This is an interesting article:

Why I Hope to Die at 75 by Ezekiel Emanuel

Sorry that it doesn't exactly help with the task of finding LTC options.

If nothing else, good fences make good neighbors. A good fence clarifies things.

Some interesting thoughts in the first part of this Bloomberg column:

You Have to Pay the Right Person

I figured out what's going on with this. Google Finance now uses PHYS.U for Sprott Physical Gold Trust. PHYSX is PIA High Yield Fund Institutional Class.

So just enter PHYS.U and your spreadsheet should update again.

But quickly close it before you see your new total portfolio value.

It’s good to diversify, but not at the cost of realizing enough gains to reach your goals that only will come with a higher stock allocation. I am quoting Budd here to illustrate a point, but my comments are not specifically about or directed toward him. Something I have noticed over the years is t...

I’ve sat through a decline in Gold on par with any market crash. I also had about 900K invested in 2008 so I think I qualify as living through a market crash. I didn't say you hadn't lived through one, I said you had not been sufficiently scared by one. And 900K invested when you were 11 years youn...

Budd has not yet been sufficiently scared by a major market crash, that's really all there is to it.

Yeah, I'm not sure what's up with that. I just paste the current price into my spreadsheet temporarily so that it can update and then ctrl+z to go back to the formula hoping that the issue will eventually get resolved. Or at least that's what I would do if I was checking, which of course I am not......

2. Intelligent men are rightly scared to go to college in the US because of the complete lack of due process if they are accused of sexual misbehavior. N=1 and all, but as the father of a teenage son who is starting to look at colleges, I don't think (and he and his friends don't appear to think) t...

2. Intelligent men are rightly scared to go to college in the US because of the complete lack of due process if they are accused of sexual misbehavior. N=1 and all, but as the father of a teenage son who is starting to look at colleges, I don't think (and he and his friends don't appear to think) t...

Short list here: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-racist-meme/ Are they accurate? If so I would think he's got racist/bigoted tendencies, at least at times seemingly more when it affects him personally. Then again so do a lot of older people. Just how they grew up. Some recognized it ...

Whatever, guys. I just expected a little bit more class from a president, regardless of whether what he is doing is good or bad for the country. I’m not sure I will ever understand why people expect “class” and “moral leadership” from politicians. Sure, it would be nice, but just look at the action...

Based on my experience, it's as good as it sounds. 1 - Prices do reflect fluctuations. 2 - Auto-renew is easy and hassle-free (though it's been a couple years since I was doing this). I recently sold some T-bills at Fidelity. It took one day for the transaction to settle and one more day to EFT to m...

Cortopassi wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 11:25 am I've been Keto/Paleo on and off for the past couple years.

I like to avoid unnecessary volatility with a strategy I call "Half-Assed Paleo".

It's kind of a mix of low-carb and cognitive dissonance.

Maybe when politics gets to be too much, it’s time to go see what the markets are doing.

Now Trump’s support of the New England Patriots... that is truly concerning.

This story says Trump is considering a military option in Venezuela but I'm hoping he's just trying humor Lindsey Graham who would probably be very much in favor. If there is a military option I'll be quickly switching from being a lukewarm Trump supporter to the "impeach the mother*****"...

I recently sold T bills in my Fidelity account. It took one day for the cash to be available to withdraw and then one more day for the EFT to my checking account at another bank. Pretty quick and easy.

That’s one of the reasons why my relationship with social media is entirely read-only.

The internet was the best when blogs and forums ruled, right before social media exploded.

How much flexibility, though, fp? You don’t have to have the 25%, but you need to have the 4. Remember all those threads like “pp with no cash”? I don’t know what that is, but it’s clear from the radio archives that it’s not a pp. A little more solid than state of mind. Well, as long as one self-id...

I think of the Permanent Portfolio more as a state of mind than strict adherence to 4x25. So while I might initially explain it to someone using the orthodox 4x25 allocation, I would explain that there's also room for flexibility depending on each individual's needs.

Cortopassi wrote: ↑Sat Dec 29, 2018 11:17 am I have seen enough, regardless of what good Trump accomplishes, that I hate his style. Substance might be good, style sucks.

I’m convinced that style is all that a large portion of America wants.

“The Fake News Media” is a subset of “The Media”.

Thus, calling the Fake News Media “the enemy of the people” is not the same as calling “The Media” the enemy of the people.

I read Bob Woodward's book Fear, and assuming his sources and details are accurate... It might be worth reading some critical reviews of Fear and Woodward's other books for additional input, if you haven't already. I will. And I assume it will dispute a lot of the accounts. The problem is, you can ...

Cortopassi wrote: ↑Fri Dec 21, 2018 8:16 am I read Bob Woodward's book Fear, and assuming his sources and details are accurate...

It might be worth reading some critical reviews of Fear and Woodward's other books for additional input, if you haven't already.