@farjean2 : is it this guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Anthony_Dooley_III

Side question: who gets the website creation contract this time?

Awesome, thank you Xan!

Tenn, that image makes me sad that Wicked Lasers are illegal in the U.S. now.

well if i was a pp user as well i certainly would be concerned the way bonds and gold have been racking up losses every day That's the way it goes. The whole point is that the assets are non-correlated. Sure, it's more fun when the non-stock stuff is going up and one's stock-heavy friends are curio...

Rock on, Well, I move about as much as a rock, which is good for investing. whether you are dynamically nudging things I would classify my wife as a dynamic nudge, although that's outside the realm of investing. right now i have all the concerns a pp user has Should be - right now I have all the co...

That's good info, thank you!
We should have a small library of recommended precious metal history books, like Bogleheads has for general investing.

Vanguard just announced an upcoming webcast, "The role of bonds in your portfolio." Probably doesn't apply to us.

...except in REALLY weird cases like in 2008 when I had some money to buy gold and there was NOTHING available anywhere near spot, which was at about $800. Kitco was sold out of everything but 1-ounce bars, and those had a 10% premium, when 2% or 3% would have been more normal. Yikes. I wonder what...

BTW has anyone noticed, the Fidelity US Treasury money market has dropped its minimum investment from $25,000 to $2,500? I don't see whether it still has checkwriting privileges though. I had not noticed. I did just log onto fidelity to see my EDV purchase, which Fidelity calls " VANGUARD WORL...

Something tells me you'll be test-spinning things forever. If you're retired, why not just pick a conservative allocation and stick with it? It seems like sticking with a plan is more important than the plan itself, as long as it's not too crazy. Like one of the lazy portfolios or, yes, Golden Butte...

Let me correct some statements made a few posts back. Long term bonds are not held in the PP in order to dampen the volatility of stocks, the way bonds are used in Boglehead-type stock/bond portfolios and the Desert porfolio. I'm glad you pointed that out. That was mathjak and although you have som...

Despite all the everpresent hacking and cyber-criminal news, I never worry about losing my stocks or cash to hacking or identity theft. I am well aware that it could happen, and I would be devastated if it were to happen, but I feel no angst about it, for whatever reason. Conversely, there is a nagg...

Thanks for the heads up, FD.
I have some in my Roth. May sell it and buy something else.

Next you guys are going to try and tell me that Sean Spicer's the Easter Bunny- oh wait!

Johnny, you can search the forum if no one chimes in about this, but you can lose purchasing power.

'kay, then why phrase it as wiretapping?

<Damn, my ipad deleted what I was typing. Serves me right for starting out saying that I needed to be on a real kbd for this>. I am aware that NSA casts a wide net. Looking at sections 2.3 and 2.4 of that executive order 12333, though, it looks like mostly foreign stuff. I'll have to look at it more...

( WiseOne/b]) Among other thing, it appears the CIA has the capacity to pull off a hacking job and make it look like Russia was behind it (duals) Heard that on the radio yesterday. That, and the news that their hacking tools have been stolen by foreign spies and criminals. Yep. :-\(end duals.) Of c...

@Maddy: I remember Col. Flagg very well. Hilarious!

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mathjak107 wrote:if you want long term treasury bonds to fly fighter cover , then buy them

I bought because I was down to 20%.

Added a sliver of EDV today.
I expect it to go down, though.

One doesn't have to even be cynical to assume that the CIA tries to tap & hack everyone, but Obama ordering a wiretap on Trump? No. That's beyond looney toons to be believe that. That's why I like this short piece: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/obama-denies-wiretapping-trump-lik...

I have a burglar alarm and I don't see most burglars looking through my notebooks. Nor city inspectors or contractors who are casual thieves. I like ink on paper, too. I used dashlane for free briefly, and I like that they sent me an email warning about cloudbleed/cloudflare (which did not affect th...

I have seriously too many accounts. Are you happy with Ally, by the way? They seem to have a good reputation. I've been thinking about getting an extra checking account simply because I kind of don't want my regular banker to see all the checks I'm writing for gold coins. Why? Because he handles my...

She really should be fired. If I were the president, I wouldn't feel too comfy with her around. I mean, she bothered to post her feelings and doubts about it on facebook.