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by dualstow
Tue Feb 11, 2025 7:52 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Replies: 1213
Views: 1250281

Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

He doesn’t have any formal say but he has a lot of “do.”
by dualstow
Mon Feb 10, 2025 2:00 pm
Forum: Stocks
Topic: Stock Picking in the PP
Replies: 36
Views: 32034

Re: Stock Picking in the PP

old thread / bumped by a potential bot (liquidity talk in stock picking??).
We’ll soon see
by dualstow
Mon Feb 10, 2025 7:56 am
Forum: Gold
Topic: The GOLD scream room
Replies: 3835
Views: 2204546

Re: The GOLD scream room

2900+
by dualstow
Sun Feb 09, 2025 6:28 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
Replies: 2833
Views: 1785509

Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us

Vin, I see you’re reading ‘The Power Broker.’

I saw Robert Caro in person, giving a talk at my local library a few years ago. Awesome.
by dualstow
Sun Feb 09, 2025 4:57 pm
Forum: Gold
Topic: The GOLD scream room
Replies: 3835
Views: 2204546

Re: The GOLD scream room

yankees60 wrote: Sun Feb 09, 2025 3:48 pm What happens to my Treasury holdings that come due on March 14th and there is a default on the debt? They never get repaid?
Report back to us on March 14-15.
by dualstow
Sun Feb 09, 2025 8:44 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Harry Dent: ‘Crash of a Lifetime’ Coming in 2024
Replies: 32
Views: 116308

Re: Harry Dent: ‘Crash of a Lifetime’ Coming in 2024

Global birth rates dropping as women have increasing access to contraception and education. This lead sentence could have been written for how many decades now? It’s so much more than that, though. In China, young couples often decide that it doesn’t make sense to have kids when they can barely tak...
by dualstow
Sat Feb 08, 2025 11:02 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: YouTube Junkie
Replies: 1327
Views: 809091

Re: YouTube Junkie

I know Billy Strings. He had a concert at that Texas venue they show on public TV.
Austin City Limits I think.
by dualstow
Sat Feb 08, 2025 2:34 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: YouTube Junkie
Replies: 1327
Views: 809091

Re: YouTube Junkie

yankees60 wrote: Sat Feb 08, 2025 1:21 pm On my third listen of Frank Zappa's live version of this classic song:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=yOADUlfh2qY
Stairway To Heaven
Hah! I had no idea.
by dualstow
Sat Feb 08, 2025 10:11 am
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Marc De Messel Portfolio
Replies: 26
Views: 18690

Re: Marc De Messel Portfolio

Ahahah Why it was so difficult to have like 5% of capital in bitcoin? Why we are so afraid? 😳 PP followers may be averse to risk … ? Risk averse, for sure, frugal. I don’t want to be boring, but think of it this way: Pascal’s Wager, if I have it right, is the premise that you should believe in God ...
by dualstow
Sat Feb 08, 2025 10:02 am
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: New Here - What are folks investing in
Replies: 24
Views: 23579

Re: New Here - What are folks investing in

burley wrote: Mon Aug 26, 2024 2:40 pm Hi Everyone,

Just a side note — I was surfing wikipedia yesterday, starting at SMS and eventually I ended up at Bell Labs and its once upon a time operating system, Plan 9.

Lo and behold, the mascot, Glenda, is Burley’s avatar! 👍
by dualstow
Sat Feb 08, 2025 9:57 am
Forum: Gold
Topic: The GOLD scream room
Replies: 3835
Views: 2204546

Re: The GOLD scream room

😂
by dualstow
Fri Feb 07, 2025 3:14 pm
Forum: Gold
Topic: The GOLD scream room
Replies: 3835
Views: 2204546

Re: The GOLD scream room

Btw, it’s an old thread, but ‘What is Going on with Gold Price’ at b’heads recently got a bump, and seajay’s year-end/2022 response to Charles Joseph is, well, gold.
by dualstow
Fri Feb 07, 2025 2:51 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: YouTube Junkie
Replies: 1327
Views: 809091

Re: YouTube Junkie

Oh, I like them a lot. I think I must have discovered them via satellite radio, which I don’t have anymore.
Fun band to listen to.
Not that it matters, but I thought the woman was Thai for the longest time because of the band name. She’s not.
by dualstow
Fri Feb 07, 2025 2:40 pm
Forum: Gold
Topic: The GOLD scream room
Replies: 3835
Views: 2204546

Re: The GOLD scream room

While the DOW is down 1% right now (3:00PM EST), gold is holding fast at 2860$/oz. That leads to the question of ... what is mathjak doing in reaction to that??!! Perhaps selling gold? I don’t think I would be very good at day-trading gold, myself, but I am very happy that CraigR & Harry Browne...
by dualstow
Fri Feb 07, 2025 2:01 pm
Forum: Gold
Topic: The GOLD scream room
Replies: 3835
Views: 2204546

Re: The GOLD scream room

While the DOW is down 1% right now (3:00PM EST),
gold is holding fast at 2860$/oz.
by dualstow
Fri Feb 07, 2025 12:39 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
Replies: 2833
Views: 1785509

Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us

^ EDV is very long-term treasury bonds including zero-coupon/STRIPS
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/EDV/
I've held it for years at a loss.

I think PFIX is one of those funds that mathjak was hawking recently ^
by dualstow
Fri Feb 07, 2025 12:38 pm
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: BTC in the PP
Replies: 399
Views: 254897

Re: BTC in the PP

Smith1776 wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2025 11:49 am It's for my graduate degree at University of London! I decided not to go the Harvard route for my degree, as it would have been 3x more expensive. Untenable :(
I think what Smithers is trying to tell you is that he got accepted into Harvard
whoo-hoo!
by dualstow
Fri Feb 07, 2025 12:35 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: YouTube Junkie
Replies: 1327
Views: 809091

Re: YouTube Junkie

by dualstow
Fri Feb 07, 2025 9:31 am
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: BTC in the PP
Replies: 399
Views: 254897

Re: BTC in the PP

Smith1776 wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2025 9:18 am
London <snip>
to attend convocation … and and stay as a traveller
Oh, I thought you were going to actually be residing there.
by dualstow
Fri Feb 07, 2025 8:05 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Harry Dent: ‘Crash of a Lifetime’ Coming in 2024
Replies: 32
Views: 116308

Re: Harry Dent: ‘Crash of a Lifetime’ Coming in 2024

ochotona wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2025 7:55 am Hairy Dent. He's still around?
Still around, but that’s his hirsute cousin.
by dualstow
Fri Feb 07, 2025 6:42 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
Replies: 2833
Views: 1785509

Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us

I saw Vinny over there, looking for a thread on tariffs. It’s been locked at least 7 times.
by dualstow
Fri Feb 07, 2025 6:02 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Harry Dent: ‘Crash of a Lifetime’ Coming in 2024
Replies: 32
Views: 116308

Re: Harry Dent: ‘Crash of a Lifetime’ Coming in 2024

^ Hahah! Thank you for posting that ^
by dualstow
Thu Feb 06, 2025 6:02 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
Replies: 2833
Views: 1785509

Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us

Your daily b’heads initialism: SUBs are sign-up bonuses in the context of credit card rewards.
That’s like, barely shorter than bonus.
by dualstow
Tue Feb 04, 2025 10:51 am
Forum: Gold
Topic: The GOLD scream room
Replies: 3835
Views: 2204546

Re: The GOLD scream room

… Basically the way the BRICS are going https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&sl=13pbHbXzxIXq7jLCTp45mT ... no need for US stocks/businesses, US Treasury's, holding/trading multiple currencies in trade weighted proportions with a BRICS-PAY alternative system to SWIFT Trump'...
by dualstow
Tue Feb 04, 2025 6:33 am
Forum: Stocks
Topic: Stock scream room
Replies: 1517
Views: 802366

Re: Stock scream room

Trumperfly Effect O0