dichotomy...controversial....malcontent Yes, these keywords indicate that the pp strategy is being viewed from the Boglehead lens. It's not a bad entry at all, although it doesn't really explain why gold or long bonds are there. Just how to modify, minimize, or get around them. :-) The essential go...

Hi all: More a slide demonstration than a complex working paper, here is the citation: Erb, Claude B., A Golden Bet: Gold Mining Equities versus Gold (February 17, 2014). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2397540 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2397540 Abstract:    If there is a “long-ru...

Hi: Taylor Larimore, a co-author, of the Bogleheads Guide To Investing , has penned a "Gems" post on Craig and J.L.'s new book, The Permanent Portfolio: Harry Browne's Long-Term Investment Strategy . The gems are selected as a quick way to learn many of the best ideas from the best authors...

Hi: Those of you who might want to use Vanguard as one of your financial shops for implementing the Permanent Portfolio strategy might find the following to be of interest. First, Vanguard enlisted me for a market survey recently. The survey topic involved the communications Vanguard might employ re...

Thanks, I clarified that language: http://earlyretirementextreme.com/wiki/index.php?title=Permanent_Portfolio&action=historysubmit&diff=852&oldid=851 Please let me know if you have any more feedback! Hi Kevin: I made one additional, small wordsmithing edit. In the bonds and deflation se...

barry, thanks for the interest and for making those changes. Sorry for not responding earlier, I was swamped with a deadline at my day job for the last few days. You are correct, ERE's mediaWiki installation has few if any extensions running. I see you made some changes. Does the page now look how ...

Hi: We have added the new book, as well as the authors, to our wiki over at bogleheads. Here are the links to pages which include these references: Craig Rowland - Bogleheads J. M. Lawson - Bogleheads Category:Bogleheads Authors - Bogleheads Books: Recommendations and Reviews - Bogleheads In additio...

Hi KevinW: The ERE mediawiki package does not appear to have the reference notation loaded into the software package.  I did emend the ==See also== section, which is customarily used in wiki markup as designating internal wiki links to the ==External links== section, which is customarily used in des...

Jacob at the Early Retirement Extreme (ERE) website, which overlaps somewhat with this one, created a wiki.  I went ahead and created a page about the PP there: http://earlyretirementextreme.com/wiki/index.php?title=Permanent_Portfolio I welcome anyone who's interested in documenting the PP in wiki...

Craig and Medium Tex:

Please note that I have sketched in entries for both of you on the Bogleheads wiki:

Craig Rowland - Bogleheads
J. M. Lawson - Bogleheads

regards,

Erb, Claude B. and Harvey, Campbell R., The Golden Dilemma (June 7, 2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2078535 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2078535 Abstract: Gold objects have existed for thousands of years but gold has only been an actively traded object since 1975. Gold has of...

Hi all:

I posted the announcement of the new book on the Bogleheads Forum: http://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtop ... 10&t=88386.

regards,

Hi: Lady Geek sends along the following: To be clear, I just acted as a consultant with the Financial Webring Forum site administrator. Both the Financial Webring Forum wiki, "finiki" (love that name  :) ), and the Bogleheads' wiki are running MediaWiki . The look-n-feel of the Bogleheads'...

Hi: I have pm'd Lady Geek, our BH wiki's technically gifted wiki administrator regarding your interest in creating a wiki. For those of you who are not familiar with our BH experience, our forum's wiki was partially accidental . In addition, my offer to our Canadian cousins over at the Webring to se...

Hi: The November/December 2010 edition of the   Journal of Indexes has an article on strategic investing in Gold. Rediscovering Gold As An Asset Class Conclusion Gold is first and foremost a consistent portfolio diversifier. Moreover, we find that gold effectively helps manage risk in a portfolio, n...