS: Weatherunderground, blows other weather apps away Alienblue, for reddit Google voice, for my other phone number Great clips, silly, but the app check in saves a huge amount of time Sky guide, location and posi...
- Wed May 06, 2015 11:50 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: No where to hide
- Replies: 804
- Views: 301842
Re: No where to hide
Oh you mean the PP Koolaid...I see. I can't remember the exact quote, but Jack Bogle said the two highest correlated items to a good return are low costs and not changing your portfolio strategy all the time. So with that in mind, I don't think folks here are married to the PP, but I doubt there is...
- Tue May 05, 2015 11:12 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Packing for a trip, anything might happen
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7022
Re: Packing for a trip, anything might happend
4 kilos seems on the light side
- Tue May 05, 2015 11:39 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Forum Crash...
- Replies: 48
- Views: 20863
Re: Forum Crash...
Thanks for the revival, I was going through withdraw.
- Fri May 01, 2015 1:54 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: No where to hide
- Replies: 804
- Views: 301842
Re: No where to hide
To be fair, it's not as if rebalancing is unique to the PP. Boglehead folk rebalance as well as take advantage of tax loss harvesting by moving between different stock and bond funds. Div growth people "rebalance" their dividends into the entirety of their portfolio or buy new stocks. Eve...
- Fri May 01, 2015 1:31 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: No where to hide
- Replies: 804
- Views: 301842
Re: No where to hide
Portfolio envy, the bane of the Permanent Portfolio. Just because you are seeing stocks rise, folks are forgetting a fantastic attribute to the PP that makes me feel like I am a mad investment scientist. I always buy whatever asset is below 25% and then when it goes up, I feel like a genius gettin...
- Fri May 01, 2015 1:14 pm
- Forum: Cash
- Topic: New I Bond Rate - May 1, 2015
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11593
New I Bond Rate - May 1, 2015
Fixed Rate = 0.00%
Inflation Rate = -0.80%
Composite rate = 0.00%
Inflation Rate = -0.80%
Composite rate = 0.00%
- Wed Dec 31, 2014 12:09 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: What form of physical gold to buy?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11373
Re: What form of physical gold to buy?
Eagles (for local recognition) and Sovereigns (for global recognition and fractional gold) here
- Mon Nov 03, 2014 10:07 am
- Forum: Cash
- Topic: Series I Bonds: Buy before November 1st or wait?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 15307
Re: Series I Bonds: Buy before November 1st or wait?
I Bond Earnings Rate of 1.48% includes a Fixed Rate of 0.00%
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/news/pres ... atespr.htm
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/news/pres ... atespr.htm
- Tue Oct 28, 2014 4:56 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: A Soft Landing for US Debt?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 13075
Re: A Soft Landing for US Debt?
It seems to me that we are getting worked up about conceptual representations of wealth. We have created an artificial boogeyman called "debt" that reall only exists in our heads. This is much different from actual problems such as a shortage of water, energy, food etc. That boogeyman can...
- Mon Oct 27, 2014 2:04 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: IRS Seizes $33,000 from Small Business Owner
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2294
Re: IRS Seizes $33,000 from Small Business Owner
Reminds me a lot of this youtube:
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Civil Forfeiture (HBO)
http://youtu.be/3kEpZWGgJks?list=UU3XTz ... 0rQbuvCtTQ
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Civil Forfeiture (HBO)
http://youtu.be/3kEpZWGgJks?list=UU3XTz ... 0rQbuvCtTQ
- Sat Oct 18, 2014 5:15 pm
- Forum: Cash
- Topic: Physical Cash vs. TBills with no interest
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12540
Physical Cash vs. TBills with no interest
With TBills paying basically nothing or going negative, why even buy them? Does physical cash win right now? As of right now the only risk I see to cash on hand is theft, outside of that it is better in every way to digital money that pays nothing.
- Sat Oct 11, 2014 11:54 pm
- Forum: Bonds
- Topic: The Bond Dream Room
- Replies: 554
- Views: 364758
Re: The Bond Dream Room
Is the next question we start asking going to be are 1% 30 year rates in the cards?