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Jack Jones

Xan: the best forum steward on the internet! I'm glad you think so! I fear I've disappointed many of you on this private message thing, though. There isn't much that I could do to improve the situation, I don't think. Not me. The current setup is how I expected it to work. Thanks for running the fo...

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Apparently a few states have made attempts to fix this, but after initial enthusiasm, the bills stall out.

Mr. Guggenheim seemed rather untrustworthy in this proceeding.

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Some people out there still rocking the @aol.com address.

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Subscribed. Thanks!

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Thoreau wrote:Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.

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paul merriman has some excellent portfolios for every risk level . https://www.paulmerriman.com/best-in-class-etf-recommendations-2025 https://lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/a941a5d4-0929-45ea-b22e-3bb82dc334ff/page/99wxC?s=hqmha3-AK5k Hi 👋🏻 I want to create myself Which one ? ☝️ You can't outso...

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Maybe you're right, Vinny. Also I thought one of the worst things about a potential Harris presidency was that she wanted to do price controls. Now suddenly Trump is not only for price controls (at least for credit card interest), but he's for government ownership of companies. Isn't that straight-...

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Good lord, what has the ipad OS update done to my keyboard? (Version 26.2) All my iPads are so old that it's been many, many years since any of them were able to get any form of update. Better not advertise that you have very hackable out of date hardware and software. Sure hope you aren’t keeping ...

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Hey everyone! 👋 Following up on my previous post, I’m curious about a PP-style portfolio with a 33-33-33% allocation (equities 🟢 / bonds 🔵 / gold 🟠). I’m trying to understand: How would the overall risk change compared to a more traditional allocation? ⚖️ What kind of impact on performance/returns ...

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dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Dec 26, 2025 9:06 pm I hope Ad Orientem is alive and watching it

Yeah it's kind of sad to not know what happened to our characters of the past.

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I'm a thumbs down on this tweet. The problem w/ interventionist policy is you have to trust the interventionist. Who will watch the watchmen? It seems like there are lies behind most interventions and the military industrial complex is biased towards interventions. Certainly congress should be votin...

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HODL only makes sense as an investing strategy for income producing assets. If you never sell non-income producing assets, you never make any money. the dividend doesn’t mean you made money . it means you made withdrawals of your own money . dividend payers have paid dividends out right in to the b...

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It's response to me: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/i-find-this-to-be-an-overly-wo-PPIdNZ3wQSWtx4RiSkF8_w#0 Excellent question — that passage is from Leo Tolstoy, and your instincts are right. It’s characteristically dense and overextended. He uses a long allegory (the swarm of bees) to make a fa...

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Jumping in on this older post because I’m curious how others think about “chip-like” mental accounting today. Do you find it helps you stay balanced, or does it push you into taking risks you wouldn’t take otherwise? I’ve been thinking about how labeling buckets of money affects my choices, even wh...

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HODL only makes sense as an investing strategy for income producing assets. If you never sell non-income producing assets, you never make any money.

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dualstow wrote: ↑Sun Jan 04, 2026 5:50 am I’d forgotten about this thread.

Not voting- doesn’t that only work if you can convince a significant majority not to?
Otherwise, it’s just denying yourself the choice while everyone else takes advantage.

See Tolstoy quote earlier in thread.

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Voting is a suggestion box for slaves and makes you complicit with whatever the government does. It's a humiliation ritual. If you vote you're saying this system of selecting leaders is valid and therefore the "will of the people" is valid and executed by the gov't. If no one voted the go...

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I Shrugged wrote: ↑Fri Jan 02, 2026 6:38 am I voted Cash.

Me too, however I have not put my money where my mouth is.

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Fama: A global market portfolio is kind of a risky venture because the problem is that countries go to war with one another. We thought we were past that, but now we’re finding out we aren’t. And wartime is subject to expropriation risks. So in other words, each side expropriates the investors of t...

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This looks interesting. I will take a closer look. Thanks for sharing.

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See poll.

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I love the forum format because there is no infinite scrolling.

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I agree. It's dead to me. If you want digital gold, buy GLD. If you want a cryptocurrency, try Monero.

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I listened for awhile. I enjoyed the way she sings.

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dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Nov 24, 2025 9:47 am Some think an income fund is inferior to total return funds,
but you know what they say about, ahem, a bird in the hand.

Personally, I prefer in the bush.

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