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“ The world’s largest hedge fund sees gold rising 30% to $2,000: ‘There is so much boiling conflict’”

The Smith Variation of the PP does indeed have credit risk in the fixed income side. A few thoughts. First, that credit risk is not totally uncompensated risk. In principle, you do have higher expected returns from corporates, so it's not a total negative. The credit risk is basically the trade-off ...

Hi Toby, 1. Went for the 50% intermediate bonds as there is an ETF available -primarily for ease of portfolio management. No reason you could not use 25% GSBU20 and 25% GSBE47. https://www.asx.com.au/products/bonds/list-of-agbs.htm I personally minimise the amount of cash held due to the uncertaint...

P.S. if anyone needs firewood, I clearly have some to spare.

daulstow, do keep us updated on this! I've been curious about the whole eGPU thing for a while.

My current MacBook uses intel graphics. Boourns.

Our neighbours' tree decided to park itself in our backyard. The poor fence!
I'm starting understand now why Saruman had such a tiff with all of those trees in Two Towers.

I'm actually really loving the "terrible" weather we're having.

I've gotten SO much done at home the past couple days. I've made a ton of progress in my math homework, and a ton of coding stuff. Not so bad!

You should send a PM to forum member Hal. He's a PP adherent residing in Australia. He should have some good insights for you. The only thing I can tell you with reasonable confidence is that an Aussie investor needs international diversification much more than our U.S. counterparts. Same goes for u...

I had to think about "least non-libertarian." I take it you couldn't bring yourself to say "most libertarian." :) I consider “libertarian” to be an absolute. If you abide by the NAP then you are one; otherwise not. But there are degrees of violation and he is the least bad President in my lifetime....

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Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:58 pm

It's 76 degrees here right now.

Speak Canadian, please.

A picture from our neighbourhood! I'm nice and cozy inside with my coding and coffee.

I've wondered this myself. I haven't seen a feature such as this with any of the brokerage services I've used. The best I've found is either opening a different account or just using different securities. Like, if I'm using the PP, I can approximate TSM using 3 or 4 different low cost funds here in ...