By the way, I thought your native tongue would be really close to Russian, but I guess not? Both use Slavonic/Cyrillic alphabet, but more different words than common ones. Looking back, satellite tv does more for the West vs China, Russia and Iran than missiles ever could O0 For sure In general, I ...

How do you see this conflict ending, Vil? You know more than most of us, and I respect your opinion. Of course, nobody knows the what the future brings (that's why there is such a gyro forum ;) ). Though certainly the smell of this war has been floating around since several years and many people ha...

Yes, indeed guys - keep commenting the ultra-lefts and do not bother about things you hardly understand. It's like I do comment the Super Bowl or the quality of Texas veal. ;D The war is the same as it was 3 weeks ago - man dying and their families are spread around Poland, Moldova, Romania and Bulg...

I am genuinely interested what kind of advices you will receive- guess you will receive more of the same that you've already read in here. Personally, I have realized that the answer of most of those questions (yeah, you are not alone) is that there is no answer. PP can deep dive the next years. It ...

See the top contenders in the list, sorted DESC by deaths/100K pop: TopContenders.jpg I do not really get how that small ( according to what I read in this thread) difference in deaths/100K between BG (452 deaths/100K) and USA (255 deaths/100K) is making such a difference? I guess its due to the pop...

After having some time to think about it, I think the Golden Butterfly might be the ticket for investing my dad's estate money. This is how I ended investing my EUR stuff( on top of pure US PP kept in USD). Hegding US PP was a stupid initial move. Though I keep less stocks than pure GB (i.e. 30-35%...

I've been investing since the early 80s, so I've had a 40 year bull market in stocks and bonds. Actually, I feel a bit lucky in that aspect, that I started with US PP at the end of 2019/very beginning of 2020, which turned to be quite a good year (~15% for me). Before that I've never invested in bo...

buddtholomew wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 8:23 am Stocks down
Gold down
Bonds down

And if we assume there is no some staggering lack of liquidity across the markets - where all those money will go ?

... This is why kitces did his article on the red zone . That is when you are pre retirement through the early years of retirement and dollars are at their peak ….a hit can be years of money . Indeed, Kitces article is a good one. For any forum newcomers it would sound like - if you are young and h...

I have high 6 digit sum in US PP and feel just fine. Though have other assets (land inclusive) too. Actually, the more I have the more risk averse I get. It's definitely one thing to lose 30% on 5000 USD, and just another on a million for example.. But that's just me.

Morgan Stanley predictions , I have no f*cking clue. Now reading "Trading Sardines" (by Linda Raschke, guess you know who she is). She confirms one can make millions in short term market moves, though long time predictions are next to impossible. She credits Taleb's 'swans' too ;D By the w...

Approx. 4% for me. The wage income for the last year was kind of a very good one, according to statistics I've seen I am in the top 20% of US households. So, personally I do not care too much about PP - its doing its business, I am doing mine.

God damn Vil, put down that Doom Juice and pick up a Hope Soda. I prefer the good old Reality-style Beer (which is the drink that lead me to PP and this forum, not the Doom Juice or the Hope Soda ;) ) On another note, here, in BG there are places for any taste, the ones you've mentioned are more fo...

Vil, here's an article I just saw about Bulgaria. Interesting! https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-pandemic-gives-new-hope-to-one-of-the-worlds-fastest-shrinking-countries-11640784601?st=qbzewo9kx8j3lx7&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink Xan , thanks for sharing. Well.. while there is certainl...

Vil, I know this is pathetic but I found exactly one episode of Craig's own podcast: the first one. I have a lot of Harry's Money Talk episodes, but only one Craig. Far from pathetic. I guess Craig himself might be the only source of those and tend to believe can reach him outside the premises of t...

https://dualmomentumsystems.com/?post=a-look-at-triad https://dualmomentumsystems.com/?post=permanent-portfolio-vs-triad This is the one you invented, right ? Though there is still a mystery behind it: Triad splits the portfolio into 1/3rds. Based on the lookback methodology (which I am not divulgi...

regardless of your position on the vaccine and virus, Well, not sure it was ever mentioned by me, or you got the wrong impression from some of my posts, but I contracted Covid last spring (kids brought it from school). Afterwards got fully vaccinated too. Even though I still have good enough immune...

Yes, its kind of unbelievable. Reading this thread I suspect we (i.e. humans, supposedly there are no robots posting here, even having some repeatable statements here and there ;) ) fall prey of what I call "context-bias" - we think what we see outside our window is the weather all over th...

.. whether equity-heavy portfolios like his will experience regression to the mean. On a funny note, a very old post (dragoncar, 2015, but I vividly recall it), related to what might be referred as the "Golden Bitching"-PP portoflio ;D I find bitching is just a regular part of the PP. It'...

A close friend of mine is just now visiting Sweden. He reports that there is no masking whatsoever, and everything appears to be "normal". Come on, Swedish folks are amateurs - read on below ... Moreover, they have 80+ % of vaccinated people ! Here, we have just a bit over 30% of fully va...

I moved to a PP in order to protect the wealth already created as I hopefully glide towards retirement. +1 gazillion, exactly the same reason why I landed on PP. Moreover, still can't see (drug dealing also not being an option) how I can earn from investing the amount of money I am getting from my ...

No worries, I am not in hurry. In any case your willingness to help is highly appreciated

The MMM I know (always thought its some Canadian Boggleheads version), ERE - completely ignorant about, will check it. Thanks for those. EDIT: Had a glance over couple of topics on the ERE site and the suggested reads ("How I found freedom in unfree world" being one of those). A bit too ex...

Krieg , what all those TLAs that you discovered mean - ERE, MMM ? I wish to discover them too .. MJ , thanks for sharing this article. I can't understand how with the bond tent and V-shaped stock allocation, portfolio continues its almost exponential growth - maybe higher annual contributions done ...

• Craig was a guest on what podcast? Yes, he was, long ago. Actually, even not one, but two appearances - thevoluntarylife podcast (there is also link to it from AdOrientem's blogspot...) and also this one - survival podcast . As for surival podcast can recall a very early discussion between you an...