concur.

Moda-

To put my instructor's comments succinctly, state's rights and commerce (tariffs and property rights) were the driving factors.

Gents- by far the best discussion I have "heard" in a long time.  all of you have brought up profound points, the most interesting for me being the links provided by moda.  seeing it in "their" own words was eye opening.  I wish I had known of these Declaration of Causes of Seced...

Background: I have several accounts for various family members all in the HB 4x25 (via ETFs and not PRPFX), some in taxable and some not. some i add to monthly, yearly, or not at all. so i have to rebalance them individualy by person. My question is at what point is it not worth it to rebalaance? sh...

While still new to the PP, I love its simplicity and performance, and my own perception is that Harry Browne really knew what he was talking about.  Who is the Harry Browne equivalent today?

Great discussion and analogies on a previous post regarding how long it took to convert to the PP.

So I wanted to know if anyone knows someone who was using the PP that later swithched to something else, and if so to what?

AgAuMoney- Thanks for the insight.  Upon further review.....i reread fail safe investing and as you stated, HB discusses volatility in the stock portion.  That's one of the reasons i chose it (VB) in the first place (and as medium tex said, "the chart looks great").  i guess i'm a little w...

Appreciate all the help.  I will definetely take a look at the short term treasury option and relook VB vs VTI.  Medium Tex called it, the VB chart looks good.  thanks again.  I guess i couldn't resist tinkering.

PP Forum- need some help.  I discovered the PP in '10 as a result of the '08 crash (don't ask).  I've read HB's book (fail safe investing) and adopted the PP after further research (read Bogle, Jim Cramer, and dummies (stock investing, indexing, etf's, mutual funds, options, technical analysis)).  E...