And at this rate I will break even by April 1st... (No kidding!)

Sorry Xan... I was thinking nominal growth as that would exclude another assumption (inflation).

No doubt this is HBPP heresy but it would be fun to see the range of results from the wisdom of the crowds...

"If you have the bond in your own name and not your kid's, then if you spend the money on their higher education, the interest is tax-free. (There are income limitations on this, unfortunately, and of course the act of cashing out the bonds makes it harder to stay under the limit.)" Would...

A while back I downloaded an Excel spreadsheet that apparently used macros to grab current Yahoo Finance stock quotes to populate the spreadsheet. It also had some nifty pie charts for allocation %s, etc. The spreadsheet appears to have "protected" the macros as I cannot seem to access the...

My daughter lives in Knoxville. It's a pretty quaint little college town (Univ of TN and ORNL) on a beautiful river with good seasons. Cost of living is very inexpensive and there is no state income tax. Don't know about the rural/acreage situation but I suspect it is very reasonable. You are less t...

130,000,000 years ago and 7,642,221,985,000,000,000,000 miles away... Dang!

"Mute" is the operative word... both in declines and advances... The HBPP is the Monroe shock absorber of portfolio strategies...

Off topic (well off media actually) but I just heard about a new fictional book by Lionel Shriver that might be a fun summer read for those of us with a more apocalyptic bent. Here is the top Amazon review: Lionel Shriver's new novel, "The Mandibles: A Family 2029-2047" is captivating, and...

You might find some earlier posts on the Canadian PP interesting...

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A picture is worth a thousand words... A variable chart is worth a thousand pictures...I think a great place to suggest to "seekers" is to send them to Tyler's excellent portfoliocharts.com site and let them play with the various portfolios or plug in what they are now doing and see how th...

Many Thanks also, Xan... This forum has been part of my daily dose of sanity routine for over 5 years and like many others I would greatly miss the excellent and stimulating dialogue...

dualstow, can you print the WSJ article to a pdf file and then post the pdf here?

It is so ironic that since Apple's 1984 Super Bowl ad introducing the Macintosh as the liberator from Big Brother, Apple has morphed into the an Orwellian Nanny control freak that keeps you tethered to the Apple Mothership... That's why I call them Crapple...

I am sitting on about 35% cash right now but it is very tough to jump back in and rebalance with everything so "high"...

This may have been discussed elsewhere but it appears there is not only the a risk in keeping 25% of your assets in dollar-dominated currency or equivalent but now that "currency" is being increasingly pushed to 100% digital.  Bad for the bad guys but also bad for those who may not want to...

At age 64 and having just survived a 20% layoff in my company (an oil & gas firm), I have been more or less forced to consider my vocational mortality far more than I would care to... One of the biggest obstacles is that I don't know how well I could handle the prospect of the loss of a steady i...

Tyler, I was wondering if you had given any more thought to a suggestion I made a while back (below)? One suggestion: Would it be difficult to post the last year few years of performance on the funnel chart (ie last 12 months under Year Invested 1, last 24 months under Year Invested 2 and so on sort...

PS, I just created a new post on this subject before I read this...

Interested to know your thoughts...

As a petroleum engineer nearing retirement (maybe sooner than I would chose), I have been taking more than a passing interest in the falling oil prices of late.  It strikes me that unlike say gold, oil is currently a necessary global consumable commodity which cannot be replaced at near the current ...

Merry Christmas!...  Beautiful pic!

Just curious for an update on people's experience with FolioInvesting...

Thanks!

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Tyler, awesome charts!...  There isn't a day that goes by where I am not glancing at a printout of one of your funnel charts!...  I find the funnel chart very soothing when the wheels seem to be flying off the wagon... One suggestions: Would it be difficult to post the last year few years of perform...