Interesting that China didn't return him. Can't fathom what he had to go through to get from China to South Korea. To exit China? For South Korea? With no documentation - ? IIRC, the border between North and South Korea is a heavily guarded DMZ and would be extremely difficult to penetrate directly...

I'm also glad that you managed to get back on the forum, Mom2.  I was wondering why you hadn't posted. Living in a country so different from the US is incredibly enlightening.  It's too easy to take our lives here (the good, bad & ugly) for granted.  Your perspectives are much appreciated! Than...

My children are safer here than in the United States. Heck, my whole family is safer in China than in the United States! No one is going to barge into a movie theater in China and shoot the place up. Likewise, no one is going to barge into my children's school and shoot the place up. I hear about t...

Interesting that China didn't return him.

Can't fathom what he had to go through to get from China to South Korea. To exit China? For South Korea? With no documentation - ?

I'm intending to take a short vacation to Hong Kong, and intend to buy my very first purchase of gold (coins) to kick off my pp.  I'm buying about US$350K+ for my first allocation, then store them there, either rent a bank's safe deposit box or a non-bank repository. Is this a good idea?  It being ...

Do you like living there? China, like everywhere, has its pluses and its minuses. The pluses include: 1.) My children are safer here than in the United States. Heck, my whole family is safer in China than in the United States! No one is going to barge into a movie theater in China and shoot the pla...

You weren't banned as an individual. As a forum policy we have prohibited anyone coming from a Chinese domain (*.cn domain) from registering/logging in because they are almost 100% of the time a spammer (been like that for well over a year now). It was just easier to block the entire country than t...

I have to pinch myself! Am I really allowed to log in and post? For the last two weeks or so, I have been banned. I was so sad! I hadn't posted in such a long time, so I was almost certain I hadn't been banned for anything I had recently said, but I was banned nonetheless and, in addition to that, I...

Gentlemen, there are ladies here.

Looks like it paid a dividend today. So...are you saying that what might be going on is that the people who held it for the dividend or who were waiting for the dividend before they were going to sell are now selling it? Or maybe, in their eyes, the dividend was not enough or was too much? Or somet...

For those of us holding EDV, this really is a really awful PP day, I grant you that. With EDV being down almost 5% (even though TLT is up?!), and with gold also being way down... yeah. As I've said before, I started DCAing into the PP in September. It's been consistently down and more down and then...

Looks like it paid a dividend today. So...are you saying that what might be going on is that the people who held it for the dividend or who were waiting for the dividend before they were going to sell are now selling it? Or maybe, in their eyes, the dividend was not enough or was too much? Or somet...

For those of us holding EDV, this really is a really awful PP day, I grant you that. With EDV being down almost 5% (even though TLT is up?!), and with gold also being way down... yeah. As I've said before, I started DCAing into the PP in September. It's been consistently down and more down and then ...

Why would EDV be so drastically down - almost 5% - while TLT is not only not down at all but slightly up? What's going on with EDV? Anyone know?

SQUEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

So. Freaking. EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!

Can one die of joy?

Thank you for posting this!!! 

::happy dance::

I've bought 30 year bonds off the secondary market via Vanguard three times now. Once in September, once in October, and once in November. My first two purchases (September and October) went without a hitch. I'm a new investor but I'm relatively computer savvy and so even though I had never invested...

I look at the regimented societies of North Korea and Communist China under Mao and ask myself could it happen here in freedom loving America? Here, let me help you out with that question. The answer is NO. There are a zillion jillion gazillion uncrossable light years in between health care legisla...

It's interesting how discussions progress sometimes. I started off thinking, "Wow, look at that 50% difference in duration between 20- and 30-year bonds when yields are near zero. I should probably sell my bonds at the 25-year mark instead of the 20!" But now my attention has been drawn t...

If in a taxable act, is there any benefit to capturing capital gains/losses yearly rather than every 5? I have found in my experience that it is easier to let individual bonds "sleep" in your portfolio.  They just sit there doing nothing most of the time, and twice a year they wake up and...

CANSLIM is not a hands-off, buy-and-hold strategy... an important component is to sell stocks when they drop 8%.  That requires frequent attention. But as we know from the PP strategy, stocks perform well under certain circumstances, not all circumstances.  And a particular stock strategy will perf...

Wow... I thought my previous post would generate at least a little discussion, but I guess not. It was a surprising discovery for me, and I'm wondering why nobody else seems to be very surprised by it. Maybe most folks on this forum invest in TLT rather than buying T-bonds directly. I think I'll be...

(And by the way - I've said on these boards before how much I fear stocks but not long term bonds and not gold - it's because of what I saw happen to my Auntie because she followed IBD and all of their stock-picking ridiculousness and got badly burned. And then a few years later 2008 happened and it...

I hate the whole IBD, CANSLIM, "Look, that one stock is about to BREAK OUT! See its squiggly line path?!" thing that they do, and let me tell you why. A long time ago, my favorite Auntie, who has always loved everything investing, lost literally millions - and I do mean that, MILLIONS - of...

Only two ways to buy them: - Treasury Direct (electronic) - Federal income tax refund (paper) Warning:  think carefully when designating an account to link to Treasury Direct.  I discovered that if you want to change it or add a new account, you need to send in a form with a medallion stamp.  Talk ...

How in the world can it be cheaper to live in NY, NY than in El Paso, Texas?! That just doesn't make any rational sense to me at all. I would imagine that for the same price as a studio apartment in NY you could buy a four bedroom home in the El Paso suburbs or something. And Texas has no income ta...