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- Thu Nov 17, 2016 10:05 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Trump's Effect on the PP
- Replies: 88
- Views: 68738
Re: Trump's Effect on the PP
For the past year or so I have been saying here that Tight Money is impossible to imagine now. Therefore throwing the 25% cash into question. I don't agree that it is the same as the Liquidity Crisis. That was deflation. IMO. But they're both the same thing. Cash becomes more valuable relative to a...
- Thu Nov 17, 2016 9:53 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Trump's Effect on the PP
- Replies: 88
- Views: 68738
Re: Trump's Effect on the PP
Yes - I'm referring to Congress not raising the debt ceiling. I suspect the Tea Partiers will continue to try to prevent this, not to get concessions from the "normal" Republicans but because they're zealots who believe increasing the federal debt is inherently evil. The question is wheth...
- Thu Nov 17, 2016 8:18 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: MachineGhost's Research Resort
- Replies: 212
- Views: 96131
- Thu Nov 17, 2016 7:24 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Trump's Effect on the PP
- Replies: 88
- Views: 68738
Re: Trump's Effect on the PP
On the other hand, I'm skeptical of the PP's ability to withstand an idiot congress led by an ignoramus who together seem like the perfect storm that may end up with the US defaulting on Treasuries and/or the US dollar losing its worldwide reserve currency status. Are you referring to Congress not ...
- Thu Nov 17, 2016 6:17 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Trump's Effect on the PP
- Replies: 88
- Views: 68738
Re: Trump's Effect on the PP
I had a spark of inspiration this morning and am mulling over a fix for the PP's Achilles' Heel. What most of us didn't realize until just this very atomic moment is that "Tight Money" is the same thing as "Liquidity Crisis" aka 2008. The PP got destroyed in 2008 before just bare...
- Thu Nov 17, 2016 11:56 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Trump's Effect on the PP
- Replies: 88
- Views: 68738
Re: Trump's Effect on the PP
Use trend following on T-Bonds and stop worrying about it.
- Thu Nov 17, 2016 11:47 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Government [Non]Accountability Scream Room
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5717
Re: Government [Non]Accountability Scream Room
Here's a U.S. Pension Tracker showing market/acturial pension debt/household, capita, etc.
http://us.pensiontracker.org/
http://us.pensiontracker.org/
- Thu Nov 17, 2016 11:14 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Government [Non]Accountability Scream Room
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5717
Re: Government [Non]Accountability Scream Room
Get ready for more emigration! Only the poor and super-rich politicians will be left behind. The series of tax and fee hikes pushed by Emanuel and approved by aldermen adds up to about $1,692 a year once they take full effect. Here's a breakdown: *About $994 in property tax hikes for City Hall and C...
- Wed Nov 16, 2016 5:49 pm
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: P2P Lending
- Replies: 74
- Views: 53862
Re: P2P Lending
U.S. Consumers Are Increasingly Defaulting on Loans Made Online
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... ne-lenders
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... ne-lenders
- Wed Nov 16, 2016 5:17 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Big, Open, Green, Wasted, Space!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14691
Re: Big, Open, Green, Wasted, Space!
Good riddance to those malls! Online shopping is not just the future, it's the present. Introverts like me are never going to go hang out in a mall with sleazy sales people when we can just add it to the cart. It seems like the blacks with their pants backwards, down to their knees and/or chains da...
- Wed Nov 16, 2016 5:03 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: ACA (Obamacare) v2.0
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13814
Re: ACA (Obamacare) v2.0
What's the point you're trying to make with this graph? It apparently shows the average cost of employer sponsored policies, not policies from the exchanges. The rate of growth is (approximately) 100% from 2000 to 2008, and more like 50% from 2008 to 2015. Is your point that ACA is a good thing sin...
- Wed Nov 16, 2016 3:07 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: ACA (Obamacare) v2.0
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13814
- Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:52 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Big, Open, Green, Wasted, Space!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14691
Re: Big, Open, Green, Wasted, Space!
Dead malls are popping up all over the states, particularly in the Midwest, where economic decline has sped up the “going out of business” process. This map, put together by a Dead Malls Enthusiasts Facebook group, shows that well. As Americans are faced with multiple shopping options and more stor...
- Wed Nov 16, 2016 11:05 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Government [Non]Accountability Scream Room
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5717
Re: Government [Non]Accountability Scream Room
President Obama has spent the last eight years governing by executive order and administrative rule. President Trump—aided by a Republican Congress—will have the capacity to dismantle some of the worst of these actions. One Department of Labor ruling especially ripe for scrutiny exempts states from...
- Wed Nov 16, 2016 10:34 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: I wrote to Jeff Bezos
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10540
Re: I wrote to Jeff Bezos
White power fucknuts are like Democrats -- they use any and every angle to boster their cause, no matter how tenuously related. If this election has taught us anything, people are generally fucking stupid and are highly motivated and influenced by puppets. It was a mistake to ascribe any hint of rat...
- Wed Nov 16, 2016 10:28 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Electoral College
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10773
Re: The Electoral College
1. Forget why it was implemented this way. The result of getting rid of it will be to give huge population centers e.g. California, new York, etc etc more influence and other states less. Is that what you want or think is appropriate? Nope, but I stand on principle not ideology. I don't change as t...
- Wed Nov 16, 2016 10:19 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: International diversification
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8811
Re: International diversification
Granted, all fiat money is just paper, but not everywhere is Zimbabwe. In 50 years the US dollar has gone from 4.38 swiss francs to parity, and the pound from 8.58 to 1.68 Singapore dollars. That's structural, rather than market fluctuation. And the USA was also responsible for several orders of a ...
- Wed Nov 16, 2016 10:07 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: I wrote to Jeff Bezos
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10540
Re: I wrote to Jeff Bezos
Yes, sometimes it involves petty theft, but more often than not it's been about violence. A few weeks ago, they assaulted a mounted police officer and punched the horse in the face. Twice. I think what defines a flash mob is the apparent spontaneity of it, hence flash , but quiet planning involving...
- Tue Nov 15, 2016 11:26 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: I wrote to Jeff Bezos
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10540
Re: I wrote to Jeff Bezos
As for UPS and FedEx, used to write to Amazon to request them, but they told me essentially that logistics dictate who does the delivery, and that sometimes it's going to be the USPS. Maybe one of these days I'll see more of those Amazon trucks I saw in Maryland. I meant using it with non-Amazon pu...
- Tue Nov 15, 2016 11:16 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: I wrote to Jeff Bezos
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10540
Re: I wrote to Jeff Bezos
They do have lockers to pick up your stuff. Never tried it.dualstow wrote:They wouldn't. Just the opposite. That's why I called it a caveat.
You can also have it sent to HOLD FOR PICKUP at FedEx and UPS.
- Tue Nov 15, 2016 10:29 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: I wrote to Jeff Bezos
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10540
Re: I wrote to Jeff Bezos
And how would Amazon resolve that problem?dualstow wrote:People taking boxes off the front step that the USPS lazily left there, without even ringing the bell, sometimes even when I'm home.MachineGhost wrote:Besides being oh-yet-another-negative of living in an urban jungle, what are stoop thefts exactly?
- Tue Nov 15, 2016 10:20 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Authoritarians
- Replies: 56
- Views: 26179
Re: The Authoritarians
The law is supposed to provide an enduring framework for applying a set of rules consistently and evenhandedly. We're just now seeing what happens to a society when its members lose faith that this basic framework is there to protect them. I'd suggest that it is this realization--coupled with the s...
- Tue Nov 15, 2016 10:15 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: I wrote to Jeff Bezos
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10540
Re: I wrote to Jeff Bezos
Besides being oh-yet-another-negative of living in an urban jungle, what are stoop thefts exactly?
- Tue Nov 15, 2016 10:11 am
- Forum: Cash
- Topic: Post election MERKX vs SHY performance
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6210
Re: Post election MERKX vs SHY performance
USD and yields are moving higher on expectations of economic growth under Trump. This is bad for gold and foreign currencies/debt. I agree with you that I never expected an "alt right" demagogue to be elected, but on the other hand its not like Slick Hilly herself wasn't engaging in it. Sh...
- Tue Nov 15, 2016 9:34 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Stocks for sell time horizon in May? (High school Economics project)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5137
Re: Stocks for sell time horizon in May? (High school Economics project)
I vote for the monkey throwing darts. That's the kind of visceral things kids like and makes it a lot more fun and interesting than a bunch of boring numbers in a newspaper or web site.
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