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...

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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...

Side topic - in my line of work, I correspond with highly formally educated people. When they include titles like "MBA" or "PhD" in their email signature, it rubs me the wrong way.  I can understand it for Medical Doctors and Attorneys because their degrees are tied to their regu...

Do you hang your college / grad school /other school diplomas up either at home or work? If so, how do you set them up? I've always thought it was stupid but now I'm reconsidering. Maybe some really high end, fancy wood frames. If I'm going to be pretentious by hanging up my degrees, I might as well...

As a libertarian who always sides with free market, I concede there's an interesting point here made by the statists. As an individual, I can freely decide whether I want to buy bottled water or forgo bottled water at the market prices. As an individual, I can choose to move to a geographic location...

How do you hold your coins that you dip in acetone? Gloved hands? Some type of pliers?

There's no argument that the total is the same either way.  Of course it is. What I'm claiming is that you're out of balance doing it that way.  You're overweight on the assets that have less tax due and underweight on assets that have more tax due.  When I have some time later I'll see if I can co...

in the case of a Roth IRA/Roth 401k, $1 in there is more valuable than $1 of taxable assets due to the value of the tax shelter. This is the primary reason that got me thinking about doing a separate PP in each account (by "account" I mean tax treatment class), which I ultimately did. Try...

Maintaining multiple PPs in each of your investment vehicles seems overcomplicated, expensive from a time and cost perspective, and has an opportunity cost of not maximizing the potential for maximum tax benefits. Instead, consider all of your investment vehicles/locations as contributors to your gi...

Craig, I believe in your theory in principle and I do think some form of retirement savings stealing is likely, although I don't believe it will be pure seizure. I think it will be something in the form you described such as a new 10% annual tax on all retirement accounts or reduced tax breaks for t...

Anyone bother using something like airtite individual holders on silver coins? It seems like a large expense relative to the value of the coin, as compared to gold, where the cost of the airtite is the same but the value of the coin is significantly higher. Then again, silver oxidizes much easier th...

I suspected something was up when his CompuServe email bounced back as undeliverable. I tried dialing into his BBS but the line was busy.

Can you explain what a "Back door Roth contribution" is? I'm 55 now and would love to get more of my retirement savings in my Roth & solo 401(k) Roth before I need to get access to these funds. I have the majority of my retirement savings in a regular IRA because the tax deductions we...

Barrett, Call ETrade. They have a fantastic Solo 401k plan. As far as Vanguard, they do not allow rollovers INTO their solo 401k which makes them worthless to me. Fidelity does offer rollovers into the 401k. This is important for back door Roth contributions. ETrade offers a plan that lets you do wh...