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- Wed Apr 21, 2021 10:12 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Golden Butterfly asset location when retired with RMDs
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15859
Re: Golden Butterfly asset location when retired with RMDs
I used the Wm Bernstein strategy: Higher income/ interest producing assets in tax deferred. Especially bonds. Lesser producing/ lower tax rate/ self-deferring assets in taxable Of course when we hit 70.5, the tax bills are going to come due. But supposedly all the years of deferral have made it wort...
- Wed Apr 21, 2021 8:34 am
- Forum: Stocks
- Topic: Minimizing counterparty risk
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3389
Re: Minimizing counterparty risk
Paywall article, but you can see enough to get the drift, from an industry publication.
https://www.americanbanker.com/news/you ... s-fix-that
https://www.americanbanker.com/news/you ... s-fix-that
- Wed Apr 21, 2021 8:31 am
- Forum: Stocks
- Topic: Minimizing counterparty risk
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3389
Re: Minimizing counterparty risk
I would be 99.999% sure that Vanguard held stocks underlying the index are simple book entries for Vanguard. Apparently through the entity you brought up.
- Wed Apr 21, 2021 8:29 am
- Forum: Stocks
- Topic: Minimizing counterparty risk
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3389
Re: Minimizing counterparty risk
Well, that's fascinating.murphy_p_t wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 7:06 am Here's a short Wikipedia relating to the subject
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cede_and_Company
- Wed Apr 21, 2021 8:20 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Golden Butterfly asset location when retired with RMDs
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15859
Re: Golden Butterfly asset location when retired with RMDs
Are you just setting it up now, or do you already have the assets? The reason I ask is, if you already have the assets, I don't see how i can be worthwhile to move them around, given the tax consequences of the trades.
- Wed Apr 21, 2021 6:12 am
- Forum: Stocks
- Topic: Minimizing counterparty risk
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3389
Re: Minimizing counterparty risk
That’s a perspective I had never considered.
- Tue Apr 20, 2021 4:17 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Chauvin Verdict
- Replies: 177
- Views: 31911
Re: Chauvin Verdict
Guilty on all counts.
Let the mostly peaceful celebrations begin.
Let the mostly peaceful celebrations begin.
- Tue Apr 20, 2021 4:15 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Chauvin Verdict
- Replies: 177
- Views: 31911
Re: Chauvin Verdict
Apple picked a very unfortunate date for their latest product reveal.
Re: Inflation
Yeah but a lot of people are jumping on the rates too.
A $300K loan at 3% for 30 years has a payment of less than $1300.
A $300K loan at 3% for 30 years has a payment of less than $1300.
- Mon Apr 19, 2021 11:53 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: You can't take it with you...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3423
Re: You can't take it with you...
Flyingpylon and Cortopassi, my answer is YES. Spend and enjoy it. Neither of you are going to endanger your futures.
I think the inflection point occurs when, after allowing for contingencies, you can tell that you are going to have enough at the end. However you define enough.
I think the inflection point occurs when, after allowing for contingencies, you can tell that you are going to have enough at the end. However you define enough.
- Mon Apr 19, 2021 11:50 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: You can't take it with you...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3423
Re: You can't take it with you...
I think "trust fund babies" are more the result of bad parenting than having a trust fund. It's hard to know what happens once significant money enters the picture. Especially for later generations that we won't be parenting. Where to store gold, and what to leave for future generations, ...
- Mon Apr 19, 2021 9:42 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: You can't take it with you...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3423
Re: You can't take it with you...
I suspect people might get worried about "oversaving" in cases where they don't like what they have to do to make the money. If you hate your job, it would make sense to not work at it a second longer than necessary, and therefore figuring out how much is 'necessary' is important. I think...
- Sun Apr 18, 2021 2:33 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Vitamin D3 Cold Remedy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1599
Re: Vitamin D3 Cold Remedy
Last week I increased my D dosage. Now I’ve been not sleeping deeply. Looked it up, D can reduce melatonin. So I’m going back to the prior, lower dose.
- Sun Apr 18, 2021 2:31 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: Satellite views of some vaults
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4584
Re: Satellite views of some vaults
- Sun Apr 18, 2021 8:58 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: You can't take it with you...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3423
Re: You can't take it with you...
The problem is, you can't predict the situation in which you end up. If I had known then what I know now, we would have done a lot more (things, spending) in the prime of our lives. Or would we have, really? We could always tell we were going to have "enough", as the term is used in Bogleh...
- Sun Apr 18, 2021 8:11 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: You can't take it with you...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3423
Re: You can't take it with you...
I have a lot of thoughts on this. It has become one of the cosmic questions for me. I feel like I need to write a book about it just so I can figure it out. :) If I can clarify my internal ramblings a little, I'll try to post some points, feelings, observations. I usually do that by writing anyway.
- Sat Apr 17, 2021 3:45 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Where is Dualstow?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1787
Re: Where is Dualstow?
Vinny used up all the forum’s exclamation marks, and DS is out scrounging for more.
- Sat Apr 17, 2021 10:00 am
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: Satellite views of some vaults
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4584
Satellite views of some vaults
SWP Caymans: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Strategic+Wealth+Preservation/@19.2909904,-81.3729857,193m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x8f2586686dae0937:0x2e3c70a694aa02bf!8m2!3d19.2910694!4d-81.3726316 Das Safe, Vienna: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Safe+Wertfachvermietungs+GmbH/@48.207257,16.35452...
- Sat Apr 17, 2021 9:06 am
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: Why isn't gold moving?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 22730
Re: Why isn't gold moving?
Moving now. it's up a hundred bucks over recent lows.
- Sat Apr 17, 2021 7:35 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The IRS Tried to Take on the Ultrawealthy. It Didn’t Go Well.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 763
Re: The IRS Tried to Take on the Ultrawealthy. It Didn’t Go Well.
It's a very interesting article. I had no idea that if you had enough firepower you could run the IRS in circles that easily. boglerdude, well that day is surely coming. Let's recall that the OBiden-Bama era IRS targeted conservative tax exempt groups. Lois Lerner lied to Congress about it and didn'...
- Sat Apr 17, 2021 7:30 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: What could possibly go wrong?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 850
Re: What could possibly go wrong?
"over 110,000 people are currently on the waiting list for a life-saving organ transplant." So, worth the risk If these creatures have any amount of human intelligence and social skills, this is going to be hugely immoral. We don't know what it will be. Maybe the scientists do, but we don...
- Fri Apr 16, 2021 3:13 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: What could possibly go wrong?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 850
What could possibly go wrong?
Scientists Create Embryos That Are Part Human, Part Monkey Plans to create this new species for organ harvesting. Jeesh! https://www.iheart.com/content/2021-04-16-scientists-create-embryos-that-are-part-human-part-monkey/?mid=609321&rid=98632467&sc=email&pname=newsletter&cid=NATIONAL...
- Thu Apr 15, 2021 2:07 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Coronavirus General Discussion
- Replies: 5196
- Views: 1992012
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
Here's a lefty magazine's article that says that a lot of what was force fed as "the science" was probably wrong. Imagine that! Someone tell Twitter. Executive summary: You can stop sanitizing surfaces and items, and focus on airborne transmission. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive...
- Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:53 pm
- Forum: Stocks
- Topic: Future of Investing
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4093
Re: Future of Investing
If there is a sea change, it's the financialization of the economy, and the casino-ization of the investment world. Do you know there are more ETFs than stocks? And Robin Hooders playing with futures, just like betting on sports. So then the question is, are there fundamentals and value somewhere un...
- Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:48 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: Why isn't gold moving?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 22730
Re: Why isn't gold moving?
Don't know, but I'm buying.