Oh fabulous! But... the Kindle Store on Amazon.co.uk is for UK customers only. To shop for titles available for your country, please visit Amazon.com. Can you help me ? Thank you. The link http://getbook.at/jobfree should automatically redirect you to your local Amazon site based on your IP address...

In order to get your free copy, please ignore the Kindle Unlimited link and instead click to "buy" the book (for $0). That should give you the book free of charge.

Amazon makes it very confusing because they are always trying to promote Kindle Unlimited.

I am giving away my latest book free on Amazon for the next few days only. It's called Job Free: Four Ways to Quit the Rat Race and Achieve Financial Freedom on Your Terms. It includes discussion of the permanent portfolio. Many members of the PP forum provided valuable feedback on the draft. Please...

I think the real meaning of the question in the OP is obfuscated by jargon language like "radicalized" and "hostile foreign policy actions". A less foggy way of posing the question would be: Does murdering people in foreign lands lead to some people there becoming more violent/ag...

dualstow wrote: You sound really young in your podcasts. I thought you were in your twenties or early thirties.

Ha, thanks! Currently in my mid forties, so if I go to the doctor, they don't try to fix anything anymore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzEhoyXpqzQ

I also just hit an all time high on nominal value, but I then calculated past years in constant prices and found that my all time real high was 2011. Boo. My portfolio is in pound sterling and was affected by some non-PP transactions, so your results may be different. The key thing is that I'm in th...

I found an interesting quote by Harry Browne regarding his influences: "A number of people have contributed to my economic education over the years, but probably the three most important influences were Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and Henry Hazlitt." (from "Why the Best-Laid In...

The documentary Chasing Madoff http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1636849/ is well worth watching. I had to ignore the stupid "film noir" style of the documentary, which I found highly pretentious and irritating. However, the interviews with the people involved are so fascinating that it is worth...

The minimum wage started as a policy of the eugenics movement: "“Progressive economists, like their neoclassical critics,” Leonard explains, “believed that binding minimum wages would cause job losses. However, the progressive economists also believed that the job loss induced by minimum wages ...

That's a highly ideological view, and the studies I've seen don't support it.  What they seem to show is a very small reduction in jobs, and many other gains for those at the bottom of the socio-economic scale, and also for those above that, as the folks at the bottom spend more of their money, whi...

here's how to spot a transnational elite: - Lives in a city you've heard of - Frequent foreign travel, usually to other cities you've heard of - Other people seem to pay for a lot of their goodies - They (ostensibly) produce or contribute to the production of knowledge, not goods or services - What...

congrats jake! Can you send a link to the book?  I'd like to put it on my reading list! Thanks WiseOne! Here is a link http://getbook.at/jobfree I had some brilliant feedback from the people on this discussion board, following the original request I made on this thread. If anyone on the PP board is...

Jake, Congratulations on the public release of your new book.  I finished reading it this morning.  Like all of your work, it is wonderfully researched, complete and useful.  I also like the way your writing style is evolving.  In particular, the first chapter introducing your friend Peter seemed v...

Desert wrote: It feels good to be in second place. 

We were winning until a few days ago.

It has nothing to do with "western civilization" vs "middle eastern civilization" (what passes for it, at least). It's the simple, human, enduring fact that people generally don't like people who are unlike them--the greater the difference, the greater the distaste. This is why ...

Days like today remind me of the article that Harry Browne wrote on September 12th, 2001.

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/browne2.html

MediumTex wrote: The truth, of course, is that it wouldn't be a do-over.  It would be a whole new discussion, part of which would be revisiting the first discussion, but I would still like to do it.

You're on, Tex! I will message you to arrange.

If you know any podcast about EUROPEAN PP please let me know! :) ;) :D Here's an interview about having a permanent portfolio in Europe: http://www.thevoluntarylife.com/2012/02/investing-in-europe-interview-with-marc.html As far as I understand, Marc (the guy I interviewed) has since changed his mi...

dualstow wrote: "Jake", when will you finally admit to the forum that you're actually Eric Idle?

Well, I will admit that this is what I look like when recording podcasts:

I've just released a podcast interview with Tyler (resident chart wizard from this forum) about passive investment portfolios and his website Portfolio Charts. Here's the interview page http://www.thevoluntarylife.com/2015/10/223-guide-to-passive-investment.html And here is the mp3 http://podcasts.t...

Thanks Mark! We're having a great time here in Panama. I'm currently trying to get more fluent in Spanish. :) For the UK stock ETF question, I agree that FTSE 100 is probably good enough, but I decided to go with 80% FTSE 100 and 20% FTSE 250. It's not too complicated as a solution and still doable ...

Thanks guys. Since there are low-cost FTSE 250 ETFs (Vanguard has one), I think I could approximate an All Share index by putting 80% of the stock allocation into the FTSE 100 ETF and 20% into the FTSE 250 ETF, with the kind of rebalancing that Tex suggested.

Hello fine people, I'd appreciate your thoughts on a question about the composition of stock ETFs used in a PP. When it comes to low-cost stock ETFs in the UK suitable for the PP, the two main contenders are the Vanguard FTSE 100 (VUKE) and iShares FTSE 100. Their expense ratios are 0.09% and 0.07% ...

Gold - I buy physical gold, my view on this is overtime the charges on an ETF could erode value were physical gold is bought once at a premium and held. I buy mainly Sovereigns or Brittania's once I have enough money is the gold pot. One of the clever ideas Harry Browne had when developing the PP s...

1) You can't trust any of the bitcoin banks not to vanish with all the assets. "Bitcoin bank" is a misnomer, since the whole point is that bitcoin does not require banks. I think what you mean is that you can't trust any of the exchanges not to vanish with all the assets. Most of the peop...