I removed “fool”, but damnit people only we ourselves can return this forum back to its glorious beginnings. I would not be retired and living peacefully off of the PP if I had not encountered this forum 10+ years ago. Let’s not ruin the content with this constant bickering. Maybe we can start 2021...

I removed “fool”, but damnit people only we ourselves can return this forum back to its glorious beginnings. I would not be retired and living peacefully off of the PP if I had not encountered this forum 10+ years ago. Let’s not ruin the content with this constant bickering. Maybe we can start 2021...

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 27, 2020 8:28 pm Some of my relatives in China could really use a PP allocation there.

Since no one has chimed in I think I'll make this into a research project for myself.

I'm doing the same. Let's compare notes at some point.

You would probably enjoy this book as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Analysis_(book) Waiting for Rickards book to come out myself. Review pending ;) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669009/the-new-great-depression-by-james-rickards/ Also visited Ballarat; awesome Victorian era...

Anything in particular about the election that makes you think fraud might be involved? I have to start by admitting there’s motive. Follow that with varying degrees of tightness of vote-tallying supervision. It’s not that I see some organized conspiracy out there, but only the possibility: the mea...

Pardon me if this has already been discussed, but is there a way for a US investor to assemble the functional equivalent of a Chinese Permanent Portfolio? This is to say the three buckets other than gold would need to be Chinese i.e. Chinese stocks, China Long Term Government Bonds, Cash in the form...

You should not be able to pardon yourself, for obvious reasons. I forget what our Constitutionalists say here. The ones who believe we should always follow the Constitution and it is always so clear as to what is permissible or not. Can or can he not pardon himself according to what the Constitutio...

Yeah, all these -isms are born of the same strain of simplistic, purity-minded thinking that if we all got back to the ONE SINGLE THING that's the most important thing evarrrrrrr, then we'd have brought about the utopia. Communism denies the value of anything other than collective solidarity Capita...

Nah, I don't feel like the basic idea can be salvaged. And because I don't believe in the goal anymore, I don't feel comfortable being a part of helping somebody else achieve that goal. Also, a lot of it is frankly a bit embarrassing for me to read today. So many headstrong and unsupported assertio...

Next move? A coup attempt. Get ready. Last night's video on the stimulus bill served no other intended function but to galvanize Trump supporters in advance of a bold (reckless?) move. He needs his supporters to believe that he and only he is their advocate. The rest of government cannot be trusted...

Another kinda-related article, about laptops. https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stopped-buying-new-laptops.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fkrisdedecker%2Flowtechmagazineenglish+%28Low-tech+Magazine%29 I guess it takes some people...

Next move? A coup attempt. Get ready. Last night's video on the stimulus bill served no other intended function but to galvanize Trump supporters in advance of a bold (reckless?) move. He needs his supporters to believe that he and only he is their advocate. The rest of government cannot be trusted....

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M last pp yearly high was 19.49% on 8/10 (low was -10.75% on 3/19, wow, 30% swing). Today, just popped over 19% again. Within 0.3% of yearly high. Given what has happened this year with the economy, my old self would be SO pissed off at the world -- how can stocks keep on rising when the world suck...

glennds ok, much more effort is being made at precautions in your area. Is it worth the additional time and expense? Doctors have been describing LA county hospital as a war zone going back several flu seasons From a hospital administration standpoint, I don't believe there is much choice. Infectio...

I was and still am attracted to the Permanent Portfolio strictly on the basis of its logic and that it has worked. Just a strict financial analysis. Zero political analysis attached to it. Vinny Same here Vinny. In my case I would simplify it further to say I was attracted to the Permanent Portfoli...

the forum itself has zero political ideology, the members are free to post their own if they choose to, they are free to disagree if they choose to, they are free to keep it to themself and stick to investing if they choose to, because of the nature of the portfolio and its origins, it has and alwa...

If you worked at a hospital that was going on ED divert several times a week all year round, then you're working in a seriously underbedded market. What exactly do you do? May I take a guess? Respiratory therapist? Lab or pharmacy tech? Phlebotomy? PT, OT or Speech? Sophie is an M.D.--a neurologist...

Please don't say do nothing, let it run. In my market, the hospital system is becoming totally overloaded, 8% capacity left in the statewide ICU licensed bed count. It is absolutely, 100% normal for hospitals to hit capacity every winter. My own hospital sends out "Surge Alerts" when that...

Please don't say do nothing, let it run. In my market, the hospital system is becoming totally overloaded, 8% capacity left in the statewide ICU licensed bed count. Glenn, you have to put on the hat of a hospital administrator to understand why 8% ICU capacity in winter is NORMAL. .... So in short,...

Put me down as "pro Darwinism". I don't understand the argument that if you don't want the vaccine, you are being selfish and putting other people's lives at risk. Wouldn't the only people with lives at risk be the ones that elected not to get vaccinated - and therefore explicitly embrace...

What I don't understand about the right though, and perhaps you can help me understand this. It just seems like the only option the right is willing to accept is a darwinist survival of the fittest. They seem unwilling to do anything to try to fix or reduce the spread. The push back against wearing...

2. Every Uber driver I've talked to about the subject. Several have told me they have regular full-time jobs with a long car commute. They signed up with Uber in order to turn those car commutes into extra income - they just pick up rides on their way to and from work. Another one, in San Francisco...

I think you have legitimate concerns. And it's not only the encroachment of renewable energy and enviromentalism. I have heard it put that we have left the age where oil was a form of currency and moved into an era where data is the new form of currency. But restricting this topic to investment in e...

I think Pugchief hit the key issue on the head - greed. We are mostly a greedy people. We want the see-saw firmly planted on the “I want more stuff, or the means to acquire it” side rather than on the “I have enough” side. Bigger house, flashier car, dozens of shirts, pants and shoes, and then go r...