I still live like a college student in my 1 bedroom apartment. When I was in the military I either had government furniture, or a furnished apartment (I lived in Germany, it was really nice furniture...), so it did suck having to buy a dining room table, couch-ish thing, and a bed.  So I have: Couch...

I think most of what "happens in the beltway" stays in "the beltway." Most people probably don't care, the ones that live in DC do care.

I'll read anything he writes, all of his books have been excellent.

I sleep on a J-life futon on a platform bed, it's great.  I can sleep 'ok' on soft beds, but the futon is really where it's at.

Our republic requires a moral people, not a people who blindly follow orders, no matter how monstrous or sinister they may be. These men both followed their consciences and exposed terrible acts they witnessed or were asked to perpetuate, in violation of their own oaths to defend and protect the Co...

Hah, weird bro. 

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annieB wrote: This is tough.

Are you using tracking software??

I doubt Craig is. But Obama may get your Financial IQ in his next Intelligence briefing.

Well played sir, well played.

Will, I can take a ferocious beating.  We could make tons betting against me in underground street fighting.

I have mine importing like this: =Index(ImportHTML("http://fixedincome.fidelity.com/fi/FIBondDetails?displayFormat=TABLE&cusip="&$whatevercellyourCUSIPisin&"&ordersystem=AORD&preferenceName=","table",0),5,2)*10 It comes back with a lot of errors thou...

"Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing."

-Tyler Durden

Yea #22!

Why do you think it wasn't as hard for you when the portfolio was under-performing relative to gold and bonds at various points in recent years? What is it about under-performance relative to stocks that is especially unsettling? Note that at least one of the PP assets will always be outperforming ...

Like the Marine guards at the Beirut embassy prior to the bombing, IIRC.

i read some interesting remarks about the British leaderships cognitive dissidence with regards to Islamist, it was pointing out that if these young head choppers (terrorists) had been in Syria or Lebanon they would be receiving arms from the very same British government that is speaking out agains...

It's comforting to me that, according to the news report, police shot those pieces of shit at the scene.

LOL.  I love Jack Handy "out of left field" delivery.

Total World skips out on those taxes when it "balances" itself?

So the extra cost associated with Total World might be offset by the convenience for a 'check once a year' investor?

Hot damn!  I can't wait until we discover alien life.. so that we can kill all those godless heathens and take their shit!

I just use the TSM and TISM funds, since the expense ratio is lower than TW, as my VP.  Eventually, I'd like to get into real estate (not an REIT, but actual land/buildings).

Vanguard Total World stock index expense ratio is 0.19%.

Total US is 0.05%, and Total Int'l is 0.16%.

Is there some advantage to the Total World fund that I'm not seeing?

=index(importhtml("http://www.kitco.com/market/",1,0),5,6)

That's the one I'm using to get the gold spot price, just for a consistent measure across the different coins/dealers one might use.  It wasn't working for a while so I thought I broke the internet, but it's working now.

hoost, is there a website where I can link a cell in the gold portion to the gold spot price?  I had been using Colorado gold, and tried to link it to Kitco's site but messed something up.

But do the gold bars have the lowest spread?  From what I've seen, the American Eagles and the Krugerrands have the lowest spread, so you pay less of a premium between your buy and sell points.  Also, the coins are harder to counterfeit than a bar. Are you saying the premium to buy or sell isn't on...

Bean wrote:
Mitch Rapp Series
American Spy series that is supposed to be very close to true by accident

I'm on Consent to Kill right now, they are definitely good books.