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by boglerdude
Sat Feb 08, 2025 10:22 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Harry Dent: ‘Crash of a Lifetime’ Coming in 2024
Replies: 30
Views: 113039

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

Global birth rates dropping as women have increasing access to contraception and education. People making a lot of noise about US immigration slowing this year. In 10 years with robots making cars and farming and building homes, what are people going to do. Most I know who were laid off or retired d...
by boglerdude
Sat Feb 08, 2025 1:35 am
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: New Here - What are folks investing in
Replies: 24
Views: 20553

Re: New Here - What are folks investing in

total global stock index
gold
the currency you spend in
long bonds from a very stable gov
by boglerdude
Sat Feb 08, 2025 1:32 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Harry Dent: ‘Crash of a Lifetime’ Coming in 2024
Replies: 30
Views: 113039

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

crash was 2007 when markets realized working age population peaked. China bailed us out a little, they bought up a lot of real estate, then they peaked in 2011 and their housing market kept running on air like wile coyote until 2019. then the epic bailout of 2020. question is what will cover the nex...
by boglerdude
Sat Feb 08, 2025 1:23 am
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: BTC in the PP
Replies: 399
Views: 253051

Re: BTC in the PP

Step 1 is buy manhattan real estate
by boglerdude
Sat Feb 08, 2025 12:21 am
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Study calls for US taxation of cryptocurrency
Replies: 18
Views: 8557

Re: Study calls for US taxation of cryptocurrency

> I've despaired over the rapid turnover in non-profits I've seen as a lot of institutional knowledge gets lost and plenty of re-inventing of the wheel. elaborate ty. You want skilled pilots and surgeons to practice as long as they can, but politicians simply serve the people. Theres no skill there ...
by boglerdude
Fri Feb 07, 2025 12:07 am
Forum: Gold
Topic: The GOLD scream room
Replies: 3834
Views: 2181596

Re: The GOLD scream room

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by boglerdude
Thu Feb 06, 2025 11:43 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
Replies: 2833
Views: 1782785

Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Abbrevi ... d_acronyms

^ not good enough, imho. Glad I weaned off of there before 2020, the purge mustve been insane.

Bough a little PFIX. But I might be making a mistake, maybe I should simply hold less EDV.
by boglerdude
Thu Feb 06, 2025 11:36 pm
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Study calls for US taxation of cryptocurrency
Replies: 18
Views: 8557

Re: Study calls for US taxation of cryptocurrency

Greeny praised the gold standard after leaving office too. He was paid millions to troll and I probly would've too. ergo term limits on all gov positions as power always corrupts. Even visionaries like Lee Kuan Yew pass power to their mediocre children. Trudeau was in power a decade and Greenspan ne...
by boglerdude
Tue Feb 04, 2025 2:36 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Casey Burgat on We Hold These "Truths"
Replies: 11
Views: 4296

Re: Casey Burgat on We Hold These "Truths"

No term limits and shameless lobbying is a good definition of dictatorship.

Rightoids in shambles https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... ing-office

Leftoids in shambles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrYxMsWmrjk
by boglerdude
Mon Feb 03, 2025 4:15 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Yuval Levin on President Trump's Second Term
Replies: 3
Views: 1365

Re: Yuval Levin on President Trump's Second Term

well vinny ur question about tariffs contributing to depression/war is being answered, communists in canada are banging war drums cute watching them call their own conservatives traitors, when the socialists had the country locked down for 3 years with curfews. You could not leave your house after 5...
by boglerdude
Sun Feb 02, 2025 8:19 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
Replies: 2833
Views: 1782785

Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us

dont forget masks and boosters for healthy children. but anti-lock breaks have saved me from 2 accidents. before i had them i slid into a gorge. For some substance, if you're thinking about water filters talk to these guys https://www.purewaterproducts.com/black-and-white-ro Bot activity on Amazon r...
by boglerdude
Thu Jan 30, 2025 1:42 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: How the money system actually works
Replies: 2
Views: 620

Re: How the money system actually works

(Skips barter and starts after the ad) https://youtu.be/RygikaUoRU4?t=301 Fractional lending isnt a problem unless people dont know its being done. But you shouldnt get interest on money you can get back instantly. MMT just points out that recently the Fed is buying bonds "directly" throug...
by boglerdude
Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:53 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: US Citizen / Military Vet detained in ICE raid
Replies: 47
Views: 7010

Re: US Citizen / Military Vet detained in ICE raid

> “nazi” loses all meaning

Change your mind about the convoy?

edit1 for content https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v97F2YhLrY
by boglerdude
Tue Jan 28, 2025 12:08 am
Forum: Bonds
Topic: The Bond Dream Room
Replies: 567
Views: 439343

Re: The Bond Dream Room

With retail using leverage and everyone insuring everyone else's portfolio we'll get another AIG type bust n'bailout. wont have much time to buy the dip tho
by boglerdude
Tue Jan 28, 2025 12:02 am
Forum: Stocks
Topic: Stock scream room
Replies: 1517
Views: 801061

Re: Stock scream room

Intelligence agency tools. Story about FBIs largest sting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY-T2EPU1_g https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2023/03/03/a-socal-cocaine-kingpin-will-do-way-less-time-behind-bars-than-anticipated/ https://www.wired.com/story/inside-biggest-fbi-sting-operation-in-history/
by boglerdude
Mon Jan 27, 2025 1:29 am
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #457
Replies: 8
Views: 5310

Re: Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #457

"A society that puts equality—in the sense of equality of outcome—ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote thei...
by boglerdude
Mon Jan 27, 2025 1:16 am
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: the accelerated permanent portfolio
Replies: 19
Views: 3761

Re: the accelerated permanent portfolio

Whats an easy cartoonish way to explain what PFIX does, in effect Instead of me loaning 10,000 to the government for 30 years for 5%, someone(?) is loaning me 10,000 for 30 years at 5%? So when rates go up I can park that money at a higher rate? But the fund also owns some treasuries and pays a smal...
by boglerdude
Thu Jan 23, 2025 12:04 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Ross Ulbricht pardoned
Replies: 16
Views: 3192

Re: Ross Ulbricht pardoned

https://www.wired.com/2016/02/corrupt-s ... ee-the-us/

Well, its good to see Libertarians having influence
by boglerdude
Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:37 pm
Forum: Gold
Topic: Trump Tariff Risks Are Fueling a Chaotic Hunt for Gold in London
Replies: 13
Views: 3769

Re: Trump Tariff Risks Are Fueling a Chaotic Hunt for Gold in London

Dust bowl and panic. Stock bubble burst at the end of roaring 20s. Bank runs and hoarding. Fed couldnt step in to extend credit to sound business because the dollar was gold backed. OTOH when the Fed can simply print you get other problems. We should get rid of interest rates on fully liquid account...
by boglerdude
Tue Jan 21, 2025 2:42 am
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Russell Napier - Global Reshoring Existential Threat to US PP?
Replies: 4
Views: 1258

Re: Russell Napier - Global Reshoring Existential Threat to US PP?

Ambition is the scarce resource. When techies flee to Germany to start companies ill invest there. Or maybe they'd have another pipeline accident 🤔
by boglerdude
Tue Jan 21, 2025 2:34 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: We should all write to our members of Congress and demand tax reforms
Replies: 48
Views: 15801

Re: We should all write to our members of Congress and demand tax reforms

Rewatch Crocodile Dundee and compare it to Australia in 2020. With "toxically" masculine Trump the pendulum is swinging back a bit.

Also most of the MAGA crowd want jobs reshored.
by boglerdude
Tue Jan 21, 2025 1:50 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Grilling Fauci
Replies: 38
Views: 19869

Re: Grilling Fauci

Gain of function never stopped and will never stop. Because foreign adversaries will not stop. Same for AI killbots. Not a big deal for respiratory viruses because the sicker they make the host, the less they can spread. We've been co-evolving with them for millennia. Fauci's pardon is clever, it re...
by boglerdude
Tue Jan 21, 2025 1:38 am
Forum: Bonds
Topic: Moving up to 4.9%
Replies: 120
Views: 17301

Re: Moving up to 4.9%

Thats why you dont want a centralized politburo planning the economy. Forcing price controls to hide inflation. Extending credit and grants to their friends industries. OTOH China had their economic miracle. But we saw how they handled the housing bust in 2020. They found a neat way to stop bank run...
by boglerdude
Sun Jan 19, 2025 8:26 pm
Forum: Bonds
Topic: Moving up to 4.9%
Replies: 120
Views: 17301

Re: Moving up to 4.9%

Fed could buy directly from treasury to fund deficit. eg money supply +10%/year. If they step out of private markets eg stop buying mortgages and corporate bonds, a free market would want ~13% rates. You'd get 10% CPI and businesses might fail with those rates. Japan is rich and creates make-work jo...
by boglerdude
Sat Jan 18, 2025 9:43 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: We should all write to our members of Congress and demand tax reforms
Replies: 48
Views: 15801

Re: We should all write to our members of Congress and demand tax reforms

Everyone has their own definition, its a war of language. But "protectionist" tariffs and lower taxes has overlap with MAGA. Taxes on tips would not generate a lot income, especially after compliance/enforcement costs.