Anyone else notice that we no longer hear about super spreader events? There are packed football games everywhere. But the term seems to have been dropped.

I believe pp4me's point is that if enough of the people in power actually don't care to protect some right, then it won't be protected, regardless of what the Bill of Rights says. Yeah, that's what I meant. Also, it's up to the Supreme Court to interpret the text and determine whether or not the Bi...

Hospitals are short staffed almost everywhere in the USA.
Hospitals are threatening to fire qualified staff over vaccination status.

Make of that what you will.

barrett wrote: ↑Fri Sep 24, 2021 7:15 am With gold down about 6% over the last 12 months and stocks up 31%, I am curious if anyone is re-balancing into gold recently.

It’s on my to do list.

Can we get an audit of how the Hunter Biden laptop story was suppressed, of Twitter and Facebook, the CIA and FBI, CNN, etc.?

A different kind of election fraud.

StrategyDriven wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 1:06 pm

I Shrugged wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 8:57 pm I have a less alarmed view of a 50% stock drop because I’m only one third stocks. If I can’t take a 15-20% overall loss I shouldn’t be investing.

Where are you allocated with the other 2/3rd?

Gold, cash, long bonds

I have a less alarmed view of a 50% stock drop because I’m only one third stocks. If I can’t take a 15-20% overall loss I shouldn’t be investing.

Two years at junior college were probably $1000 a year, so I was putting money in the bank during those two years. I did run out of money during year 4 at state U, and borrowed a small amount.

I read this book in one night, probably about ten years ago, and it still would probably work now. Debt-Free U: How I Paid for an Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, or Mooching off My Parents https://www.amazon.com/Debt-Free-U-How-I-Paid-for-an-Outstanding-College-Education-...

My answer would be the same as Mark's. In the early days, I would have said I'm holding it for inflation protection. But over time I came to strongly value the latter two of Mark's three points. It has attributes that just can't be had within the realm of dollar based assets. I started out with just...

I had a thought last night while being waited on at Whataburger by full grown adults. You just don't see teenagers work much any more. OK, so here was my train of thought. College is so expensive that a kid cannot hope to self fund it. OTOH when I went, I was able to fund it by working summer jobs a...

It seems to be part of a generalized fear-based view of the world, together with an unnatural dependency of parents on their children. Used to be that children could pile into a Radio Flyer wagon and go barreling down an infrequently traveled road. These days, the parent of a child who dares try su...

Glenn Greenwald had an insightful article today, which I admit I only skimmed, on the topic of how the elites get to be mask free while they are attended to by masked peons, photo'd by masked photographers, etc. Specifically at various political and left wing galas, but it's probably similar at righ...

I’m gonna guess that gold is the reason why.

Here is a CDC article about children. One interesting tidbit found in the paragraph preceding the "Discussion" heading: A total of eight in-hospital COVID-19–related deaths in persons aged 0–17 years occurred during August 2020–August 2021 (0.4% of hospitalized patients). 8 kids dying in ...

Well the slope of the Florida 7 day average deaths curve (I looked at a few sites) is heading downward at about a 60 degree angle. We just don't know where it will bottom, but a normal chart interpretation would suggest it is indeed crashing. I still say (hope) that this time will be the charm, so t...

Here is a CDC article about children. One interesting tidbit found in the paragraph preceding the "Discussion" heading: A total of eight in-hospital COVID-19–related deaths in persons aged 0–17 years occurred during August 2020–August 2021 (0.4% of hospitalized patients). 8 kids dying in a...

What a useless asset. I’ve held for 10-12 years and doubled my money. Selling today. A CAGR of 6-7%? That doesn’t sound so bad. The problem is the opportunity cost. Over that time I would have quadrupled my money. You should have mega remorse for not loading up on Bitcoin 10-12 years ago.

My guess is they didn’t invite him. The establishment is trying to erase him from history.

Boys more at risk from Pfizer vax than from Covid: Study:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... ests-study

I don’t think I would be rushing to get my own kids vaccinated.

Getting COVID is a much higher risk for getting blood clots than taking the vaccine That's probably bad math. Because, the odds of getting COVID are not 100%. I don't know all the numbers but if risk of clots is 3x higher from Covid than from the vax, but the chance of getting Covid is 10%, then th...

No, I don't know how VG proposes to handle any of it. I don't know if we are interested but it would be nice to know more. I should look into it at some point. I wouldn't view it as part of the pp at all. More like a business investment.

I’ll be interested in seeing how this goes over at Bogleheads. Clip from an email from vanguard: Now you can access private equity through Vanguard Vanguard is proud to partner with HarbourVest, a world-class global private equity firm, to offer you a unique opportunity to access this distinct and g...

I'm suspicious of Biden's motives, but so far I have to strongly applaud his stated explanations for getting us out of there, and his disdain for remaking nations in our image. And of course Lindsay Graham is very angry. https://babylonbee.com/news/republican-politicians-vow-to-get-real-mad-and-stuf...

I have never heard of such a strategy, but after your post, I will watch a couple of videos on YouTube about this topic, you have seriously interested me in this. In general, I have developed my own strategy for buying cryptocurrency. I do not buy an expensive cryptocurrency like bitcoin and so on....