I think that guns, passport, bitcoin, increased physical gold allocation, increasing your digital privacy, land, upping self sufficiency skills (gardening, etc) and overall vigilance are good "variable portfolio" ideas here. I think trying to invest international or changing %s of the PP is a reall...

https://www.theoptimizingblog.com/leveraged-all-weather-portfolio/ I came across this blog yesterday and it suggests a modification to Ray Dalio's All Weather Portfolio substituting Utilities for the Commodities portion. 30% Total Stock 40% Long Term Treasury 15% Intermediate Treasury 8% Utilities ...

D1984, In your Edit 2 you indeed found the raw information to which I was trying to direct you! The way to parse the data out of what you've got involves writing a script or program. I don't think there's going to be a general-purpose tool that will do it out of the box. I would implement it in Per...

It looks like if you pull up the Network tab of the Dev Tools while refreshing the page, one of the requests that gets made is to "defaultChart?type=getcc&secids=%24FOCA%24LB%24%24;CA]FO&dataid=117&startdate=2009-06-03&enddate=2020-06-02¤cy=USD&format=1&adjusment=-" with a "plain" type. Pull ...

Do we have any computer/software/scripting experts on here? I have a quick question/issue: I am trying to get some daily data on certain mutual funds (including two that were closed/liquidated a few years ago) in order to run a backtest in Excel and PV. CRSP only has monthly data--not that I have ac...

Smoking doesn’t wipe out the economy the way the virus has. The virus hasn't tanked the economy, the government did. You assume that people are just going to magically start shopping and spending (and being in crowded stores/restaurants/gyms/hair salons/auto dealerships/airplanes/etc) like before i...

What did you do to start getting them? Nothing I'm aware of. All from unknown random numbers. I've gotten three of them myself in the last couple of days. I have no idea why; I'm registered as an independent and voted an almost all Democratic ticket in 2016 and 2018 (there were one and two local of...

Why is Biden doing so well in Arizona? I think that's the biggest surprise here. Texas is the big surprise to me. In any normal election Texas would no more be in play than California. I have read in some news sources that the GOP is, if not quite in a state of full panic, getting close. And the li...

Hyperinflation is impossible in a country with all of it's debts denominated in it's own currency. ESPECIALLY impossible for a country that is the global reserve and trade currency. We will never see hyperinflation. But, we may see high inflation , and that can be painful enough on its own. I do ag...

I keep meaning to ask you, Mark: has this virus put a big dent in your lifestyle? Seemed like you were something of a citizen of the world until the outbreak. I guess you're limited to the States for now. Does it feel strange? Thanks dualstow. Yes, it has definitely put a kink in my plans. When it ...

Isn't healthcare 'free' in Canuckville? Only critical healthcare is "free." Stuff like dental is either paid out of pocket or covered by a plan, typically provided by your employer. Critical? So you need to rely on the government to take care of you when you are most vulnerable? Sounds like a great...

[I'd take anything from Dr. Mercola with a giant grain of salt Isn't that too much sodium? ??? Seriously, everything I've read so far says that fighting the viruses with vitamins is wishful thinking. We're taking D and C anyway, and shiitake mushrooms when we can get them, but ... we know it's wish...