Id pay a premium to be able to convert to coins that I could pick up locally

Maybe not a bad idea, make of fund that's mostly cash, so the value of the gold in the fund is what changes, and you can say its not a gold fund to the IRS.

Have you tried kidney or garbanzo beans (hummus). No sacrifice of flavor and no gas. Just takes time to re-wire the brain away from unhealthy foods you're raised on.

Say a company has a net worth (market cap?) of 100 million. 100 owners (shareholders) each with a million dollar share. The company spends 50 million cash savings to buy out half the owners/shareholders. Now the company's net worth is 50 million? There are now 50 owners/shareholders, each share stil...

Calories eaten - calories burned - calories excreted Untreated diabetics pee sugar. Insulin causes cells to absorb sugar from the blood. You can lower insulin levels by minimizing sugar and carbs (which break down to sugar) I eat once a day before bed, basically just a bowl of beans with dark vegeta...

Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond ETF
4% and a risk level of 2

https://investor.vanguard.com/etf/profile/VCIT

hm

http://www.etf.com/IJR
PE 45

Leveraged ETFs and decay?
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets ... of_3x_etf/

Saw it in one of the many gold bashing threads on bogleheads. I'm still not sure if a deflationary currency is good, despite thinking about it daily for years :/ "Good for whom" might be part of the answer.

Maybe persistent deficits, spend 500 billion/year, collect 300B in tax, Print a 200B bond and give it to the Fed, they print a new 200B in cash for you. Some% of the national debt eventually has to be paid back to citizens but some% can never be paid back to the Fed. Permanent increase in money supp...

Dalio on economic history, is there a decent PDF to mp3 translator?

https://www.valuewalk.com/wp-content/up ... agings.pdf

Any other good podcasts on "cycles?" Im still not convinced the Fed isnt causing them.

https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2018/03/debt-oped.html From the comments: "Yes, we can easily default on our obligations like we did in 1932 and 1973, And we can do it smoothly as you suggest, with opportunistic and deliberate default via the Fed. Possibly keep inflation under 5% for a ten y...

Insight 5%s are going away
https://www.reddit.com/r/churning/comme ... 5_savings/

Fama backpedals on small factor around 4min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIKO-t4vU6Q And, once a money making strategy/factor is found, money piles in and it goes away. PEs for small value funds are higher than the market right now. The real money is in insider trading and front running. (not leg...

Is there a web page calculator for bond funds You plug in: Amount purchased Fund duration Rate purchased at Average interest rate over your holding period of X years ? And it tells you what you can sell for after X years I started my PP with EDV in late 2016, yield was 2.33% >:( so if it stays at 3....

Everyone should do cancer/aging biotech so we dont all die horribly (the status quo)

Disclosure: I tried it, burned out and retired at 30. (How? I live in a garage)

Heard good things about TD Ameritrade

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=244316

Ill worry when they can walk up stairs and open doors.

edit: shi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjSohj-Iclc

I use privateinternetaccess for torrents after getting a threat from Spectrum

Concerns me that the holdings of an ETF cant be sold to the market, ETFs have to rely on "Authorized participants"

I just bought a little FALN. We'll see what happens in the next panic I guess :/

No ETFs or Admiral shares in Vanguard's i401k

I use ibonds and 5% insight visa savings acct (5k limit)

Is it awesome? Isnt the market supposed to keep real rates the same. Real Interest = Nominal Interest - Inflation

Agreed w/ochotona but Trump pushing back against China may cause them to ask their attack dog, N Korea, to stop barking

Maybe the elites/MSM knew the NK threat was never serious, but to hoi polloi like myself ICBMs are unnerving

Crypto's eating into gold's market share (liquid hard currency/asset) and central banks face increasing public scrutiny w/the internet. it'll keep up with inflation, and maybe pop a bit during crises, but otherwise not optimistic about golds future, im 10%. if i had no real estate i might hold more ...

Surge was Goldman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2XivfCw1f4

Not sure if they're allowed to blow it up again
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/ ... s-trading/

https://dailyreckoning.com/goldman-gives-greenlight/