Steve Easterbrook’s out. He was a wonderful CEO. His relationship with an employee was consensual, but it violated company policy, so he’s fired. Now I have to “fire” McDonald’s from my portfolio. Too bad, it was among my favorite stocks. 'Buy into a business that's doing so well an idiot could run...

Regular PP for 9 peaceful years.

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I am looking at where each of the three investments currently are and it seems that two - stock and bonds - are at the all time highs while gold is near an all-time high. This certainly goes counter to buy high / sell low. If you search the term "all time high" on this forum, you'll get 17 pages of...

Thanks!

I still lurk regularly. Just don't have much to add, so not a big poster these days.

What's the startup?

Wow! A post from Craig. This is better than the time Satoshi Nakamoto emailed me!

I am a big fan of EE bonds for the reasons you mention.

Just remember that you can only buy $10K a year.

Also a good idea to have some T-bills prior to using EE bonds so that you can rebalance or use for emergencies.

Adam

buddtholomew wrote:

Hey AdamA, what are you learning from your results?
Sorry, haven't kept up with this thread for a while.

That the assets are volatile.

Here are the 2016 results: 12/30/15 TLT 7 Jan 2018 Calls $5544 SPY 3 Jan 2018 Calls $5251 GLD 5 Jan 2018 Calls $5488 1/3/2016 TLT $3616 -35% SPY $7135 +36% GLD $6347 +16% Start Finish $16,283 $17,098 Total $815 (gross 5%) *.15% (capital gains) = $693 (net 4.3%) At one point this year the portfolio w...

Has anyone watched this series? 12 part documentary by Oliver Stone. I am in the middle of it and curious to hear opinions.

http://instantwatcher.com/title/80127995

I am perfectly happy with the PP's performance.

I'm just curious as to what people think is motivating the trends in the various asset classes post election.