There is intelligent speculation as there is intelligent investing. But there are many ways in which speculation may be unintelligent. Of these the foremost are: speculating when you think you are investing speculating seriously instead of as a pastime, when you lack proper knowledge and skill for ...

Anyone have anything to say about the FBI warning against Android-to-Apple and Apple-to-Android communications? Have you successfully gotten Grandma onto Threema? Your sister onto Signal? 1) I don't think I've ever told you, Dualstow, this ... but it's not been infrequent that the first time I've b...

Two more to lighten your load. ;-) * The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence until you have to cut it. * Remember, misery loves company but it hates competition.  Hope everyone is having an absolutely marvelous day. Made better when you provide us such humorous items. Thanks!

I had both Fox News and MSNBC on for many hours today up until 6 PM but no news since. Has {the UnitedHealth CEO shooter } been caught yet? I'm amazed that he still had not with the emergence of the clear face picture of him plus the others. I know we’re living in the age of instant gratification b...

https://money.com/bitcoin-price-100k-milestone/?encoded_id=MOe4l&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=2024-12-05%20%7C%20Daily%20Money%20(Preserve%20Gold)&utm_campaign=daily_money Bitcoin Just Hit $100K. Is a Crypto Sell-Off Coming Next? By: Jordan Chussler Editor: Juli...

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 8:01 pm

I had both Fox News and MSNBC on for many hours today up until 6 PM but no news since. Has he been caught yet? I'm amazed that he still had not with the emergence of the clear face picture of him plus the others.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 4:04 pm Back to 99k. Party’s over!

One word:

GameStop!!!!!

https://money.com/banks-expect-gold-bull-market-continue-in-2025/?encoded_id=MOe4l&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=2024-12-04%20%7C%20Daily%20Money%20(Student%20Loan%20Refi)&utm_campaign=daily_money Most Banks Expect Gold’s Bull Run to Carry into 2025 By: Marc Gube...

Don't get your meat where you earn your bread. First time I am seeing this one. Original to you? No. I don’t remember where I first heard it. 😱 A Bing search reveals several references to it. Before reading one of them I could not fathom what it meant. https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/don%27t+g...

As of the last hour I am now an official active member of Bluesky after discovering that my favorite New York Yankees fan person has essentially fled X and is now seemingly exclusively on Bluesky as of 17 days ago. From nothing I now have 9 followers and am following 172. That contrasts with my X s...

Don't get your meat where you earn your bread. First time I am seeing this one. Original to you? No. I don’t remember where I first heard it. 😱 A Bing search reveals several references to it. Before reading one of them I could not fathom what it meant. https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/don%27t+g...

Don't get your meat where you earn your bread. Hmm, that's a new one for me. Interesting. I heard something on 'Sopranos' which I think is very similar, but it's not really family-friendly enough to post. O0 - - - I just got a new PC. I am one of those rare birds that bought a PC after having Mac f...

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2024 5:48 am Don't get your meat where you earn your bread.

First time I am seeing this one. Original to you?

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2024 7:19 am You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

That is a timeless one.

However, am I remembering using apple cider vinegar to catch fruit flies?

There must be countless examples of this- “even a broken clock is right twice a day” Most people use digital, and a fair subset of those are used to self-correcting cable boxes, computers and cellphones and not much else for telling time. “Just under the wire” “burning the candle at both ends” or “...

from the main bitcoin thread; Don't mean to sound like a broken record , but I really recommend those Michael Saylor podcasts/interviews/speeches. He's the best statesman for Bitcoin in the whole world IMO. "Don't mean to sound like a broken record" When will that cliche ever be updated /...

Don't mean to sound like a broken record , but I really recommend those Michael Saylor podcasts/interviews/speeches. He's the best statesman for Bitcoin in the whole world IMO. "Don't mean to sound like a broken record" When will that cliche ever be updated / replaced? When is the last ti...

The funny thing about these diversified portfolios I've been playing with all these years, whether it be the PP, GB, All Seasons etc., they all would have been demolished by anything that had even a modest allocation to BTC. I really think it deserves a place in these strategies. For how many years...

... the Fed has more legal power to print than when the PP was concocted. Im treating long bonds like gold, as insurance. You want most of your wealth in real assets that do work ie they are worth 100,000 widgets and they produce 1,000 widgets per month. So, a business or rental property. Basically...

But because the Fed doesnt offer savers a real return on bonds, it is possible for too many people to blindly throw all their savings into VTSMX Hey now. When Pointed Stick put everything into equities, I doubt it was done blindly Yes. Mr. Pointed Stick would never do anything blindly. Conversely, ...

I haven't read it yet. But definitely will! I wonder if his conclusion will be the same as it always has been in his books: buy gold. When his 2021 book came out I did heavy excerpting of it here. Here was the chapter where he gave his investing recommendations. https://www.gyroscopicinvesting.com/...

Xan wrote: ↑Sat Nov 30, 2024 9:13 am Your house dropped 30% of its value between 2018 and 2022? I would think that's a very rare situation.

My Zillow graph for the last 10 years. It was not precisely between 2018 and 2022. It was the two months I chose for each of those two years.

Was there any time period when one held TIPS were held to maturity that you did not get what was promised? A rate of return plus the inflation during that period? Yes, the entire time. The 'inflation' metric the government has invented and constantly changes, with some changes major, does not measu...

Jim Rickards has recently come out with yet another book.



MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

The salient questions here are:

1) Has Smith1776 yet bought it?

2) If so, has he yet read it?