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- Tue Jan 02, 2018 3:31 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The GOLD scream room
- Replies: 3693
- Views: 1771074
Re: The GOLD scream room
And at this rate I will break even by April 1st... (No kidding!)
- Fri Dec 29, 2017 12:11 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: HBPP Predictions for 2018
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5822
Re: HBPP Predictions for 2018
Sorry Xan... I was thinking nominal growth as that would exclude another assumption (inflation).
- Thu Dec 28, 2017 1:35 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: HBPP Predictions for 2018
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5822
HBPP Predictions for 2018
No doubt this is HBPP heresy but it would be fun to see the range of results from the wisdom of the crowds...
- Fri Nov 10, 2017 3:30 pm
- Forum: Cash
- Topic: New I Bond Rate 11/1/17 - 4/30/18
- Replies: 45
- Views: 41977
Re: New I Bond Rate 11/1/17 - 4/30/18
"If you have the bond in your own name and not your kid's, then if you spend the money on their higher education, the interest is tax-free. (There are income limitations on this, unfortunately, and of course the act of cashing out the bonds makes it harder to stay under the limit.)" Would...
- Wed Nov 08, 2017 11:39 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Help!... I need somebody... Help!... Not just anybody!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1992
Help!... I need somebody... Help!... Not just anybody!
A while back I downloaded an Excel spreadsheet that apparently used macros to grab current Yahoo Finance stock quotes to populate the spreadsheet. It also had some nifty pie charts for allocation %s, etc. The spreadsheet appears to have "protected" the macros as I cannot seem to access the...
- Thu Nov 02, 2017 10:55 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Small towns
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10709
Re: Small towns
My daughter lives in Knoxville. It's a pretty quaint little college town (Univ of TN and ORNL) on a beautiful river with good seasons. Cost of living is very inexpensive and there is no state income tax. Don't know about the rural/acreage situation but I suspect it is very reasonable. You are less t...
- Tue Oct 17, 2017 9:50 am
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: Scientists witness huge cosmic crash, find origins of gold
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5480
Re: Scientists witness huge cosmic crash, find origins of gold
130,000,000 years ago and 7,642,221,985,000,000,000,000 miles away... Dang!
- Tue Sep 19, 2017 10:32 am
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The GOLD scream room
- Replies: 3693
- Views: 1771074
Re: The GOLD scream room
"Mute" is the operative word... both in declines and advances... The HBPP is the Monroe shock absorber of portfolio strategies...
- Mon Jul 10, 2017 2:11 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Favorite Lesser-Known Movies & TV Series
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8070
Re: Favorite Lesser-Known Movies & TV Series
Off topic (well off media actually) but I just heard about a new fictional book by Lionel Shriver that might be a fun summer read for those of us with a more apocalyptic bent. Here is the top Amazon review: Lionel Shriver's new novel, "The Mandibles: A Family 2029-2047" is captivating, and...
- Thu May 18, 2017 12:41 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: The Canadian Permanent Portfolio
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10396
- Mon Apr 10, 2017 12:39 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Nobody believes in the Permanent Portfolio
- Replies: 163
- Views: 87322
Re: Nobody believes in the Permanent Portfolio
A picture is worth a thousand words... A variable chart is worth a thousand pictures...I think a great place to suggest to "seekers" is to send them to Tyler's excellent portfoliocharts.com site and let them play with the various portfolios or plug in what they are now doing and see how th...
- Tue Jan 10, 2017 1:07 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: PP FORUM STAYING -- details here
- Replies: 38
- Views: 27836
Re: PP FORUM STAYING -- details here
Many Thanks also, Xan... This forum has been part of my daily dose of sanity routine for over 5 years and like many others I would greatly miss the excellent and stimulating dialogue...
- Tue Jan 10, 2017 12:58 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: Gold Coin Counterfeiting today
- Replies: 39
- Views: 24308
Re: Gold Coin Counterfeiting today
dualstow, can you print the WSJ article to a pdf file and then post the pdf here?
- Fri Dec 16, 2016 9:14 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Apple Sucks, Doesn't it?
- Replies: 73
- Views: 36560
Re: Apple Sucks, Doesn't it?
It is so ironic that since Apple's 1984 Super Bowl ad introducing the Macintosh as the liberator from Big Brother, Apple has morphed into the an Orwellian Nanny control freak that keeps you tethered to the Apple Mothership... That's why I call them Crapple...
- Thu Aug 11, 2016 5:49 pm
- Forum: Stocks
- Topic: I think I'll rebalance today
- Replies: 35
- Views: 28234
Re: I think I'll rebalance today
I am sitting on about 35% cash right now but it is very tough to jump back in and rebalance with everything so "high"...
- Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:10 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Hoarding Cash
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14318
Re: Hoarding Cash
This may have been discussed elsewhere but it appears there is not only the a risk in keeping 25% of your assets in dollar-dominated currency or equivalent but now that "currency" is being increasingly pushed to 100% digital. Bad for the bad guys but also bad for those who may not want to...
- Sun Feb 07, 2016 8:39 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Retirement
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7863
Re: Retirement
At age 64 and having just survived a 20% layoff in my company (an oil & gas firm), I have been more or less forced to consider my vocational mortality far more than I would care to... One of the biggest obstacles is that I don't know how well I could handle the prospect of the loss of a steady i...
- Wed Jan 27, 2016 12:51 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Portfolio Charts
- Replies: 120
- Views: 43487
Re: Portfolio Charts
Tyler, I was wondering if you had given any more thought to a suggestion I made a while back (below)? One suggestion: Would it be difficult to post the last year few years of performance on the funnel chart (ie last 12 months under Year Invested 1, last 24 months under Year Invested 2 and so on sort...
- Wed Jan 13, 2016 12:45 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Iran Detains 10 US Sailors And Seizes Our Boats
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5708
Re: Iran Detains 10 US Sailors And Seizes Our Boats
PS, I just created a new post on this subject before I read this...
Interested to know your thoughts...
Interested to know your thoughts...
- Wed Jan 13, 2016 12:41 pm
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: BP for VP?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4485
BP for VP?
As a petroleum engineer nearing retirement (maybe sooner than I would chose), I have been taking more than a passing interest in the falling oil prices of late. It strikes me that unlike say gold, oil is currently a necessary global consumable commodity which cannot be replaced at near the current ...
- Thu Jan 07, 2016 12:53 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Merry Christmas!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2419
Re: Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!... Beautiful pic!
- Wed Jan 06, 2016 1:24 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Personal MBA (Josh Kaufman) & Permanent Portfolio Investing Strategy
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11365
Re: Personal MBA (Josh Kaufman) & Permanent Portfolio Investing Strategy
Just curious for an update on people's experience with FolioInvesting...
Thanks!
Thanks!
- Tue Dec 15, 2015 1:00 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: ...you know it's bad when...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2628
...you know it's bad when...
...people are giving gold away... ANAHEIM – Santa tossed a present into a Salvation Army red kettle over the weekend. A Canadian gold coin valued at about $1,200. “It popped out,” said Salvation Army spokesman Kevin White. “I’ve seen silver dollars, old coins, collectables, but not something like th...
- Wed Dec 09, 2015 1:33 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Religion Of Peace Visits California
- Replies: 120
- Views: 30339
Re: Religion Of Peace Visits California
I was struck with the new SUV that the pair were gunned down in... I initially wondered how they could afford such a car but came to understand later that it was a rental... As far as funding internal terrorism: Per Rueters: Online lender Prosper recently made a $28,500 loan to Syed Rizwan Farook w...
- Mon Dec 07, 2015 5:37 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Portfolio Charts
- Replies: 120
- Views: 43487
Re: Portfolio Charts
Tyler, awesome charts!... There isn't a day that goes by where I am not glancing at a printout of one of your funnel charts!... I find the funnel chart very soothing when the wheels seem to be flying off the wagon... One suggestions: Would it be difficult to post the last year few years of perform...