I do not have cable but I'm optimistic this will find its way to Netflix in a year or two.  I want to watch it. From what I've seen though, this looks to be extremely promising. There's one thing that always bothers me about most of these "lifestyle" shows.  Now they're not all like this, ...

Couldn't you say the same thing about prosperity? If you had known in the year 1,000 what we know today, would you have been willing to bet on prosperity as the only really sustainable economic climate for the next 1,000 years?  It seems to me that such a bet would have left you broke many times as...

Buffett is at once a joy and an a enigma to read.  For instance it's refreshing that he admits openly that it's generally best to just buy an index fund, on the other hand his letters to shareholders indicate how smart they are for investing in BRKA.  He makes a sincere, if illogical, plea to aid th...

But if you have a fund doing it most of the way and are comfortable with that, then that is great. I resemble that remark. There's a concept I live by, in most but not all areas of life, called the 85% solution. The 85% solution is this:  try only to solve 85% of a given problem.  Cover the biggest...

I don't really see what the added value is here. It reminds me of those bags of fruit in the supermarket where you can get apples, oranges and bananas in the same bag. It takes willpower out of it. We're all a little different.  I for one would be an absolute wreck trying to be a stock picker.  My ...

Ha! Counterpart to alien hilarity and its predecessors:  There are internally consistent arguments that God exists which do not depend on having the awareness or experiences of another person or perception of the God entity. This for example is a thing of beauty and elegance. http://i.imgur.com/H4Zb...

I don't think any place that's ever existed has been well and truly free.  There's never been a state with voluntary taxation for example. I think you've got to pick and choose based on your personal desires, and you must prioritized and compromise to feel as free as possible.  I for instance do not...

I don't know about the other figures I've seen stated, but I arrrived at mine using Monte Carlo mean variance optimization just to see if 10% was enough.  It didn't seem to be, but EDV has a very limited history. I just took a look at the PRPFX portfolio.  The >20 year maturity bonds comprise about...

My 401(k) I can't do much about, but I have my other holdings at Vanguard.  Whenever I manage to come into a little more money than I had planned to spend I put it in my Roth IRA there, so it's not like it's a vast fortune. The other reasons (unique ownership structure, etc.) have already been discu...

Full disclosure:  I consider Jesus Christ my personal Lord and Savior. Now as to the article, this actually makes me both a little sad, and a little indifferent. The indifference comes from the fact that all information sources on topics like religion, race, minority groups, and other such societal ...

I'll go out on a limb here and say this as a newcomer:  I think there is, first of all, a certain segment of people who: 1.  Want to invest.  It seems most discussion groups like this are about 50/50 between people of normal modest means looking to build a retirement portfolio and people of extraord...

Oh I assure you, it's not rational.  It is however hilarious, or at least it is once you own it and realize it doesn't make any sense.

I've just always been that way with numbers ever since I was a child.  I have a strange compulsion for perfect partitions of a whole especially with percentages.

Browne was a bit of an odd duck, and I say that with all admiration and affection as I tend to walk funny and quack myself. I consider myself small "l" libertarian in outlook.  I believe there's a need for a lot of necessary government in an information age society, but I also believe we t...

I've been thinking about this lately, as in for four years or so now.  Here's what I've done:  I identify the most transferable skill I can get wherever I am currently at.  I just once in a blue moon go read what people are hiring for in the same industry that I have the opportunity to do where I am...

I am going to make you all laugh. I have to admit that I'm a bit anal retentive about numbers sometimes.  I like everything to be "perfect". A percentage based allocation brings out the worst in me.  I want to be perfectly aligned constantly all the time with every little fluctation. I don...

To what end should we do this though? As a non home owner, I for one think we need to manipulate the market to decrease property values by a factor of 42567. ;D  Then after I buy, they need to shoot up by a factor of 4 billion. How about we abolish all the federal government interference and let the...

I wish there was a true 4x25 mutual fund or ETF for a one stop shop, it would sure make it a lot easier to hold the portfolio in 401ks, etc.

That's not how most state and local government retirement plans work (which is what I assume the OP is talking about). In the typical state and local government retirement plan the employee is required to contribute a fixed percentage of pay (there is no election as with a 401(k) plan), but the eve...

So I find myself in a position I thought I'd never be in.  I'm in a situation where approximately 7% of my gross salary is siphoned off to fund an employee retirement annuity system. They call it something else in the literature but that's really what it is.  It chaps my bum for a few reasons: 1.  I...

This thread's of particular interest to me as I fall in that category of being in a situation where I'm interested in the PP, but it's not feasible to implement the 4x25 allocation.  I've long held to the 3 fund model (often called the Margaritaville portfolio) as I don't quite trust having everythi...