Interesting. This reminds me of an essay by… I can’t remember the name. It’s a website run by a very smart guy who uses a king from a deck of cards as the logo. You’ve probably read something by him. I’ll find it eventually and edit it in here. EDIT: Found it, or somewhat ironically, AI found it. Al...

P.S. This old thread was an interesting read through. Happy ending, too

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Smith1776 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 11, 2026 9:43 am Alan Greenspan turns 100-years old next month. Wow!

But is he still alive?

It’s probably just a headline.
Vinny tends to paste those without making it explicit that someone else wrote it.
Still, there is a link (which I have not clicked).

Thank you, CJ

I thought the whole urine in jars thing was just a Vinny quirk. But Google Gemini confirms it's a great way to tend to your plants and garden. It comes from the frugal mindset. Why waste / throw out what has value. I feel cheated when I'm out and don't get to capture it! Or restated, stop pissing a...

Dieter wrote: ↑Thu Feb 05, 2026 7:58 pm …
A good day to be in LTT

(which I'm not)

I haven’t looked yet. Still rooting for long bonds, despite the safe-haven status doubts.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 05, 2026 9:24 am I was definitely in that camp.

Fortunately dualstow talked some sense into me before the big drop and I went back to diversified investing.

Thank you, but I also talked sense into Greg when he was 4% in Tesla. Probably could’ve been rich

I don't think I saw this until today.
Yikes. Not good.

Tactical Assault Cat

I thought he asserted that the price of gold cannot be manipulated, even though everyone always decries manipulation by one entity or another.

yankees60 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 03, 2026 2:15 pm Did Harry Browne ever discuss this? I do not believe I have either read or heard this content anywhere else

Did Harry Browne ever discuss which part?

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Jan 26, 2026 9:04 am the ipad OS update woes continue.
<snip>

Didn’t realize there was such an easy fix!

Settings/ Multitasking & Gestures/ Full Screen Apps.
No more floating windows!

I do like long bonds less than I did when I was younger. Even so, “simplifying” by removing them seems like simplifying one’s hand by lopping the thumb off.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 30, 2026 10:13 am Are you guys planning any trips/travel this year?

China. Bit of medical tourism (nothing serious, just testing). And a bit of regular tourism. Trying to iron out the dates right now, actually.

yankees60 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 30, 2026 10:49 am I am forgetting who Skyler was. Was that his wife?

Skyler is that spider that lives in the barn near Walter’s residence. Remember? The kid (Walt jr, aka Flynn) wanted to capture the spider and keep her in a box, but Walt explained that she should be free.

I see mathjak covered it elsewhere, but damn. Down over 1/4 !

Sure does!

Back to good ol' Breaking Bad memes. O0 bb meme.jpg I never understood the hate for Skyler. When the show was still putting out new episodes, Vince Gilligan even tried to shield actress Anna Gunn(sp?) from social media. I thought she was great, but maybe they did write a lot of angry lines for her....

{ Meta-Whatsapp lawsuit } I pretty much always assumed that they could, regardless of whatever they said in public. On the other hand: WhatsApp Lawsuit Draws Skepticism From Cryptographers, Privacy Lawyers A proposed class action accusing Meta of accessing WhatsApp messages is drawing early skeptici...

(from the Gold Scream thread) Bananas and rice needs to achieve meme status. If it hasn't already. I think it happened rather quickly but now that she’s been arrested, it’s really taking off. Edit: A comment suggested that the arrest was Jan 14th , and nothing came of it. I came back here to edit, b...

Nice!

Ugly_Bird wrote: ↑Wed Jan 28, 2026 9:37 am

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Jan 28, 2026 6:45 am After 5K, we’re already a quarter of the way to $6,000.

I think it was Harry who mentioned that if one rebalance from gold happened the second can follow quite quickly.

Sounds familiar!

Xan is awesome.
I’m just an occasional spam squasher.
I should say a belated thank you l82start for letting me join when another person was needed.