I just watched the second episode.  The message is that a strong immune system is the best defense against cancer.  I can dig it.  Unfortunately, the documentary suggests it can best be achieved will healthy doses of snake oil, conspiracy theories, and anecdotal evidence, with a small drop of religi...

I would reinvest any dividends, coupons, or interest into the asset from which it came.  Mainly because that approach provides a slightly higher CAGR (see for yourself at peaktotrough.com).  The alternatives are letting it remain as cash or investing it in the asset of lowest value at the time.  I c...

Although I think hes conflating CO2 with the alleged causes of global warming.  Pollution causes global cooling, not warming.  CO2 is a pollutant, yes? Well, there are pollutants and there are pollutants.  Atmospheric dust from a volcanic eruption, a forest fire, a nuclear explosion, or an asteroid...

I'll only comment on one item.  Did you know that MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) was originally named NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance)?  The name was changed to appease the "fear of everything nuclear" crowd and thus sell it to the ignorant masses.  Goes along with your other comment about the po...

How about adopting a hybrid plan?  Like, combining "35/15" with "every two/three years," and then rebalancing whichever comes first.  That way you would keep the bands wide (handy for taking advantage of rapid and wide market swings), but never leaving the portfolio alone for too long (providing the...

Reviving an old thread here, this may well be the worst article on grilling I've ever read: http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/07/grilling_feminism_and_masculinity_a_grand_unified_theory.html?wpsrc This guy needs some time away from his liberal friends. But I’m uncomfortable with t...

You know, the "can't afford to lose" part means "won't disappear" and not "will never ever ever decline in value." If there was a portfolio that had real gains with no nominal losses ever, everyone would be using it! About 50% of people -- especially Millennials -- do.  It's called C-A-S-H.  ;D I B...

Another favorite of mine is from Ryan Melvey (melveyr).  http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Olmcg4ieFKg/TbcL7ZRl_5I/AAAAAAAAADM/QF68g7nuKMM/s1600/ppreal.jpg More info here: http://tinyurl.com/otuojkc Good chart but it looks like it ends in 2011...any chance of an updated version out to 2014 or (so far) 2015...

It could get written up in the newspaper. From the original post: "What happens to you is sad, but it's not something that would get more than local news coverage (if it got any coverage at all)." OK, you got me, but it doesn't change my answer. If you're going to challenge my reading comprehension...

The key to solving this puzzle seems to be that the death will be so ordinary that it wouldn't get written up in the local paper.  So no death during a mugging or some shooting incident.  I'm thinking a car crash; we know this man drives everywhere.  MT says the thought experiment is about risk, so ...

Pet Hog, not sure if you'd be willing to make a modification, but it strikes me there's a little room for more granularity in the color coding. Since the 3-6% average return range makes up such a vast majority of the data, it would be interesting to see that broken down perhaps into two subsets lik...

pugchief wrote: As of mid-day, GTU is up over 2% while GLD is flat.

Consistent with GTU's 7.0% NAV discount yesterday becoming 5.0% today.