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.

Jack Jones wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2024 2:43 pm

yankees60 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2024 2:33 pm

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...

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 4:41 pm My buy price for MSTR: $252 USD
My buy price for Bitcoin: $67k USD

I am currently up ~$95k CAD on my principle after just a few weeks in this position.

I know volatility cuts both ways.. but wowza. O_o

Is it money that you can’t afford to lose? (Channeling Harry)

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 4:31 pm We just briefly touched $90k today. Holy moly.

Yeah it’s nuts.

How much "Resistance" will there be this time? Will it be a normal opposition or will it be like 2016? I don't expect the opposition people in powerful DC positions to go quietly. But this time they don't have the House to bring an impeachment about nothing, as they did for his policy abou...

If it wasn't a landslide, it was at least a rock slide, the kind that tears up US Hwy 101 in California every so often.

The House margin being so slim, every interim election for a vacant seat will become a battle royale, unless it's a deep red or blue district.

boglerdude wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2024 11:06 pm Maybe Goldman and Morgan are trading it back and forth like mortgages in 08. When it pops, fed bailout. Blame Trump.

That's funny because it's probably true!

I have a hard time fathoming who is making the bid at 84K.

The election was not simply about Trump. The result will never make sense to anyone that continues to frame it that way. Care to share your analysis? Almost any half decent R candidate would have won. Harris was arguably the worst presidential candidate in modern times. And most of what she represe...

I'll take a crack at it. As a traditionally agrarian society, urban southerners retain more rural traditions than urban northerners, whose ancestors were manufacturing in big cities much earlier. I think it’s more about ancestry. The Scandinavians, Dutch, Germans were more self-sufficient, introver...

I like dollar cost averaging over a year or so.

You have put a lot more thought into this than I have, but I agree with your conclusion. It’s not a bubble, but it has been a one way trade for too long. There is a lot of stupid money bidding up the prices of big ticket items, and a lot of debt. It’s time. I just can't help but think that stocks (a...