You mean it would be worth more than $1,000 now. Just for those who haven't noticed the incredible spike in bitcoin prices lately. I bought $300 worth of bitcoin a while back, and now it's worth over $3,000. I should probably cash it in, but I can't stop wondering whether bitcoin might go to $100,00...

Along those same lines, here is the best T-shirt I saw on a teenage girl over my vacation weekend: Dance As If Russia Wasn't Watching.

Loved it!

The Putin analogies are funny to me. I know, I know, he's a tyrannical autocrat who supposedly has had a bunch of people bumped off, etc., etc. But does anyone stop to think about where all of that information came from? Yeah, from the establishment media, which I for one am firmly convinced is soli...

If you hold physical gold, then you may not hate your gold when a massive solar eruption knocks the power out for 6 months and resets the global financial system ... or (name some other potential disaster with the same effect). Isn't that one of the reasons to hold gold? We don't have to like it eve...

Keep in mind I'm not saying that who he's putting in power is arguably a whole lot worse that who HRC would, or Obama did. But the idea that this guy is a breath of fresh air in any way imaginable is ludicrous to me. I've produced better anti-establishment candidates in my toilet. :o So, if the est...

And in actual news... https://theintercept.com/2017/11/13/dazzled-red-carpet-trump-gives-philippine-strongman-pass-killing-spree/ Trump’s failure to criticize the widespread executions in the Philippines was not a surprise, given that a leaked transcript of a phone call between the two men in April...

My intent was to point out how absurd some of the complaints about Trump are. I wasn't expecting my comment to be taken seriously. The comment was not difficult to recognize as pure satire. The exaggerated font was an essential part of the political commentary being offered--a commentary, incidenta...

Moda, you've used the word "authoritarian" several times to describe Trump. Could you tell us which of his actions you find as displaying authoritarianism? I ask this out of true curiosity, not as any type of "gotcha" question. I just want to know, because I don't really see tha...

The one that I love is when people say that with Trump as our president, we are now the laughingstock of the world. Maybe we are the laughingstock of wimpy, socialist Europe, although I'm not even sure of that, but really who cares? I actually doubt we are the laughingstock anymore in a lot of place...

Moda, you've used the word "authoritarian" several times to describe Trump. Could you tell us which of his actions you find as displaying authoritarianism? I ask this out of true curiosity, not as any type of "gotcha" question. I just want to know, because I don't really see that...

moda0306 wrote:He's a complete slimeball.

Could you point us to the sources you have found most valuable in arriving at this opinion?

Very well stated, WiseOne. A whole lot of people seem to want to dump on Trump as if he was Hitler, but they don't seem to consider that maybe the only reason they think he is Hitler is because the media wants them to think that. Has anyone else seen this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskR...

Of course, it's because our whole economy is basically one big Ponzi scheme. You don't feel like we've created anything along the way? Where did our satellites and flush toilets come from? Our culture has created many wonderful things. My post was focused on the present and future. In the past, we ...

If I were the Japanese, I would keep things the way they are, and continue to severely restrict immigration, so that they can enjoy their culture, and the rest of us can also enjoy their culture if we choose to visit. For America, it is much more complicated, because we have been multicultural almos...

Ok, American exceptionalism. So, where did that exceptionalism come from? Why is America different say from Chile? The difference is our culture. As long as immigration is kept at a low enough level so that immigrants can assimilate into that culture, then the exceptionalism may endure. If the immig...

I thought that if one spouse itemizes income-tax deductions, that the other spouse also has to itemize and is not allowed to take the standard deduction. Is that not true?

Typing on phone here so will keep this brief. But since the election of Trump I have endeavored to understand better some of the positions of the so called "alt-right". Initially it seemed like a group inhabited entirely by kooks...however, i recently came across material by Jared Taylor ...

I strongly suspect that there are inherent biological differences between races when looking at say average intelligence, strength, speed, etc. However, I don't know what to do with that information. Even if one race on average has a higher IQ than another, there still will be many individuals in th...

I don't have any personal experience with that model, but I can definitely endorse the idea of buying an older Toyota. Just yesterday I finally replaced my 2000 Chevy Prizm, which is basically a Toyota Corolla rebadged as a Chevy. When I looked back in my records to see how long I had owned it, I wa...

Here's the main benefit that comes to my mind: stability of the marriage, because both parties are assured that the other party is willing to enter into the contract with all the rights and obligations thereto pertaining, and with all the penalties involved should one party decide to terminate the a...

What's the conclusion on snow tires?

Right, but should I vote Yes or No if I don't want the social justice filter? If I have to figure it out for myself, I will just ignore it.

I got a mailer, but not a call yet. If I want to prevent the corruption of the fund, do I vote Yes or No?

To me, this is one of the best things about the HBPP. I know that I have gone years of my life without looking at my portfolio, because I've gotten busy with other things. It's really good to know that with the HBPP I can come back 2 or 3 years later with good assurance that my financial life won't ...

I'd say you are probably more self-aware than most. You know that you probably won't be able to handle the volatility when it hits, so you have traded some theoretical CAGR for less volatility. I say "theoretical" because a lot of people will sell equities when the volatility hits, and the...