My favorite drummer

Bond yields going up (so prices down).
According to one letter I read, it's strong economic growth, a heavy demand for mortgages and a surge in oil prices.

.. The original Pound dates back to the mid 700's, when it was a Saxon pound weight of silver. The state (King/Queen) had to pay real rates of return (interest = more gold) in order to borrow. .. Very interesting indeed. I wonder if in the future people will relate tales of Ye Olde Bitcoin and how ...

You could buy 23 gold coins at the current rate.

boglerdude wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2024 2:31 am Some things will brick if the battery gets way too low eg left sitting for months at 1%
..

Yeah, I read somewhere that it’s good to get electrons flowing through devices at least once a month.

Way before Snowden. Boris Yeltsin days.

Thanks!

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2024 4:49 pm I wanna be a whole coinnnneeerrrrrrr.

Are there any special benefits, comparable to trading an ounce of gold vs fractional or is it, as I suspect, just a fun social club (in-group)?

yankees60 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2024 7:22 am my Garmin watch

My first really great stock pick. Except I failed to get out in time.

His surname even sounds like “that’s the man.”

I usually sip at 40% and let it go to 70%. I think I learned that here , this forum. But more often than not I leave the house without my phone. That’s what I said, yup. No wonder you take so long to respond to messages sometimes. ;D 😂 It’s really hard to notice when there’s a message from Signal!

Yeah, man, I saw the part about 1500 rubles and didn’t read any further.
(I can’t read Russian for meaning, but I can read for sound. I lived in Moscow for a short spell).

According the mod logs, I’ve banned him 4 times including an IP ban. Didn’t seem to take at first. I think it’s quiet on the western front now.

Thanks to all who reported Robertabica spammer (spambot?) mentioned by Vinny
here viewtopic.php?p=254765#p254765
He came back and sent me a PM as well, so I had a chance to ban him.

He wasn’t there when I searched earlier, but he PM’ed me the same spam.
I’m creating a new thread
viewtopic.php?p=254771#p254771

No, and I do not see him in the member list

I usually sip at 40% and let it go to 70%. I think I learned that here, this forum.
But more often than not I leave the house without my phone. That’s what I said, yup.

For Smithers, who claims to be Canadian. https://youtu.be/auLBLk4ibAk?si=oOwPBb_8PyUQ8cKT Hope I didn’t post this before. (Actually, I hope i did) ♫ He knows changes aren’t permanent- but change the portfolio is! Have always loved the song. First time seeing the video. Thanks! Did you ever see thei...

… On the other hand, I increased my equity weighting towards emerging markets a couple days ago... and look at china/hong kong go! I’m off topic, but I don’t understand how Hong Kong is going to thrive. I feel like the mainland is going to stifle business there the same way it clips the wings of it...

welderwannabe wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2024 12:56 pm ..17% Gold (about 2/3 physical at a depository, other 1/3 in SGOL ETF)
17% Cash

I misread the 2/3 physical as being for cash for a moment and imagined you had rubberbanded bricks of the stuff

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 2:53 pm Is anyone doing wing Wednesday today?

I’m on board for future taco Tuesdays

I’ve been meaning to acknowledge your post above, boglerdude, but I had nothing to add and… there’s no Like button O0 I guess I could add that Jeremy Grantham indirectly referred to Milton Friedman* as a pychopath, but that’s because of his literal interpetation of M.F.’s quote. *(Was it Friedman? I...

9:25pm This debate is so very civil

Wow, this is the first time I was asked to ‘sign in to confirm (I’m) not a bot’ to play the clip above, although there was no way to sign in. Just a Learn More button that did nothing.
Boo.
Edit: if I keep tapping, it plays.

Always good to hear from Vil.
I thought BMW's and Mercedes were less expensive and less of a big deal in Europe. I might be out of date. I was told that in the very early 90's.