https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/dup ... _homeless/

Ill change my mind and vote for him if he does it. The homeless apologists grind my gears.

Just vanguard. Too big to fail

Half vanguard US and half international. Because my income depends on the US economy I diversify.

EDV for max volatility

Perth mint ETF is new

lol. I want to be 25% gold...but The Struggle is real

So youre not encouraging tax evasion. ok, is this service better than Perth Mint. Or is there a place in Canada where you can show up and get your gold. Anybody looked at Vancouver?

https://www.mint.ca/store/mint/about-th ... ge-7300012

taxation is theft? Throw the disabled into a volcano?

Yall arent even 4x25. "Variable portfolios"

So in the past REITs have been an uncorrelated diversifier in backtests? With financialization increasing, should we expect that to continue? They crashed with stocks in 08. Whats the macroeconomic/real world explanation for why they might outperform total stock market. Leverage? Companies leverage ...

I didnt read the article, but increasing non-monetary use of gold might screw with the PP philosophy?

"The growing demand for gold as a conductive metal used in phones and other electronic products has helped spawn a deadly illegal trade that’s harder to track than other black-market commodities like blood diamonds or drugs." https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/the-weekly/gold-apple-iphone-...

Nothing wrong with indexing, unless its something indirect like people thinking stocks are safe now because they cant lose it all on a single bankruptcy. And Im not sure PE measurements are adjusting for buybacks. There is a persistent human bias to not want to buy companies with bad press (value). ...

> Because China. A once in 500 years favorable Black Swan event So Dalio would say theres a 500 year ultra-long term debt cycle. Bull markets don't die of old age, usually real world events. War, supply shocks. But to make his "economic machine" sine waves pretty, he asserts short term cyc...

His shtick is "cycles" but Australia hasn't had a recession in 30 years

tldw?

Sorry forgot to post this earlier

3 hours remaining, on the Left Coast: Free Beyond Burgers at Carls Jr, Thursday 8/15: https://www.reddit.com/r/Albuquerque/co ... mous_star/

Whys inflation bad for stocks. Prices go up nominally, profits go up nominally

Or was it wage inflation that was high...

> The book also does a nice demolition job on the Efficient Market Hypothesis

Summary?

Howbout a dark skin. And whats your avatar?

Is means testing for education and medicine a bad thing? You have more $ you pay more if you send your kids to a nice college. If you dont have kids, you pay less income tax toward education. If you decide to take the risk and not buy health insurance, you get means tested and pay the "inflated...

Most gold mines are outside the US. So as an American, no thanks. We could just stop printing dollars. "If we just froze the monetary base tomorrow then inflation would way undershoot expectations, we'd almost certainly get falling aggregate demand and the price level would subsequently fall. A...

> China hopes to replace the US dollar as the global reserve currency of choice Maybe. Yuan devaluation keeps real wages low, so you can employ more people. $15 minimum/mcdonalds wages in the US means the guy building US rail demands 30/hour, so infrastructure in the US is overpriced and therefore s...

WiseOne wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2019 6:04 pmchronic Lyme

Is it real?

Welcome to the forum OP
I use ibonds and Orion's 4% checking
With some effort you can buy more than 10k ibonds or EE bonds each year
https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=213142