glennds wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2025 4:17 am

From AP article February 21, 2025

Of course the AP would never omit or skew anything, right?

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pmbug wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2025 7:22 am

Recently, the IRS clarified their rules and some dealers are now saying that 1099b reporting only applies to transactions involving large bars that could be use to settle futures contracts (watch from ~2:20 until ~5:20):

Super! Thanks.

If we believe the prosecutions were mishandled by Biden's DOJ, but we still believe in rule of law as a cornerstone of society..... then why not re-open all the cases and re-prosecute them the "right" way? Is that even possible, legally? Logistically there were, what, 1500 cases? Just to ...

Here is a great example of why I come down on the side of pardoning the J6 people. I realize there are some bad actors in the group, but the way the whole thing was handled by the Feds tells me that Trump did the right thing in pardoning them. I also realize we are only hearing this woman's side of ...

US citizens could not own gold in 1967.

stuper1 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 05, 2025 1:53 pm Do they forecast bad things for paper gold ETFs like IAU?

Not exactly but he is of the same mind as HB was. Physical gold.

They did put in a plug for SWP Cayman. I really need to get going on that.

Here’s a podcast that talks about what’s going on with gold, starting at about the 28 minute mark. I listened on Apple Podcasts but it is on all of them. YouTube link below. Podcast name is Doug Casey’s Take, episode 369. If you’d like to hear alternative opinions on Gaza and USAID, start at the beg...

Back to Ulbricht, he was sentenced to double life in prison plus 40 years with no possibility of parole. That is a little bit excessive. His main crime was that he ran an underground website which allowed anonymous users to buy and sell whatever they pleased, paying with Bitcoin. Of course there wer...

What I want to know is, is John Mellencamp going to change the line in Little Pink Houses to “and vacation down at the Gulf of America”?

Because that won’t rhyme!

Here is an article offering legal support of the executive order. https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/birthright?e=f224a7b5b6 What was meant by the clause was that you had to be subject to no other sovereign. Senator Jacob Howard drafted the citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Here is what he sa...

glennds wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2025 5:51 pm He's a first term senator in his district. I think this might be his seminal bill
It took some spunk for him to put it out there

Lol!

glennds wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2025 9:24 am What exactly is the Libertarian argument for why he was wrongly convicted and deserved to be pardoned?

It’s a good question. I imagine it comes down to how pure is a person’s libertarianism. A pure libertarian would see Silk Road as doing things that should not be illegal to begin with.

I’m not defending the guy, but is it ethical for a judge to use unproven charges to justify a harsher sentence? If he could have been found guilty on those charges, why didn’t they try him on them?

I know someone here recently posted their desire to see Ross Ulbricht pardoned. It has happened.

mathjak107 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2025 2:02 pm We already give to the charities we want and are not really interested in giving away any more at this stage

Much to early in the game for us

I'm just saying that giving from the RMDs is better tax-wise than regular giving.

If you have interest in donating to charities, donating your RMDs makes excellent tax sense. If you can afford it and are so motivated, of course.

I don't know if this is the intended place for all of us to post our results, but here goes. With the same disclaimer as years past: I'm not rebalancing, so these days I have 40-something percent in stocks, with the rest in gold, cash, and bonds. 14.1% for 2024 3 years: 4.4% 5 years: 6.9% 10 years: ...

Jack Jones wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2024 4:41 pm 1-800-chat-gpt was just released.

Thanks, I had to try it. The conversation made sense, if a bit facile. The delivery was the biggest giveaway. About like hearing from Siri.

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dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2024 9:57 amWhy?

Why not?

Way overdue.

That’s it, this is the top, folks.

On the MacroVoices podcast, David Rosenberg threw in the towel on being bearish on the US stock market. To me, that's a little bell going off. When the most bearish capitulate, that's it. That's the top. I’m feeling the same way. I’m not selling anything but that doesn’t mean I’m not expecting some...

For those who wonder, the vanguard index funds consist of multiple classes of the same fund. They are able to launder their gains through the institutional and ETF class. https://www.investopedia.com/how-vanguard-patented-a-system-to-avoid-taxes-in-mutual-funds-4686985 The process is completely leg...

For those who wonder, the vanguard index funds consist of multiple classes of the same fund. They are able to launder their gains through the institutional and ETF class.

https://www.investopedia.com/how-vangua ... ds-4686985

In 2008-09, after reading Bill Bernstein’s Four Pillars Of Investing, I rebooted into stock index funds for tax efficiency in my taxable space. Since then the value is WAY up but I have paid next to no taxes on any of the gains. I’ve paid on the dividends, of course, taxed at favorable qualified div...