12.2%

I am overweight stocks and underweight gold.
Stocks are split between SP500 and Intl.
Using short term bond funds instead of cash.
I haven't checked lately but they should all still be within the 15-35% bands.

I (we) have Enough x 2 or 3. It’s a great feeling. I recall reading maybe Bill Bernstein saying that Bill Gates could afford to be 100% stocks. It was probably in his booklet “Deep Risk”. I tend to agree with Tyler. OTOH when you get to a big number, you start thinking about kids, grandkids, charity...

I am amazed that the wire transfers into the US by entities of Paul Manafort didn’t attract immediate scrutiny. Why would that be? Because it looked like foreign ownership?

I seldom look at my PP or its components.

I guess because my buy in of gold was below 800, I see it differently. If the current prices are waffling back and forth between a paper loss and gain, I can see how that would keep you worked up. I am in gold for the long, long run.

edited, I may have erred.

I bet in several years we will look back at this and laugh about how weak and vulnerable the electronic transaction system was. The various financial entities wanted to make it painless for consumers, but that is now backfiring. In the future we will have to have some sort of physical verification. ...

We have about a 50/50 split in stocks between SP500 and non-US EAFE. It looks like this year it finally worked for the better.

I must be a genius.

I've never been interested in seeing Mt. Rushmore. I guess I better see it before it is blown up.
As I read somewhere else today, what about the Roman Coliseum? Slaves were abused there. Slave owners were entertained there. Blow it up too.

Kriegsspiel wrote:

I Shrugged wrote:Trump won't be on the ballot in November 2020.

Now THAT is an assassination threat if I've ever heard one so bureaucratically stated.

I figure it this way:
10% chance he doesn't serve 4 years
20% chance he decides not to run again
40% chance he loses in the primaries

I thought it was describing the stock market. My bad.

Trump won't be on the ballot in November 2020.

Update. The Indian stock market has cratered since new tax schemes and the wars on cash and gold.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-0 ... rikes-back

I call him The Accidental President.

I don't think he thought he would win anything. He hooked a whale and couldn't let go as it pulled him into the abyss. By this time he must be thinking what the hell did I do?

I can go along with it being tragicomedy, for sure.

We have been traveling for a while. I had not checked on our portfolio for at least a month. I was surprised to see how well it is doing. I guess I'll let the wife buy that tee shirt she wanted in the tourist shop.

I read a blog post today that made some sense regarding Trump's drastic change. Namely, suggesting that "they" truly have something big on him, or have otherwise shown him what could they could make go wrong for him personally. Of course it's just an idea, a conspiracy theory to boot, but it would e...

Here is Scott Adams, a Trump admirer, putting some meat into the argument that this is all about negotiating. http://blog.dilbert.com/post/159495094661/the-north-korea-reframe The only thing lacking in Trump’s reframing was a credible threat that he would launch a decapitation strike against North K...

I don't like what Trump is doing. I also don't think that Hillary would have been better. In fact I'm pretty sure she would have been worse. Oh well, at least I've had a few months of thinking that things might actually get better overall. Me too. So did DJT scam us, or is he is just a chameleon wh...

I don't know if HB's book is too simple for some analytical types. I think maybe you need to have battle scars to appreciate it fully. Sophie I would recommend Berstein's Four Pillars book. Assuming he is smart and analytical. It really showed me the error of my ways as far as using active funds, le...

Well we can all imagine a citizen's dividend and who will fund it, but until then, let's be clear... it's not the "wealthy" that fund Social Security... it's mid-to-high income wage/salary or self-employed income earners. In my experience, the vast majority of the time, these people aren't really a...

I don't have 1000 posts, but, I started my PP in the depths of the 08-09 crash. I needed to capture some big capital losses at the time, so it was a great time to make the move. I am still there, within 15/35 bands. Stocks are low-30-something percent now. I would not mind if stocks climbed to 40%, ...

It may just end not with a bang, but with a whimper.

I want to be able to go on Bogleheads when that happens.

I can't see how the US Dollar can possibly survive with any purchasing power over the long haul. It can't. That is the beauty of fiat money from the government's standpoint. They want inflation; they need inflation. For them, it's the most perfect tax ever devised. Nothing else is even close. Ironi...

I still don't see what this has to do with Maxine Waters telling us that Obama has a database for organizing and fundraising. Because she called it secret?

Flying under the radar of all the bickering about restroom rights and Russians, the big picture is not getting any better. Break down that national and state and local debt by the number of US citizens, and we find that we each – every man, woman, and child – owe over $70,000. Worse yet, the total d...