Having lived in the rural mountains of Pennsylvania, Craig and Lori were both familiar with wells; they picked the house on East Hopi for its sweeping views eastward to the Chiricahua Mountains but also for the solitude that came with owning a remote piece of property, which was only possible so lo...

For credit cards, see the boglehead threads or the points guy.
Lots of cards give 3% back on restaurants now. I also like the Fidelity visa (formerly amex) that offers 2% cash back on everything, provided you put the rewards in a taxable cash account at Fidelity.

Titleless, contextless 1-minute video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76p089IZXLs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcu-ysocX4 1177 BC, The Year Civilization Collapsed 110' long, interesting talk. It's neat to hear all this tied together, since in school and reading (and playing Age Of Empires) I o...

I don't have a subscription either, but you can read a few articles a month. google water wars arizona site:nytimes.com for a good read. I know at least one person on this forum has said he can't imagine why anyone would live in a state with personal income tax. Well..there are other variables. O0

(barrett wrote) For those of you uninterested in reading the link, it's a short article from late 2011 saying that one should hold off on buying stocks until an ounce of gold is worth roughly the same as the level of the Dow Industrial Index ("So for instance, if the Dow drops to 5000 and gold...

Desert wrote: ↑Sat Jul 14, 2018 12:59 pm

dualstow wrote: ↑Sat Jul 14, 2018 11:54 am Our gov’t at its best.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ANohtXQhkQw

Good lord. Strzok is a lot more patient than I would be...

Oh, I think he loves it. The heat is off him, and he can let all these children battle it out.

Our gov’t at its best.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ANohtXQhkQw

Maybe their selling point should be, “Look, you’re going to lose money on this, but it’ll be a steady, safe loss with minimal volatility.”

Tortoise wrote: ↑Thu Jul 12, 2018 10:25 pm Today I learned that Yahoo and AOL still exist.

An older friend of mine was still using an AOL address until recently, just like in the boglehead thread that mentions aol/yahoo/oath and verizon.

What happened to PRTBX, the all-treasury fund from the people who brought you PRPFX? It's all treasurys and all-short term for the low, low price of 0.7% O0 Looks like it hasn't paid anything for a while, which is weird for an income fund. Closed? http://www.permanentportfoliofunds.com/short-term-tr...

Old news I guess, but Yahoo/AOL/Oath are doing it, too.

https://www.komando.com/happening-now/4 ... know-about

Aha. And it explains why so many B’Hds stick with fund shares.

I mean Vanguard’s tax-managed stock funds. See VTMSX, for example.

I'm hurt fella's truly...calling me a bold face liar. :) Google away on this issue, tis a well known fact. Here is one of many articles on the issue. https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/investment-products/etf/etfs-tax-efficiency If I was a Boglehead I'm sure I'd be nagging you more about &quo...

https://media.giphy.com/media/13NP2tXPeJzP44/giphy.gif (cookie monster GIF above) O0 ... In other words and continuing this awesome Tyler analogy - bake your cookies with the oven light off and go take a walk or something instead of watching them! The antidote to short investing time horizons isn't...

x1.35 leverage with regard to Mutual Funds, never ever in a taxable account if there is an equivalent ETF version. MFs can not shelter capital gains due to normal trading/portfolio adjustments etc., ETFs can. You mean capital gains from distributions? I guess mine aren't big enough to generate taxe...

No mutual funds, though. That’s how I do my fractional shares.

ochotona wrote: ↑Sat Jul 07, 2018 5:53 am Gold bullion is to sugar as a gold ETF is to ... (complete this analogy)

A(u)spertame?

buddtholomew wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 8:51 pm Who adds the same amount of sugar as flour?.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/7820/ ... heet-cake/

Everyone keeps telling me the flavor boost is already baked in, and yet I see no option other than to participate. I just checked, and sugar still tastes much better than flour, eggs, and baking powder. The backtesting is very consistent on this, and I'm pretty confident that trend will continue. My...

This is for people getting in and out of gold, right? Not real investors.

(article author) If you want to bet on the yellow metal,

And look to ride it until the gold price hits $1,370.

Additionally, some Android apps are recording your screen.

https://bgr.com/2018/07/04/apps-not-sec ... -find/amp/

Public version of the story:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/inside-your-inbox

This poor forum is like a support group.

Corto: I'm fine with bots scanning my email for keywords and then plugging it into an algorithm, but the article details humans reading through emails . For example, employees of Edison, makers of a popular gmail app for mobile devices. Saints: I heard Pamela Adlon (voice of Bobby) talking about it ...