It’s funny reading the above because I came here to ask if you enjoyed last night’s ball game, Vin.
I just saw the highlights on the news.

The missus has *never* driven. Doesn’t have a license.

Why "regime," Jack?

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 28, 2025 9:34 am Dualstow, you haven't driven in decades??

That's right. I stopped when I moved overseas. Spent a few years overseas and when I came back to the U.S., I always lived in big cities.
Nowadays, if I *really* need a car I take a taxi, Lyft or Uber.

Doesn’t sound like a fun day O0 A lot of people don’t really cement directions until they drive, even if they pay attention as passengers. I learned my route to work and back, and a few other routes, but I haven’t driven in decades. As a pedestrian, I still have a poor sense of direction and orienta...

Completely tangential: your mention of Meet the Press reminded me of the music "The Mission" by John Williams. It was commissioned by NBC News in 1985. The first movement contains the iconic trumpet fanfare used for the nightly news, and the fourth and final movement was (still is?) used ...

I can’t read on the bus either. I get carsick. I can only imagine how many books you’ve read in 70+ years. By the time I got my driver's license I was lost 1 mile from my house because as soon as I got in the family car my head went down to read and it did not come up until we got to the destinatio...

I can’t read on the bus either. I get carsick.
I can only imagine how many books you’ve read in 70+ years.

yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 22, 2025 11:58 am I

Re your post in b’h, Vinny, I am so envious of your reading speed. A 300-page book in a couple hours?! Do you retain it?
If I were you I’d read a book a day and I’d be in heaven.

Smithers, have you resurrected the All-Terrain portfolio?
I thought you scrapped it. Or maybe just the book?

I feel like this applies to all portfolios. Once you have a ridiculous amount of money, perhaps some amounts should be specific minimum $(Euro) amounts and not necessarily %. Some very wealthy people purportedly keep all stocks and can live off the dividend payments. At that point I’d rather have a...

I feel like this applies to all portfolios. Once you have a ridiculous amount of money, perhaps some amounts should be specific minimum $(Euro) amounts and not necessarily %. Some very wealthy people purportedly keep all stocks and can live off the dividend payments. At that point I’d rather have a ...

… issue for me with bitcoin is that of being passed "dirty" coins - historic trail of having been used for illicit purposes or tax avoidance ...etc - resulting in the value being lost/frozen/seized. I wonder if that has actually happened. So far, search results say that bitcoins are gener...

Yeah, they’ve been chattering about it on b’h

stpeter wrote: ↑Wed Oct 22, 2025 5:09 pm …
Indeed, I've been thinking about switching to what I'm calling the Golden Dragon (since it has bigger wings than the Golden Butterfly):
..

Dibs on Phoenix, especially if my portfolio crashes and then rises from the ashes.

There used to be this sweet Linux replacement for ChromeOS on Chromebooks called GalliumOS.

I really liked it until I realized I couldn’t get it to connect with wifi, even after investing in a dongle and getting a bit of help from the author who sang Gallium’s praises

eh, I’ve been paying more like US$100 but thanks, Mountaineer.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 21, 2025 11:00 pm ChromeOS is probably my favourite Linux distro at this point

Just need a robust Alt key

ohhhh. I thought you guys were talking 2025.

Yeah, I mean if the extreme duration of long bonds is supposed to swoop in and save you when 1 or 2 other assets are plummeting and give you a smoother ride (favorable ulcer index at Tyler’s Portfolio Charts website), BND is not going to help. But, the recent post on b’heads notwithstanding (“BND st...

What I read was that it was Germany, but from vaults in Paris and New York.
Also, Serbia and Italy and earlier, Poland and Romania.

I guess in a severe inflationary scenario it could be considered playing with fire? versus 30-year treasury bonds, though? Aren’t 30YR’s for deflation? I mean I wouldn’t choose BND for the bond component of a pp, where I hold t-bills and treasury bonds, but as a non-stock holding in most portfolios...

I don’t know. I’ve only bought ten-year-old and older computers lately.

I’ve never heard BND referred to as playing with fire before

Good timing indeed. Well done, guys.
It’s also higher than I ever dreamed or expected, even after this 5-6% hit.

Behold, some miners that I was required to buy for Dad per his newsletter. (They’re all still up overall, though).