I wonder what it would take for Craig to accept Bitcoin as a potential PP component? Not to put words in his mouth, but he had expressed concern about how the governments can outlaw it if they want, or at least try to. It would seem that it would take a lot for it to become a real pp asset, then. T...

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-06-04/anatomy-of-a-smear-fauci-faces-the-house-gops-clown-show-about-covid Column: Anatomy of a smear — Fauci faces the House GOP’s clown show about COVID Here’s what we know about Dr. Anthony S. Fauci: As a staff member at the National Institutes of Heal...

I know who I will be voting for President. Dean Phillips is so far beyond any present (or recently dropped out) presidential candidate. I cannot believe that someone of his quality is actually running. The two major parties should be ashamed of themselves for each having frontrunners so unworthy of...

One thing about Texas... most of the knowledge workers are NOT from Texas, even in the oilpatch. The modern Oil & Gas industry is very high tech. At least half of us immigrated to Texas for money and jobs. Texas does a pretty bad job of educating its native sons and daughters when you get right...

https://www.usfunds.com/resource/centra ... r-in-2023/


This is after record purchases in 2022. Are there any reasons to explain these purchases besides them knowing something we don’t know?

I have no regrets going all in on the PP in late 2010 and sticking with it since then. It has had a modest CAGR of 5.0% over that 13-year period, with a max negative return of -11.9% in 2022. It has allowed me to mostly shrug off market turmoil and sleep soundly as I focus on working and accumulati...

Switching gears, surely if one believes American exceptionalism is coming to an end there are any number of portfolios one could choose to hedge against it. Holding only globally-diversified stocks, market cap weighted (e.g. a blend of 60:40 VTI:VEU or simple the all-world ETF VT) plus an appropria...

2. What did Disney have to gain by doing this? They are probably not going to gain any new customers with their stance but almost certain to lose some. Therefore, they should be admired for taking a stand, something that almost all other businesses / corporations will never do. I can well understan...

Switching gears, surely if one believes American exceptionalism is coming to an end there are any number of portfolios one could choose to hedge against it. Holding only globally-diversified stocks, market cap weighted (e.g. a blend of 60:40 VTI:VEU or simple the all-world ETF VT) plus an appropria...

To keep with the baseball theme, Oscar Gamble would say People don’t think gold be like it is. But it do.

Ron Washington would say That’s the way gold go.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/spending-shocker-cbo-s-latest-debt-projection-should-stun-even-washington/ar-AA17Y9Xl FOX News Spending shocker: CBO's latest debt projection should stun even Washington Story by Chad Pergram • Yesterday 9:35 PM The most staggering thing about a recent report...

Government needs to be shrunk/obstructed/gridlocked by any means necessary. If thats not what "republicans" are doing here, then its bad. Why? If you look at places with larger governments vs places with high HDI it seems that there is a correlation. This doesn't mean that having bigger g...

I don’t use the PP any longer but I still listen to podcasts like the ones from Resolve Asset Management who specialize in Risk Parity portfolios. They have convinced me that if you are going to do such a portfolio then you need a lot more diversification than the PP gives you. You definitely need ...

I don’t use the PP any longer but I still listen to podcasts like the ones from Resolve Asset Management who specialize in Risk Parity portfolios. They have convinced me that if you are going to do such a portfolio then you need a lot more diversification than the PP gives you. You definitely need m...

I'm really sorry, you guys. I'm just feel incredibly defeated about what's happening, and last night it was really getting to me. It's the long bonds that are the real nut-buster. They're down over 30 percent, and even after reading Tyler's piece, I still don't see a plausible path to recovery. And...

Sorry, Vinny, I may have been unclear. I'm not asking for your opinion of Naomi Wolf. What is your opinion of what she is saying here? He didn't have an opinion on Naomi Wolf. Wikipedia did. It is my perception that Vinny has no opinion on anything and no ability to critically think on his own, onl...

seajay wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 10:55 am ... but aren't many youth (<30 years) more inclined to socialism, that transition to being capitalist (>30 years old) ... once they've accumulated some of their own wealth.

I heard an adage years ago that a Republican was just a Democrat that had not been robbed yet.

Check the date on this:

DogBreath wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 12:23 pm

glennds wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 12:16 pm

Where will these funds come from? The Fed will create them obviously.

So basically, it was a lie that taxpayers wouldn't fund the bailout. That dang inflation....

I think you meant to write that dang Putin Price Hike.

Here is what HB has to say on the topic. . . For the Permanent Portfolio, a stock-market investment should have these attributes: The Permanent Portfolio's stock-market investments, as a group, should reflect a broad spectrum of American enterprise; they shouldn't be tied to a signle industry or na...

I'm hoping that someone can explain to me why, at any given time, the quotes on particular securities vary so dramatically between platforms. I have money at Fidelity and Ameritrade and use both of those platforms to monitor what's going on in the market. This morning, I was (once again) stunned by...

Thank you, I see the distinction now. And I agree, to a point. The 1980s was a grand experiment in trickle down economics, and while the idea hasn't been totally discredited, I think there are differing opinions on whether enough trickled down such that society as a whole was lifted. I'm kind of gl...

What is income inequality? More fake news. Should a McD burger flipper make the same as a doctor, lawyer or engineer? Those professions required years of expensive schooling and lost wages during said schooling, not to mention hard work. You know who is underpaid? People who work dangerous jobs. No...

Timely news for this thread: https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/10-ways-biden-is-pushing-to-increase-taxes-in-his-2024-budget-proposal-170009051.html In his budget, President Biden is renewing his long-standing calls for more taxes on Corporate America. Biden wants to raise the corporate income tax ...