For me the same, EU-PP was even worse .
So, if I may rephrase dualstow slogan - let 2023 be the year of 'still-working'. Heck, I was supposed to drink margaritas already ...

Happy new year and bon voyage with your PP. I wish I've started my PP now... but it is what it is.. we're just playing the cards we're dealt...

Yesterday, was contemplating a bit the Yale of Beaufort , from The Queen’s Beasts Collection . However, do not think that my diversification goes that far to get it - in other words, might be slightly hard to sell if I may need to (frankly I do not bet on such unfortunate event). At the end got some...

Indeed, its back and forth here in Europe, too. Its resembling a sine wave, hopefully with lower and lower amplitude... People do not take too much attention of it anymore, guess already tired enough (and the most vulnerable passed away anyway, at least where I live.. BG is still second after Peru i...

Here they sell them in transparent hard plastic covers. All the coins I've seen do not look like they were ever taken out from those shells. Personally, I havent touch directly any of my coins. Have heard from my seller that if there are any signs of finger touches, scratches etc. that would immedia...

Does anyone else go with 1 ounce gold maple leafs as their physical bullion of choice? ^-^ gold.jpg Have only 4 of those. Try to keep myself well diversified in the types of coins I buy... might be just one of the many non-sense things I follow, who knows... Oddly enough, I still do not own Krugers...

Hey there, I live in EU also. What you may consider as part of the diversification game - put some cash into US(D) related stuff. I have US-PP on top of my EU-PP (or other way round), that make me feels better - you know the theory is more leaning to US(D) PP as the one that is supposed to work, not...

You see the enormous impact of posting here... Holy crap.

It seems that b-ok.org is a pirate site. None of the money you're paying goes to the authors. You might as well just go to a "real" pirate site and get it for free if you're going to use b-ok.org. Nope, I did not say that I am paying to that site (which is indeed pirate site) - see what I...

vnatale wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 9:39 am Just did a search on Rickards and looks like all his books are available?

... and many more ...

vnatale wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 9:26 am This is what you see once you start the registration process:

Have never bothered making a registration, guest account has served me well for years (and I can't download and read more than 5 books a day, anyway

Guys, do you have an access to b-ok.org ? This is the largest electronic library I have an access to, there are gazillion of books for free (well to be precise - a tad below 11.5 millions) - on financial matters too. To be honest, quite often I download a book and have a glimpse - if I really like w...

vnatale wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 11:26 am Does your country have any government investment similar to our TIPS?

Nope, we don't, though Germany, Spain, France and Italy have for example.

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 6:27 am I saw one of these at the Delaware "punkin chunkin" several years ago. Awesome machine.

Haha, was not aware, thanks for sharing. People are just awesome inventing that kind of stuff, indeed.

I do hope you and your family are doing alright, Vil Thanks DS. Not sure we are doing alright honestly. Definitely I/we are not desperate, but anxious for sure. Most likely I've mentioned it, but my plan was to do an early retirement, which unfortunately might not happen in the very near future. Of...

Yup, that's it. In general, you have 2 types of airguns - 1) when the projectile is being pushed by some kind of spring , and 2) shooting force is generated by compressed air that's being released through a tiny port with (sometimes) enormous pressure. There is really a wide variety of such guns.. A...

Agree? Not? Bought a new bipod for my hunting crossbow and looking for new powerful hunting PCP (note: here firearms are forbidden unfortunately and the one my old man is in posession of, is rather outdated, note2: AGT Vulcan 3 looks as a decent candidate). That's the rebalancing I do at the moment...

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 10, 2022 2:00 pm ZFL, which is essentially the Canadian benchmark equivalent of TLT, is down by 23.82% year to date.

And DBXG (Eurozone gov bond 25+) is -39.19% YTD. Interesting times we live in.

Official inflation here is 18%. Guess unofficial is twice than that. Nice, ah? Today I realized that the local store that's normally quite busy during early morning hours has almost no clients now, the same time. Wondering how far will that go in EU...? ECB is lead by bunch of morons ... Still housi...

In days like this really wondering where all hedge funds money goes, if not in cash or in short positions...

How many folks around here are actually in the PP? I can only think of maybe 3 folks? Do you have statistically significant data-set for your conclusion ? ;D I have US-PP since 2.5 years, only contributing 1/year to keep the percentages. Oddly enough I do not even have a look at it. I guess my VP i...

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Jun 10, 2022 1:39 pm Love that black knight.
I did order a krug today.

Guys, what's the spread you 'enjoy' as of now with Apmex (?) ?

The dealer I use (=Tavex, one of the biggest ones in EU, and leader in Northern Europe) is now on 2.7% for some of the bullion coins..

And yes, while bond prices do decline at times, they're still less risky than stocks, especially if the average duration is not too long. Thanks, that's clear. What seems I cannot really accept and digest is that at the moment who's losing less is actually the winner. Still have the childish belief...

So he suggests a milder glide path for the red zone As pre-retirement I was genuinely interested on this, however if I can recall from this article (which you shared in the past if I am not mistaken) the glide path was in essence - move some of the stock allocation to bonds when you are in the red ...

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 8:01 am let 2022 be the year of GOLD

If 2022 is not the year of GOLD, it would be definitely the year of pain.