I support the President because I don't want to be forced to sell my NBA team.

I haven't done the specific research to see if this is feasible, or what the costs are, because it doesn't apply to me and it won't be an easy calculation, but what if you used options and/or inverse ETFs to delay rebalancing? For example, suppose you bought some double/triple inverse stock ETF with...

Let's say you're king for a day.  Do you abolish the entire government, if you knew it wouldn't reform itself?  How do you go about doing that? I'd have much more fun pretending gravity would cease to exist and plan out what kind of rocket ship to Mars I'm going to build. It's also a lot more likel...

1. Since the fetus didn't have any option not to be there, it is clear to me anyway that its rights (whatever they may be) don't depend on whether it is there due to consensual sex or rape. Accordingly, if we are to be consistent, we must have the same position regardless of the source of the impre...

Buckyballs were small spherical magnets you could build into various shapes and play with. The government decided they were too dangerous to be allowed to be sold on the market due to the possibility of a child swallowing one and later swallowing a second. If they are swallowed separately, the theor...

Tyler and TripleB, you guys have Max Roth-Fu. So no need for me to go through the back door and I can keep my simple little withdrawal plan the way it is. It's weird thinking about this stuff in a way. I mean, I would be silly not to have a plan but the only way to really know if it's a good one is...

TripleB, Can you please suggest a good resource (book or online) that will help me really understand the Roth IRA conversion? I am deficient in that area of investing knowhow. Seems that whenever I look into it a bit, I find that it doesn't make sense in my situation. But I hear of so many people d...

How do I opt out of government enforcing my contracts with others?  How do I opt out of the taxes that pay for that enforcement? You currently can't opt out of the taxes that pay for that enforcement. In Libertarian Magical Fantasy Land, there would be no income tax because it would be unnecessary....

MangoMan, Aren't you self-employed? Not sure why I thought that might be the case, but as such you would be eligible for an Individual 401(k) Roth contribution, I believe. I only found out about those last year. They are sometimes called something different but it's an account that allows self-empl...

I have decided what order I will draw them down. It's elaborate and intricate. The strategy involves Roth IRA Laddering whereby I take the bulk of my money needed to live on each year from the Roth IRA. Then I perform a Roth IRA conversion, up to the limit of the standard deduction and personal exem...

TB, So why do we need government to enforce contracts, rather than just having contracts formed more on the basis of knowing that the businesses and individuals that don't honor their contracts won't profit long-term? This is just effectively another form of regulation, paid for by taxes taken from...

To be clear, I believe the government has zero place in regulating private enterprise. There's no government regulations on private enterprise that have a positive impact on people. The role of government is enforcing contracts. If a private business made promises to a consumer, and failed to meet t...

There's very few decisions to be made with the PP once you have it set up and decide on using it. The one thing that you can play with is how you split your assets across types of accounts. Most of us have some portion of our money in Roth IRA/401ks, Tax Deferred IRA/401ks, and Taxable Accounts. I l...

The last 2 years we spent a month in central Europe (Austria, Czech Republic, and upper Bavaria) vacationing.  Obviously there are a lot of great sites to see but the small things that exude Old World charm I noticed really make this a great getaway.  In Prague especially you notice: Absolutely no ...

I read and re-read the Wikipedia entry on Gibson's Paradox 5x. It's poorly written and confusing. I'm not sure what I read. Here's what I can offer with respect to gold and interest rates and inflation: Step 1) The government (not on a gold standard) prints more fiat currency than they should. Infla...

Moda, You mention many problems caused by monopolistic market power both explicitly and indirectly (e.g. the genetically modified food problem is caused by a Montsanto monopoly). I propose that no monopolies can exist outside of government intervention. The free market won't allow it. I also propose...

If we (as a hypothetical libertarian society) decide to intervene with ISIS, we need to look not only at what is seen, but also what is not seen. It's not "free" to go to war with ISIS. It costs money. It costs time. It costs lives. A little girl's daddy will be killed. Probably several. M...

Liberals are smarter than everyone else and know what's best for everyone, as a collective. They know so well, that they are willing to point guns at you to force you to act in a way that they know is right... Well, they won't personally point guns at you, because they don't like guns, but they'll p...

Reub wrote: Thank you for that!  Now if I could only find the darn charger for my Kindle!

It's a micro USB. Very industry standard.

There's a bunch of books that were released on Amazon e-book Kindle format over the last week that previously were not available. MediumTex or Craig: Please edit this post to include your Amazon referral link in each of the below so the forum can benefit: Rule Your World! - Previously only a CD audi...

Pointedstick wrote:

l82start wrote: we should book a cruse liner.. a crowed of pp enthusiasts an a big boat... what could possibly go wrong?

Probably a tragic boating accident!

I know many former firearms owners that experienced tragic boating accidents over the years.

You guys know how when the government tells you to do something, and you refuse, they throw you in jail, and if you resist, they murder you? So when the government makes a demand on a citizen, the citizen either immediately complies or is locked in a cage like an animal or given a funeral. Well, whe...

My money comment simply was trying to draw attention to the way in which money can benefit our economy but also inhibit human productivity and labor. I was merely drawing attention to the fact that if one takes money out of the picture and isolates the particular situation at the VA at that particu...

The occupy movement was filled with a lot of hippy fringe liberals that don't know Econ very well. If we are talking about the fringe idiocy of a group, then libertarians don't know Econ either... They're just wannabe drunk driver sociopaths that simply want to be able to do whatever they want to d...

This is why I don't understand money....there are people available to install solar panels which is a positive....and doctors available to treat sick people. Money just confuses things for me. If those people weren't installing the solar panels, what would they have been doing that day? Probably si...