Just a few thoughts on what you are proposing, Arturo: 1) Almost everyone ponders lowering the cash portion of the PP. 2) Lots of people juice their cash returns with a portion invested in savings bonds, slightly longer duration treasuries or whatever. 3) IF you are relatively young and still accum...

I have had no problems, upon my request he supplied me with a reference in my metro area who verified that he also had a good experience. Maybe gold is loss-leader for his advisory service, which is darned expensive . COSTCO breaks even on food, makes it up in memberships. That sort of thing. He has...

ochotona wrote: I get my gold with 1% markup. 4-5%? Goodness. Anyone can send me a PM for the dealer name.

Doug Eberhardt, San Diego. Free insured shipping. Really good prices, straight-up fellow, very helpful.

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Everyone has problems managed across taxable and tax deferred. The guvmint does not help us, nor do corp benefit plans.

I get my gold with 1% markup. 4-5%? Goodness. Anyone can send me a PM for the dealer name.

buddtholomew wrote: A dollar in taxable is more valuable to me today. Tax rates at withdrawal and long-term capital gains/collectibles taxes owed dictate how valuable tax-deferred space will be in the future.

Those govt drawn lines aren't dotted, those are solid!

Well after this October when the new enrollment period starts, they will request your next year's estimated income.  So if you're still unemployed, I believe you will be able to put down $0 for wages and thus qualify.  And Medicaid too if your state expanded it. I will be working again fairly soon....

I made too much money for the exchanges, yes. And I am unemployed. Both of those nice things.

MG, while on the subject of gold mining stocks, I don't know much about them. Would a safer, more boring way to play the sector be to buy NEM or PSAU? What's you gut feel as to when the bottom could be?

Actually, the distinction between the PP and VP is artificial in this case. Yes, you only have ONE portfolio... everything you own, and everything you owe, plus insurances, plus the amount you earn (and likelihood of being unemployed), and your future health liabilities, liabilities to family, the ...

Yes, just think of all the inventions and startups for which we can thank welfare recipients! If George H. W. Bush and Gerald Ford are RINOs, then yes, I am a RINO. Ronald Reagan would be pilloried today by the Tea Party for some of the actions he took as President. He would never have gotten re-no...

No. Chicago Machine Politics. Reward your friends, punish your enemies. Texas is his enemy. NASA in Houston did not get any of the actual space shuttles, even though Houstonians died on two shuttle missions. Obama could make the problem go away in an instant by allowing export of oil.  Will he?

I can tell you from personal experience, morale within these companies is completely in tatters . Managers have completely capitulated. They see no future in their own industry. They are in a fetal position in their offices crying. They have possibly oversold, they have possibly overcorrected on the...

Now that I have a reasonable quality (but expensive) post-Obamacare private marketplace insurance, I'm thinking of starting my own business after being let go from a Fortune 500 in the oilfield sector last week. If I couldn't have gotten it, I'd have had to try to bury my talents (again) in the hal...

Now that I have a reasonable quality (but expensive) post-Obamacare private marketplace insurance, I'm thinking of starting my own business after being let go from a Fortune 500 in the oilfield sector last week. If I couldn't have gotten it, I'd have had to try to bury my talents (again) in the hall...

After being laid-off last week, I bought Blue Cross Blue Shield in the private marketplace online in a few minutes. It was expensive. But I appreciate: No pre-existing condition exclusions Adult children up to age 26 can stay on the plan Those things must stay in. If private insurance was like it wa...

If you have less than 25% physical gold, this is going to happen to you on this Forum. http://militantlibertarian.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Salem-Witch-Trials.jpg 5% is hardly a PP, 10% is acceptable as I too only hold 1/10 of my portfolio in gold. 10% is acceptable according to you, but is def...

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MachineGhost wrote: HB is wrong.  Gold didn't go up from 2001 to 2011 because of inflation anymore than gold went up from 2011 to date due to inflation.

I will be "all in" when gold is $850. Not a moment sooner. If it even goes below $1000, I will be "more in". Right now, I'm at 11%. Rest evenly divided cash, stocks, bonds. Is that speculating? I carry a gun, is that speculating?

And those certain times can be very long. Yes, we're all used to $4+ coffee by now... but if someone offered you a $12 coffee, you'd refuse it! You'd wait for the price to normalize. Problem with gold is that wait time can be extended; but we hit it in real terms in early 1970s and 2001 and maybe ag...

And it's global, not US-centric.

MilfordTony wrote: Gold's price isn't simply driven by the supply-demand ratio, the dollar's movements, inflation, oil price, geopolitical events and so on.  The market's way of functioning is far more complex and less transparent.

Thanks for the kind words. I appreciate it.

I recently lost my job.  :'(  Oil industry, Texas, I still need to shelter income for tax year 2015, the severance was pretty large (I'm not totally unhappy... technically, I could retire. But of course, I won't at my age). So, I'm looking for a low-cost financial institution I could access as an in...

Now is a good time to buy energy stocks. The next 30 - 90 days.

Oh my, very small nuclear weapons.