Every time I read PERM it conjures images of curlers and hairspray. I used PRPFX until I got more comfortable with the HBPP and now I'm all in (gold bullion, long bonds through brokerage, cash in bank/mm/safe in basement, and a dozen Blue Chip company stocks with a little S&P 500 ETF for rebalan...

Interesting development, guys. 

I will be curious to see what of these forums (and others) becomes the content, and what new information will be published.  When this does become a reality I hope it will be as efficient as Harry's original, perhaps with a chapter devoted to Clive.

Sorry to sound so ignorant, but is something happening to the PP?

I am 100% PP and don't really check it but once a year, and I tune out market noise, so I'm not sure what's up.

Just living my life carefree as a provision of the PP. Should I be concerned?

But don't animals eat other animals? And don't they eat them alive and screaming generally? I'm not sure I understand the morality angle. I've been to a slaughter house and I thought the way they killed the animal was quick and painless. Indices, next time you visit the zoo jump into the tiger pen,...

ATTN All: Please don't consider me the final authority on anything, but do know that we (wife and me) have done and continue to do thorough research on our diet and lifestyle choices. Read the ADA's report on vegetarian diets,  read Foer's Eating Animals, read the China Study by T. Colin Campbell Ph...

[Just in case anybody else is reading this thread: The documentary has nothing to do with animal rights, or even eating Vegan as a political statement.] I personally see nothing wrong-- from a moral standpoint-- with eating animals.  It's the law of the jungle.  Animals kill and eat other animals. ...

Bacteria in our guts would eat our flesh if it came in contact, but our many systems, organs, cells, and et al. all live (mostly) in harmony to power the human body.  Fascinating if you ask me.  Beyond incredible.

Great questions, and while I'm no expert on the matter I believe that answers to your questions are available in literature and video documentary. To try at a few... @MedTex: Yes, whole grains may trigger an inflammation response, and we do see people with a gluten intolerance.  My understanding is ...

We just watched this too, and have had our Jack LaLane Juicer for quite a while now. My wife was a chef by trade and I was the world's #1 meat eater, but we went vegan years ago and haven't looked back.  Animals have to suffer and die every day, so we can have heart disease, obesity, and things like...

Macs are a great product, and a great investment as they do have a high resale value in any condition. I like the Air, but won't buy it.  I think a table would be just as good, perhaps better in some cases, and I have a MacBook Pro for portability.  Also, SSD it too expensive.  Go with a hybrid SSD+...

As I recall in reading about grains somewhere, the theory about them being bad for you is based upon the idea that grains trigger inflammation responses in humans just as something like poison ivy does, though in much more subtle ways. This defense mechanism is supposed to make us not want to eat t...

Historically, there have been only a handful of (annual) rebalancing events in the PP's 40-year life.  Perhaps when you're DCA'ing into the PP or transitioning it might be helpful, but once you're all in it really just works by itself. 

After receiving a large sum as inheretence, I began researching in order to put my money to work, to grow and protect it.  Bogle's book Common Sense Investing came first after a local library search.  It was so transparent and logical that I was convinced and adopted the strategy straight away.  How...

After watching the PP perform for a while dips like this come as no surprise and are of no consequence.

Toward the end of Jon Krakauer's "Under The Banner of Heaven", he reports on legal proceedings to try to determine whether someone who murdered several people because he believed God told him to meets the definition of insanity under Utah state law. Excerpts: Gardner [an expert witness an...

I rebalanced the end of Jan 2011 on that date I increased my shares of TLT. Previous to that most of  my TLT holding in my taxable account consisted of shares bought around the middle of May 2010. Thinking back I remember TLT going up countering the drop in the stock market (VTI) then the stock mar...

Is America becoming anti-science? Does anyone get the impression that half of our country wants to turn its back on scientific progress? There seems to be a backlash against climate change, alternative energy tech, evolution, genetic research etc. in this country that doesn't permeate other western...

dualstow wrote: Sounds like strictly variable portfolio fun.

Indeed. I guess it does.

Would a mod' kindly move/merge this to the VP section?

Since this is VP territory now, is it possible to create an inverse PP?

Do any of the inverse TSM etf's or funds have a place in the PP?  It seems that the principle is similar to gold or LTT; when stock are suffering these assets do well.  I'm just wondering if, for instance, you could do 20% TSM and 5% 2x inverse TSM or something, and rebalance within.  I know that 2x...

I plan to hold the few stocks I do own for some time (AAPL, CLX, CVX, etc.) and use a TSM fund for rebalancing.  If you keep an eye on your individual equities and buy/sell every year when you rebalance it works well enough.  However, I don't have enough time to micromanage my own TSM portfolio.

Chart PRPFX against GTAA.

It's a loose comparison, but you will get the idea. 

Slightly off topic, bit does anyone have a spreadsheet like the one appearing in the previous post? I use Vanguard tools to check %'s, however it would be nice to have a PP spreadsheet that J could plug the numbers into and know my rebalance price points.

Look at what others are doing in the index and buy those securities.  Not only can you weed out companies you are morally or otherwise opposed to, but you control everything on the equity side.  Am I missing something? The issue is that it's just so darn cheap and effective to buy VTI, SCHB, etc.  ...

Why would you hold VTI and SDS (ultra short S&P500) at the same time?  Is it like an options hedge? Re: SDS- ProShares UltraShort S&P500 (the Fund) seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, that correspond to twice (200%) the inverse (opposite) of the daily performance of th...

While it's still a long ways from being a HBPP, I found this to be an interesting setup...perhaps even a good VP for those interested. http://seekingalpha.com/article/275419-holy-grail-portfolio-revisited-etfs-and-stocks-that-form-a-winning-combination http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/6/1...