https://secure.sovereignman.com/lifeboat/

I'm curious if anyone has purchased any materials like that from this link (or similar) & what your comments are.

I wouldn't want to send more than half of my gold overseas, and at a $500k PP, that's only about $60k of gold you can send overseas. what is the basis of 50% overseas being max? Part of the reason I ask is that gold seems to be the lowest cost way to get international diversification (thru likes of...

that's the impression i get just from the tone of his writing. Plus, I recall that he seems very partisan in his commentary. To borrow a phrase, he likes (creating) poor people.

the original post is from Paul Ferrell. What is his track record in making predictions?

was reading an old (early 70s) HB book today. He was very specific that the safe deposit box should not be part of a bank. He also was predicting the closing of the gold window & warned against buying gold in futures market (think MF Global). I don't find much when I do an online (Startpage.com)...

Lately, I've been thinking that a solution to this concern is to hold a complete PP in another currency. Ideally, I would hold this outside my country of residence, for purposes of increased geographic diversification. One reason I'd like to do this sooner than later is the pending FATCA 30% withho...

Holding the major foreign currencies is a zero-sum game.  In the long-term, they all return the same purchasing power, so theres no net effect of buying or selling one currency over another unless you plan on trend following in the shorter term. But, it does not make sense to not hold the currency ...

What's the opinion on VEU TLT ISHG GLD ? VEU chart looks almost just like VTI...I don't know what the implication is during a "currency event"...do global stock markets crash in tandem? In 2008, the Euro was much stronger vs US$...I dont' see any reflection of that when I compare these ET...

A few points: 1. The PP worked fine in Iceland. 2. Stocks aren't necessarily "rocked" in high inflation. 3. If runaway inflation is affecting the dollar, it may very well be affecting a lot or all other currencies too. 4. I don't feel like searching for something better than the HBPP. Why...

Yuna,

Have you found a satisfactory solution? Or specifically ruled out anything you were considering? (I saw you had similar posts in cash & bond section also)

Also, what broker do you find useful, in particular if you are a US citizen?

Clive,
have you looked into TD Internaxx based in Lux? TD Ireland won't accept a US resident.

my concern w/ TD would be that they have a large US footprint...so would I really be getting geographic diversification (protection from uncle sam)?

is this a valid concern?

I'm looking for feedback on Davy...costs seems very high.

What else?

swissquote is not accepting US residents at this time.

I'm looking for other options.

3) Physical gold and a financial product that stores the asset outside the country. This could be physical with a fund like CEF that stores assets in Canada. Or maybe an ETF like SGOL that stores it in Switzerland. Plus is you have some diversification against natural or manmade disasters in the US...

well, learning about the HSA market: -my credit union doesn't offer any investment options, just cash holding -my local bank, as mentioned, offers Dreyfus index fund...btw, my local bank is rated D+ by Weiss Research -5/3rd Bank offers HSA with Vanguard index fund option...Weiss ranks 5/3 slightly b...

its helpful to define inflation. If you define it as increase in the money supply, we've already had lots of inflation...gold price may just be reacting to that inflation of the money which supply which has occurred thru actions by the Fed.

since my bank's HSA doesn't offer gold, LTT, or T bills, I'm looking @ buying the Dreyfus S&P 500 index, (PEOPX, 0.5% Expense ratio...not the greatest). My thinking is that I'm using tax deferred space while keeping my investments in line with the PP. In particular, I don't want to keep it just ...

It's too bad the Treasury did not think creatively about their decision to end paper bonds.  They complained about the costs. They could have enlisted the Post Office to sell the bonds over the counter as they do with money orders. Apparently it's not a sustainable business model to pay people $60k...

Stone...I think you hit the nail on the head.

eliminate counter-party risk

back on the main topic, from speaking with Vanguard I learned that funds "settle" faster from the sale of the mutual fund (1 day for fund, 3 days for the ETF...as I recall)

This isn't just a theoretical issue. In the past stock market busts when people move quickly to cash in some funds they do leave the remaining holders with taxes as a result as the fund disposes of shares. was this an issue with Vanguard in the past, more specifically their s&p 500 or total sto...

TLT at all time high...EDV well short of high...why? I'm surprised of this considering that EDV acts like TLT x 1.5. Any thoughts?

will another downgrade of US Treasury debt do it?

or can we expect LTT to (counter-intuitively?) leap up?

or should we expect LTT to continue its (40 year?) bull market...due to problems in Europe...I know it makes no differ to the PP, but its interesting all the same.