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by stuper1
Thu Apr 06, 2023 1:18 pm
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Hedging Against U.S. Dollar Losing Global Reserve Status
Replies: 34
Views: 24739

Re: Hedging Against U.S. Dollar Losing Global Reserve Status

Seajay, thank you for your excellent comments. I found them very helpful, and I share many of your views. You mentioned investing in US land/home, global stocks, and gold. As a followup question, what about US bonds or global bonds? Did the prudent British investor have any of his/her money in bonds...
by stuper1
Wed Apr 05, 2023 12:57 pm
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Hedging Against U.S. Dollar Losing Global Reserve Status
Replies: 34
Views: 24739

Hedging Against U.S. Dollar Losing Global Reserve Status

We run pretty much a Golden Butterfly portfolio. We hope to retire in a few years. We don't really need any growth in our portfolio to make retirement possible, but we don't want to lose out to inflation and a little real growth would certainly help. My wife and I will have some pensions and Social ...
by stuper1
Wed Apr 05, 2023 11:36 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: How much to save for retirement
Replies: 101
Views: 74380

Re: How much to save for retirement

Sophie, Thanks for the helpful information you've provided here. You mentioned it's important to hire aides privately and not through an agency. I'm not clear on this terminology. When you say an "agency," are you talking about some kind of government agency or do you mean private agencies? For find...
by stuper1
Mon Apr 03, 2023 3:55 pm
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Simplifying fund choices for the PP/GB
Replies: 19
Views: 6696

Re: Simplifying fund choices for the PP/GB

Kevin K, you identified one thing that I'm not comfortable with, which is too much active management and corporate bonds in the Rollover IRA. I think this might be a better plan for the IRA: 10% IAUM (paper gold) 45% VBIAX (Vanguard Balanced Index Fund) 45% VWENX (Wellington Fund) With this idea, th...
by stuper1
Mon Apr 03, 2023 2:12 pm
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Simplifying fund choices for the PP/GB
Replies: 19
Views: 6696

Re: Simplifying fund choices for the PP/GB

I've been thinking about how to simplify things for my wife to be able to handle when I'm gone and still keep some of the benefits of the PP/GP philosophy. She's a smart, professional-career woman, but she doesn't have a lot of interest in maintaining financial stuff. I can teach her how to handle t...
by stuper1
Sat Mar 04, 2023 11:57 am
Forum: Gold
Topic: Why do they say gold isn't a hedge against inflation?
Replies: 17
Views: 6228

Re: Why do they say gold isn't a hedge against inflation?

British perspective since 1793 for 50/50 US$ invested in US stocks/gold. Where when gold was money (Sovereign gold One Pound coins pre 1930's) its assumed that they lent that gold (money) to the state, as a form of safe keeping of their gold coins - which in return they were paid interest. From 193...
by stuper1
Sat Mar 04, 2023 11:54 am
Forum: Stocks
Topic: Stock Picking in the PP
Replies: 33
Views: 17542

Re: Stock Picking in the PP

That's my question, though, is whether it fits in with the HBPP mentality. He seems to be saying to pick stocks with high risk/reward for better rebalancing opportunities. Would HB say to put all your stock allocation into SCV rather than splitting half and half between SCV and LCG? Or is there some...
by stuper1
Fri Mar 03, 2023 12:54 pm
Forum: Stocks
Topic: Stock Picking in the PP
Replies: 33
Views: 17542

Re: Stock Picking in the PP

Do you think splitting up your stock allocation into half total stock market index and half small cap value index is a move in the right direction in terms of Harry Browne's philosophy of using volatile stocks with high beta? Of course, this is the Golden Butterfly strategy, but of course each perso...
by stuper1
Thu Feb 09, 2023 3:54 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: The Peter Schiff portfolio: an evolutionary offshoot of the PP
Replies: 100
Views: 27572

Re: The Peter Schiff portfolio: an evolutionary offshoot of the PP

So the only portion in which you have gold is the income model?

I try to keep my gold at 15-20% myself. I agree with you it's a great diversifier and insurance asset, especially if you hold some physical. I just recently upped my physical amount, and I feel very good about that.
by stuper1
Thu Feb 09, 2023 3:11 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: The Peter Schiff portfolio: an evolutionary offshoot of the PP
Replies: 100
Views: 27572

Re: The Peter Schiff portfolio: an evolutionary offshoot of the PP

mathjak107, I noticed above you said you rebalanced out of short-term bonds and gold recently. Do you have a fixed percentage (or range) of gold that you keep in your portfolio? Or does your target gold percentage vary based on some factor(s)? Just curious to get your perspective on this. I like to ...
by stuper1
Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:25 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Replies: 1160
Views: 828166

Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

An interesting source of apparently evenly-biased information on Russia at Harvard University that I just came across: https://www.russiamatters.org/ Happy 2023 everybody. Here's hoping for good things for the Ukrainian people, whatever that means. If NATO is a good guy, I hope they win soon, so Ukr...
by stuper1
Thu Dec 29, 2022 5:57 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Replies: 1160
Views: 828166

Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

Well-known traitor to America, Tulsi Gabbard, speaks on the Ukraine conflict: https://twitter.com/tulsigabbard/status/1496695830715142148?lang=en https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/former-congresswoman-tulsi-gabbard-declares-us-has-turned-ukraine-conflict-into-a-proxy-war/news-story/d4ea4d97c78ca8...
by stuper1
Wed Dec 28, 2022 3:48 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Replies: 1160
Views: 828166

Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

That's the point here. Just because they couldn't have a little foresight to see that flirting with NATO was going to bring huge problems their way, doesn't mean that we should be shipping weapons over there to try to bail them out at the last minute. ... I'm not as cynical as some, but I certainly...
by stuper1
Wed Dec 28, 2022 3:10 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Replies: 1160
Views: 828166

Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

I would like to point out that the people who make these memes seem to want to have it both ways. Sometimes they want us to believe that Putin is a murderous psychopath who could vaporize Zelensky and all of Kyiv by pushing a single red button to launch a nuclear missile. Other times they want us t...
by stuper1
Wed Dec 28, 2022 3:00 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Replies: 1160
Views: 828166

Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

This is reality: the time when they should have been fighting for their independence was for the last 15 years. Tell it to the Ukrainians. What's the sign that people like to post at their desks? Something like: "Your lack of planning doesn't make it an emergency for me." That's the point here. Jus...
by stuper1
Wed Dec 28, 2022 2:41 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Replies: 1160
Views: 828166

Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

Western Ukraine is very anti-Russian. Eastern Ukraine leans more toward Russia. ... as socially engineered by Russia. Send in migrants, force schools to only teach in Russian and Russian doctrine. Inciting a war that started eight years ago in response to such a social engineered invasion. Not the ...
by stuper1
Wed Dec 28, 2022 2:24 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Replies: 1160
Views: 828166

Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

To take the Canada analogy a bit further. Let's say the French Canadians are now in charge of the government, and while they are getting in bed with China, they are mistreating the English-speaking Canadians. When America starts complaining about this, you're going to be there criticizing America I'...
by stuper1
Wed Dec 28, 2022 2:01 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Replies: 1160
Views: 828166

Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

This is the bleeding-heart-liberal way of looking at this: we are just providing arms to these people so they can fight for their country. As if all this stuff just started in February 2022. This is reality: the time when they should have been fighting for their independence was for the last 15 year...
by stuper1
Wed Dec 28, 2022 12:21 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Replies: 1160
Views: 828166

Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

Western Ukraine is very anti-Russian. Eastern Ukraine leans more toward Russia. ... as socially engineered by Russia. Send in migrants, force schools to only teach in Russian and Russian doctrine. Inciting a war that started eight years ago in response to such a social engineered invasion. Not the ...
by stuper1
Wed Dec 28, 2022 11:42 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Replies: 1160
Views: 828166

Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

I know folks are on different sides of this, but hopefully all can appreciate the humor in this I won't comment on the humor aspect, because I've learned I'm not qualified to judge humor. I'll just grant for the sake of argument that it's funny (at least if you're no older than 12, maybe 16, years ...
by stuper1
Wed Dec 28, 2022 11:32 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Replies: 1160
Views: 828166

Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

It's a lot more complicated question than whether "they" have made up their own minds to fight. Western and eastern Ukraine are two different cultures, imagine something like say Chinese and Japanese. Western Ukraine is very anti-Russian. Eastern Ukraine leans more toward Russia. Russia went into Uk...
by stuper1
Wed Dec 28, 2022 10:33 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Replies: 1160
Views: 828166

Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

People on this forum are somewhat interested in economics at times. Do you remember case studies of big government programs that were designed to help poor people, and in the end after spending boatloads of money, it turned out the government had made things worse off for the very people who the pro...
by stuper1
Wed Dec 28, 2022 10:16 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Replies: 1160
Views: 828166

Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

Vinny, I listened to Chomsky with Fridman. I have to say that I was more impressed than I expected to be with Chomsky. He is consistently anti-war, which is fantastic. The problem with the guy, and also with Fridman, is they are too idealistic. It would be great if the world worked the way they thi...
by stuper1
Tue Dec 27, 2022 9:28 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Replies: 1160
Views: 828166

Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

Ok, I guess I grant that it's funny. I'm not sure I grant that it's anything like what I said about Chomsky and concentration camps; more like just the opposite.
by stuper1
Tue Dec 27, 2022 7:43 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Replies: 1160
Views: 828166

Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

Vinny, I listened to Chomsky with Fridman. I have to say that I was more impressed than I expected to be with Chomsky. He is consistently anti-war, which is fantastic. The problem with the guy, and also with Fridman, is they are too idealistic. It would be great if the world worked the way they thin...