Of course the chickens are invited to Sunday dinner! Fine print: they'll be seated on a plate, not a chair. O0 Your concern about the threat of inflation to cash reminds me of when I got my very first money market account way back in 1981... I'm just watching; not overly concerned. We had a regular...

Correct me if I have this wrong, but the yield on the 2-year note (at the moment, per WSJ) is 1.36 % vs 1.2 % on the 1-yr. That's 13 % more, which would be a lot if only it were an annual raise, but...if your cash component is 100K, that's only $160 more.

Absolutely agree. I should have added that I really appreciate your posts in this thread. I do.
I hope that 6-month treasury bills and, say, Vanguard's prime money market will catch up with inflation, which is what- 1.6-2% ?
Not a lot of hope for banks.

sophie wrote:Not sure why the confusion about I Bonds?

Just to be clear, I was making a joke after seeing pug's green font. I think everyone is in agreement on the I bond holding period.

The current I bond rate is 1.96%. Max. $10,000 per SSN. Yield of I bond currently beats money market funds, 4 year CD, and 5 year Treasury. Less principal risk than FDIC - insured CDs or bank accounts. Yes, but you must hold I-bonds for 5 years minimum or face a penalty. So a more realistic compari...

The reasons given for not bolting were A) after ten years of low rates, many Americans don't think of cash as an investment (they need to read Tyler's article!), and B) "well, I have my checking at Chase, so I'll stick with them for everything." But it did mention people who do what you me...

But the priority of many of the core bitcoin developers is bitcoin-as-a-settlement-layer. Then building second layers on top (coinbase sure, but also other networks like lightning network, rootstock, etc). Rootstock, chicken stock, I don't know. It just seems like bitcoin was going to be a neat med...

All America Bank Savings (Mega Money Market) acct is at 1.5%, max. $35,000. The Wall St Jrnl has an article about banks' reluctance to raise interest rates (nothing new), as long as depositors aren't bolting en masse. Right now, they are awash in deposits according to the article. Some bankers said...

Some of these might be your kind of thing, ocho, et al.

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewto ... 0&t=222780

I always enjoy grap's posts.

sweetbthescrivener wrote:Heck, make it 600.

I prefer not t-
I mean, eh, welcome!

Thanks, Mark.
I once read about wealthy people and high value numismatic coins going through a scanner.
It was either an article or a post by Medium Tex.

Libertarian666 wrote:Markup is not the issue. Spread, including all costs, is the issue.

Is there any point to buying fractional gold coins, or is that just too costly, like buying silver?
(I have only bought 1oz coins).

Ha, I was going to mention that heat kills those, too, but I'm too afraid to even invoke their name. We haven't got those...yet.

Watch 'Joe's Apartment'.

Well they got me pegged. I'm ~the same age as Nick Offerman, the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty (in effect), Unix Time, Black Sabbath's debut LP and Medium Tex.I'm 8-9% in gold (pp+vp).

I wonder how much Nick Offerman has in gold.

WiseOne, as usual, you know ten times as much as I do. Why does the wasp thing conjure images of Silence of the Lambs? I had a favorite cashmere shirt ruined before I realized how severe the problem was. At a party down the block, I met a guy who was selling some kind of Tibetan wall hangings for a ...

I should have put a comma there to show the intentional redundancy:

a nomad, no fixed house or car.
he turned his trenchcoat collar up and walked down the dark rainy street...

But nomads *can* have cars.

Saw this posted at Bogleheads

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... r-the-exit

{ Gundlach. -- long bonds -- end of bull run -- Bloomberg }

europeanwizard wrote:Do you guys actively trade on gold? Maybe as part of your variable portfolio?

I've got the buying part down. Now if it would just go high enough for me to do some selling!

I do remember that you are also a light traveler, Mark. A nomad with no fixed house or car.

I guess that's why I don't think of gold as money.

Ah, I didn't see the June posts above when I was simultaneously posting in the Gold §.

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6756&p=162145#p162145

I guess I need a new code for SPX (S&P 500), as I was using Apmex code.
(Cool, Greg's still here!)

I agree, but wasn't that the original idea for bitcoin?
Not for investing or hoarding, but for commerce?

Interesting.
I take it. Initially, I had to supply some figures to my accountant like the size of the home office in proportion to my home. Now, it's out of my hands.

Kbg wrote:Phhhhfffbbbtttt...nothing. My NVDA crashed better than any of those wusses today.

Oh, how I wish I'd bought NVDA. Most of the bitcoin and ether miners are using it, apparently.

Hefeweizen all day for me. Including morning. Yes! It's amazing in summer. Especially Weihenstephaner. I don't know where the not-before-12 o'clock drinking custom originated, but it must've been started by someone who wasn't financially independent. I recently read something about how even childre...