Basically at $1900 now. Unbelievable.

Bitcoin is at $1525 right now. I wish I could have doubled my money or more over the last year but I still don't understand it as an investment.


Golden Rule #9: Don't ever do anything you don't understand.

if i had to guess i would say the retail property bubble formed at the same time as the housing bubble, it just never had the visibility or the crash/correction that the housing bubble had when it popped. the gradual economic trend toward on-line shopping directly impacts the commercial real estate...

Here is another perspective: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/04/08/syria-it-doesnt-matter-who-used-the-chemical-weapons-the-issue-is-extremism-and-stability/ Wow. I didn't really know how I felt about the whole thing until watching that CNN clip there. Not the response they were expecting...

Which brokerage are they with? Mine are up in value in Vanguard.

I don't catch up on movies so much anymore but had a rare chance to see Get Out.

It was a really good break from the movies of late that all feel the same.

Awesome. Thank you.

@LC475
Quite depressing but I can't say I can disagree.


Hopefully someone can advise us that medicine has improved by an order of magnitude.

@ dualstow
Thanks for boglehead thread. After reading about 4 week transfer it is probably not worth hassle for me after all.

...but, what are you buying 7-year instruments for? Just curious. After all, the 30-year bonds are not bought for their yield. I understand this thought because of the possible capital gains (or loses) but I think I have come to disagree on ignoring the yield. The truth is that you are locking in t...

I was surprised to see this high of a rate on 7 year CDs considering that is what the 30 year treasury is currently paying. https://www.andrewsfcu.org/personal/checking-and-savings/share-certificates.html If I am reading the website correctly, it looks like these can be bought within an IRA. This is...

The elephant in the room is that most people should not be invested in financial markets. I never thought about that. I don't think my grandparents every bought stocks. They did just fine on bank CDs and Treasury savings bonds. On further thoughts, does Dodd Frank prevent the banks from being able ...

After a little thought, is it as simple as debt payments being baked into the cost of those things? http://www.macrotrends.net/1381/debt-to-gdp-ratio-historical-chart I wonder if local governments and corporate debt would look similar. I wonder if it was as common historically as it is today for loc...

This shouldn't be a criminal issue. It is a Civil issue. Sue them.

If you are in the Army and frugal with saving discipline. I would definitely rent.

The way buying would get you ahead is through leverage which is also risk.

I bought finally for family stability and feel like I paid a premium for it.

Thank you for your service.

There may be a good scanning solution for chromebooks but I haven't needed it because I just use my phone for scanning to google drive. There are brother printers that have google drive built in: http://www.brother-usa.com/connect/web/google-drive.aspx BTW, I think the DNS is broken to forum from ht...

dualstow wrote:

whatchamacallit wrote:and then there was Chromebook...


Seriously though I love how simple Chromebooks are.
..
I haven't been able to see it in action /quote]
You haven't been able to see a Chromebook in action,
or an elderly person working on one?

I haven't seen an elderly person use one.

and then there was Chromebook...


Seriously though I love how simple Chromebooks are. I am technical but work on computers all day so I just want the simplicity in my own time.

I haven't been able to see it in action but I think the less technical elderly would have a really hard time breaking them.

I don't see why they would sell longer duration bonds unless they really think interest rates are going back up. I would need some high rates like 6%+ to make me buy.

Thank you for analysis tarentola

While I still have some LTTs , I am a heretic by only buying EE bonds in their place until we get back to 4%.

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@Austen
I love my chromebook and never use my Windows desktop except to print on my older USB printer.

Two things not so obvious.

You need a Google print capable printer to print.

4 GB over 2 GB will be much better.

A light went of in my head on how a Federal Reserve note and a Dollar are different from reading some of TennPennPa's link. A Federal Reserve note is the physical form of a reserve balance that is redeemable for a Dollar. When a Federal Reserve note goes into the world, the reserve balance of the ba...

This 2012 article found qtrade to be the cheapest for government bond commisions: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ideas/you-too-can-be-a-bond-trader/article546610/ The first bond was a Government of Canada issue, 4 per cent coupon, maturity date June 1, 2017. Quotes for a bo...

Zombie bump

Looks like this is where it ended:

S&P 500  2,043.94

30 Year    3.02

Gold        $1061

Cash        0.14

Bitcoin      $433