Hi everybody, My wife is a citizen of Spain and has a brokerage account in Europe. When purchasing ETFs to implement the PP in this account, we can choose US-listed iShares ETFs or equivalent ETFs listed offshore (some in Ireland) and traded on foreign exchanges. All things being equal (assuming equ...

I was using Banc of America, which has been merged/migrated to Merrill Edge. If you can afford to keep $25k in linked accounts, they offer 30 free trades per month.

Apple updated iWork today, including the ability for Pages.app to export to the ePub format (native to iBooks). You may prefer this over PDF, though it requires importing to iBooks through iTunes.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/91582/books/DyingofMoney.zip

If anyone's interested in an indexed, nicely formatted PDF version of this book, that makes for great reading in the iBooks application on an iPad or iPhone, I've created one that you can download here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/91582/books/Dying-of-Money.pdf

Hi all, I'm a US citizen living in Europe, recently returned to the Permanent Portfolio, and thought I'd post some information and observations about investing in the PP (and a few general topics) from the perspective of a US citizen living abroad. First, some background — I'm forty'ish, live in Eur...