http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/after-midterm-rout-obama-says-he-got-nation%e2%80%99s-message/ar-BBd8Ehn?ocid=iehp President Obama said Wednesday that he accepts the American public’s message in the midterm elections that Washington needs to break its political gridlock, even as he will now f...

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/president-obama-left-fighting-for-his-own-relevancy/ar-BBd2sx1?ocid=iehp WASHINGTON — Two things were clear long before the votes were counted on Tuesday night: President Obama would face a Congress with more Republicans for his final two years in office, and t...

Got this off of MSN [quote Central banks purchased 118 tonnes in net gold in the second quarter of 2014, representing a 28 percent year-over-year increase, according to The World Gold Council. In May 2014, the European Central Bank and other European central banks signed the fourth Central Bank Gold...

I am still in the accumulation phase; much to my dismay. For every item that I donate to goodwill or sell at the community yard sale, two items take its place.

Disney’s ‘Frozen’ Dress Sets Off $1,600 Frenzy by Parents April 9, 2014 4:52 PM ET. By Christopher Palmeri Aaryn Costello is searching for the perfect dress, a 30-inch-long light-blue number with a sparkly bodice and a detachable white cape. That would be the Princess Elsa dress from the Walt Disne...

Darn  - I guess my trip to Las Vegas is off... I was sure it would be different this time...

You know, when I think about it there probably was no good answer to the question I asked. What is he going to say - we don't put our best and brightest people in charge of the targeted retirement funds, we save those for those willing to pay 2% more? I am sure a good salesman would have come up wi...

Daltrey has a squeeze box..  

Funny timing, I was just reading an MSN list about -Worst money advice in songs- This one still seems to apply to a person that goes overboard on home storage security measures. From the band the "WHO" The Who "Once upon a time there lived an old miser man By the name of Silas Stingy ...

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Just read over at the Bogleheads site that the person (Mike) that ran the Long-Term Returns website / blog has a pending lawsuit.

I enjoyed the back testing tool and his blog. I hope everything works out in his favor.

If you want to live off your investments, you just need a shitload of money. That's it. You can't count on interest rates being high enough for bonds or cash alone to work, you can't count on any individual market such as gold or stocks doing well over any consistent timeframe, and you can't even c...

Looks like AgAuMoney was right on the stock picking versus index for the stock portion. The marketing page for Perm has it listed as indexed but the total holdings show stock picking took place. From the website they talk about indexing Passive index exposure: each portion of the Fund does not try t...

Grilling / BBQ on a ceramic cooker

Overthinking investment portfolio's

suggestion for the forum:

Add a sticky about what the phrase "money you can't afford to lose" means.

Add a sticky with links about emotional investing.

"Malibu Joe"

Thank you for the links hedgehog!!

I never put the concepts of sports betting and long term investments together. Wonder if I can do some back testing on this... maybe find a way to rationalize a trip to Las Vegas.

OP – What a great post. I did not even realize that I looking at the avatar and running it through my own past experiances and what the picture meant to me. What I think I "see" in the Avatar: PS – Nelson Mandela pops into my head Medium-Tex – first glance Charlie Sheen from Platoon; at th...

Odd, there was not a reason given. Sounds like an opportunity for a 3rd party courier service to take over and fill the void; unless that has been blocked as well.

I will go with money I can afford to lose: Fun money such as vacations- I budget a certain amount each month for vacation planning.  We can use the money on any vacation trip we want as long as we only use the amount we have saved up. If we use less by taking just a mini vacation, the left over amou...

What effect do you think the QE is having on the HBPP right now? Is the QE causing short term bonds (SHY) to have such a low return? I did a quick review of the years that gold had a loss and it seemed that Cash was always there with a steady return; except for 1994. Right now it appears Cash is not...

You can just envision this fund manager on his next job interview: Interviewer: I see you managed the Frontier Micro-Cap Fund –let’s see: • 36.8 percent annual loss over the last 10 years • Since 1993, it made money in only two years — 1999 and 2009. • Many analysts consider the mutual fund the wors...

If you think the HBPP YTD performance has you on edge, just think about the poor folks that invested in this fund.  Frontier Micro-Cap Fund (FEFPX) • Last Update: 5:04 PM ET 03/17/10 • Volume 0 • Open: 0.05 • Previous Close: 0.05 • 52 Week Range: 0.00 - 0.00 • Expense Ratio: 26.92% • Net Asset: 40,0...

In that way, it's financial porn--its ubiquitous, easy to access because of internet technology, harmless when indulged for special occasions, but over time engenders its own type of performance anxiety and becomes addictive/damaging when indulged in too often. smurff - you nailed it! I will have t...

My VP is for retirement and the PP for an emergency, short-term and intermediate term goals. The VP decline in 2008 was a rebalancing opportunity that served me well. I was not invested in the PP at the time, but after the decline knew that I did not want "the money I can't afford to lose"...