The closed end fund CEF looks like a steal at 9% discount to NAV. I bought some on Friday for my VP since I think gold and silver are both underpriced. Especially given the 9% discount, it seems incredible. I've been considering buying some physical silver (for fun and a little VP play) and been wat...

Anyone else find it FUNNY that the FED of all people did this study?? Wonder if they are concerned with how much money exists relative to underlying capital goods/services and knows we are DUE for hyperinflation if things don't settle down?

Several on here are followers of Early Retirement philosophy. I would like to retire in my early 40s and one of the big unknowns is healthcare. What I recently discovered is the Medicaid expansion that most republican governors failed to accept, that the democrats complained about really just remove...

Heres a topic I haven't seen much discussed on in one cohesive thread. Assuming we decide the PP is perfect as-is, without tweaking allocations or juicing returns with different product mixes, how does it make the most sense to hold each asset in the most secure way possible with the lowest cost. In...

I have finally caught up and listened to ALL of Mr Brown's podcast library on his investing series and he talked several times about the markets, specifically gold, being not possible to manipulate. In one particular story he mentioned working with a broker on the London exchange who claims they set...

I have been reading with great interest about GTU on these forums and I just don't get why it trades at such a discount (30% below NAV in 2009!!) and 8% below NAV today. I read about the proxy fight to establish rules to allow redemption. Which leads me to believe no redemption is possible. So basic...

Thanks for the links Rickb.. Gotta say I still agree with Day.  The current boards fees seem reasonable.    I'd be happy to replace a few perhaps but replace all of them?  All they have to do is maintain the trust, not build a rocket to the moon. Polar just seems really slimy, pretending to have my...

Are there any laws or regulations against carrying $7000 worth of gold coins in a carry-on bag on a domestic USA flight?  Would a person be wise to ask for a private TSA screening, or what?  Not me, but someone I know. This is pretty ridiculous. How is TSA going to know that you're going through wi...

I support reasonable common sense restrictions on how doctors practice medicine. LOOK at how many deaths happen each year caused directly by doctors!

For anyone who disagrees with my above post, look to New Jersey in recent years for "common sense" government intervention in gun owners lives when a teen posts a picture holding a hunting rifle on Facebook and gets multiple visits from the state department of children and families demandi...

I wonder how the liberals would feel is docs who were "islamaphobic" were asking their patients: -So what religion are you in? -Islam, eh? Have you thought about putting on a suicide vest and blowing up Christians in the name of Allah? -Oh well, don't be offended but Islam is the only reli...

I know about the $3000 carry forward losses and writing against job income and that's why I care so much about Tax Lost Harvesting! It's worth $1000 in tax savings a year against my employment income! Suppose I put that $1000 of saved taxes back into the PP for 30 years. What's the present value of ...

Don't understand how the government is saying we have 0% inflation. The CPI books are cooked. My rent has gone up every year. Property taxes keep going up. Food is up. Gas was down but is basically back up to where it was before it went down. Healthcare is WAYYY up (it doubled for me due to Obamacar...

On Bogleheads I read about TAX-LOST HARVESTING where you have your investments in a taxable account (say a SP500 mutual fund) and if the fund loses money, you SELL it, and immediately buy a different SP500 fund. The IRS says this is NOT a wash sale and you get an immediate tax write off. With the PP...

Thanks for the post, Moda! Question regarding ANY of these plans: Suppose your single, no children, no dependants, and don't expect to ever have any. I know things in life change but for purposes of this question let us assume there's a 0% chance of ever really needing a death payment to benefit som...

Not sure I understand.  Are you asking how would the PP perform in a scenario in which all four of its asset classes crash?  Poorly, I surmise.  ??? I can't see it happening all at the same time though.  Where would capital go?  Moon rocks?  Bitcoins?  Adult diapers? Maybe we ought to study Iceland...

Few misc points for you Moda: -If you don't hunt now, you won't be hunting if TSHTF. The equivalent would be someone saying "I've never taken any medical classes or anatomy/physiology, but if TSHTF, I have a first aid kit and I will become a doctor because people will need doctors." It won...

Is there a difference at all in safety between mutual funds and ETFS? My thoughts are as follows below: Mutual funds that are open end, always trade exactly at NAV, at the end of the closing day so your buying them for the correct price exactly. ETFS trade at premiums or discounts throughout the day...

Here's what I would do and have done in similar situations where doing a 401k rollover required me to liquidate: Perform the rollover/movement such that you don't move more than 25% of your portfolio at a time, if possible, and wherever you normally keep your cash, temporarily buy whatever asset you...

I forgot to add that people say GLD is bad because it's taxed as a collectible rather than long term capital gains. However, for a PP investor, this shouldn't matter because the only people investing in GLD in the PP are people like me who don't have enough taxable assets to buy gold coins and we're...

When reading the internet and researching the options for paper gold, GLD is frequently discouraged because the prospectus terminology is vague and implies the gold may be fake. I find it kind of ridiculous that an ETF with so many investors and so much money and momentum could have fake gold in the...

This isn't directly answering your question, but are you sure that it is a good idea to put almost everything in tax-deferred accounts? Have you done any forecasting to see where this will leave you tax-wise when you start to withdraw from those accounts? I've run the numbers and it's a huge benefi...

Yes, this is why on February first, I am liquidating all of my PP holdings and for the month of February, will replace them with shorts of each asset. For example, an ETF that shorts Gold, an ETF that shorts bonds, an ETF that shorts stocks, and instead of cash, I'll buy Euros. Then in March, after ...

I'm thinking of setting up an I-Bond ladder, modeled after CD ladders. I haven't heard this discussed anywhere else, but I'm sure someone else thought of it. The concept is that I buy $2500 of an I-Bond every 3 months. January, April, July, October. That's $10k per year which is the annual contribut...

With tax-exempt bonds, the interest rate is pushed down by the market because hi-net worth individuals are buying them, and those people are in the 39% tax bracket. In other words, for someone in the 39% tax bracket, a 1% taxable dividend = about the same as a 0.61% tax-free dividend because the 1% ...