Nope, we don't, though Germany, Spain, France and Italy have for example.
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- Sun Oct 16, 2022 11:31 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Vil's Valley
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1312
- Thu Oct 13, 2022 4:03 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Vil's Valley
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1312
Re: Vil's Valley
Haha, was not aware, thanks for sharing. People are just awesome inventing that kind of stuff, indeed.Mountaineer wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 6:27 am I saw one of these at the Delaware "punkin chunkin" several years ago. Awesome machine.
- Thu Oct 13, 2022 4:00 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Vil's Valley
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1312
Re: Vil's Valley
I do hope you and your family are doing alright, Vil Thanks DS. Not sure we are doing alright honestly. Definitely I/we are not desperate, but anxious for sure. Most likely I've mentioned it, but my plan was to do an early retirement, which unfortunately might not happen in the very near future. Of...
- Tue Oct 11, 2022 5:11 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Vil's Valley
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1312
Re: Vil's Valley
Yup, that's it. In general, you have 2 types of airguns - 1) when the projectile is being pushed by some kind of spring , and 2) shooting force is generated by compressed air that's being released through a tiny port with (sometimes) enormous pressure. There is really a wide variety of such guns.. A...
- Mon Oct 10, 2022 2:20 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Are most people here sticking with Treasuries?
- Replies: 341
- Views: 174335
Re: Are most people here sticking with Treasuries?
Agree? Not? Bought a new bipod for my hunting crossbow and looking for new powerful hunting PCP (note: here firearms are forbidden unfortunately and the one my old man is in posession of, is rather outdated, note2: AGT Vulcan 3 looks as a decent candidate). That's the rebalancing I do at the moment...
- Mon Oct 10, 2022 2:08 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Are most people here sticking with Treasuries?
- Replies: 341
- Views: 174335
- Wed Sep 21, 2022 10:41 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Scarce and high priced energy in Europe
- Replies: 76
- Views: 9250
Re: Scarce and high priced energy in Europe
Official inflation here is 18%. Guess unofficial is twice than that. Nice, ah? Today I realized that the local store that's normally quite busy during early morning hours has almost no clients now, the same time. Wondering how far will that go in EU...? ECB is lead by bunch of morons ... Still housi...
- Thu Jul 14, 2022 8:37 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Absolutely brutal - 5/5
- Replies: 291
- Views: 55653
Re: Absolutely brutal - 5/5
In days like this really wondering where all hedge funds money goes, if not in cash or in short positions...
- Thu Jun 16, 2022 1:57 pm
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Covered calls and Cash secured puts in TLT, GLD and SLV
- Replies: 75
- Views: 14488
Re: Covered calls and Cash secured puts in TLT, GLD and SLV
How many folks around here are actually in the PP? I can only think of maybe 3 folks? Do you have statistically significant data-set for your conclusion ? ;D I have US-PP since 2.5 years, only contributing 1/year to keep the percentages. Oddly enough I do not even have a look at it. I guess my VP i...
- Tue Jun 14, 2022 1:44 am
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The GOLD scream room
- Replies: 3693
- Views: 1780040
- Mon Jun 13, 2022 2:57 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: How much can you not afford to lose?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 7864
Re: How much can you not afford to lose?
And yes, while bond prices do decline at times, they're still less risky than stocks, especially if the average duration is not too long. Thanks, that's clear. What seems I cannot really accept and digest is that at the moment who's losing less is actually the winner. Still have the childish belief...
- Mon Jun 13, 2022 2:25 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: How much can you not afford to lose?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 7864
Re: How much can you not afford to lose?
So he suggests a milder glide path for the red zone As pre-retirement I was genuinely interested on this, however if I can recall from this article (which you shared in the past if I am not mistaken) the glide path was in essence - move some of the stock allocation to bonds when you are in the red ...
- Mon Jun 13, 2022 8:51 am
- Forum: Stocks
- Topic: Stock scream room
- Replies: 1438
- Views: 663884
- Mon Jun 13, 2022 7:04 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: No bid on mortgage backed securities
- Replies: 2
- Views: 622
Re: No bid on mortgage backed securities
Days like today one can think that the time has come for the whole market to go no-bid.Jack Jones wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 6:50 am https://notoriousrob.com/2022/06/finally-no-bid-on-mbs/
Mortgage rates heading higher. Not much demand for bonds that yield negative in real terms.
- Fri Jun 10, 2022 11:14 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: The PP, marginal utility, and investment "faith"
- Replies: 135
- Views: 32757
Re: The PP, marginal utility, and investment "faith"
Sorry for being ignorant, but did not have time today to read the news for US - what's the current 'explanation' for the S&P/QQQ down days ? In EU we had the ECB announcement yesterday, which might serve as some explanation ... Inflation CPI higher than expected. So the freakout continues. Than...
- Fri Jun 10, 2022 9:15 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: The PP, marginal utility, and investment "faith"
- Replies: 135
- Views: 32757
Re: The PP, marginal utility, and investment "faith"
Sorry for being ignorant, but did not have time today to read the news for US - what's the current 'explanation' for the S&P/QQQ down days ?
In EU we had the ECB announcement yesterday, which might serve as some explanation ...
In EU we had the ECB announcement yesterday, which might serve as some explanation ...
- Mon May 30, 2022 2:29 am
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Joypog's regularly changing AA (originally "The Desert Looking Glass Portfolio")
- Replies: 48
- Views: 8767
Re: Joypog's regularly changing AA (originally "The Desert Looking Glass Portfolio")
Yeah, definitely 20% commodities held in the Ivy portfolio needs some strong conviction, given that in the short term you will buy at high price (the war in Ukraine is already taken into account, and what happens if it ends some time soon..? For markets I do not think that it will make any sort of d...
- Tue May 24, 2022 1:03 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Absolutely brutal - 5/5
- Replies: 291
- Views: 55653
Re: Absolutely brutal - 5/5
Lagarde on Cryptos here Breaking news! European Central banker doesn't believe in Crypto and thinks it should be regulated. Yes, some more breaking news coming .. As I was reading through the recent (couple days ago) Gates notes found this : Hey Bill, what do you think about Bitcoin and cryptocurre...
- Mon May 23, 2022 10:20 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Absolutely brutal - 5/5
- Replies: 291
- Views: 55653
Re: Absolutely brutal - 5/5
Lagarde on Cryptos here
- Sun May 22, 2022 11:24 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: What kind of inflation are we experiencing?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 6340
Re: What kind of inflation are we experiencing?
The whole world is experiencing inflation, not just the US. Yes, you are definitely not alone. The euro area annual inflation rate was 7.4% in April 2022, a year earlier, the rate was 1.6%. European Union annual inflation was 8.1% in April 2022, up from 7.8% in March. A year earlier, the rate was 2...
- Thu May 19, 2022 1:54 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Random observation
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2323
Re: Random observation
And as completely opposite to a random observation - I am completely certain that new PP investors will get better prices. One could ask - better compared to what? Well, compared to me who did rebalancing/contribution at the beginning of this year ;D So, joypog , you may have good opportunities ahea...
- Thu May 19, 2022 1:42 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Phone - connected to keyboard / monitor
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4134
Re: Phone - connected to keyboard / monitor
Indeed, such posts might prove harmful, given Musk has shifted his focus from TWTR to GYRO (ISIN: 25252525)
- Wed May 18, 2022 10:59 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Random observation
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2323
Re: Random observation
In my US-PP (in USD) I have been using US7 for the bond allocation and it's combination of several durations averaging ~8 yr. Feel comfortable with it and do not plan to shift. As another random observation, I do think the sentiment will change to full blown bearish at some point as stock market doe...
- Mon May 16, 2022 11:37 am
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Joypog's regularly changing AA (originally "The Desert Looking Glass Portfolio")
- Replies: 48
- Views: 8767
Re: The Desert Looking Glass portfolio?
Start to smell pinwheel-ish here... ;D you just miss some REIT .. For me its too much of slice & dice. Only piece of international stocks I found that is not that much corelated to US stock market is EU small caps (and in EU we are good in having the small caps really small ;-)). For REITs I ha...
- Mon May 16, 2022 3:46 am
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Joypog's regularly changing AA (originally "The Desert Looking Glass Portfolio")
- Replies: 48
- Views: 8767
Re: The Desert Looking Glass portfolio?
Start to smell pinwheel-ish here... ;D you just miss some REIT .. For me its too much of slice & dice. Only piece of international stocks I found that is not that much corelated to US stock market is EU small caps (and in EU we are good in having the small caps really small ;-)). For REITs I hav...