Actually I think most people who voted for Biden could not tell you what his policies are if you asked them. They voted for him because they were told so by numerous mainstream media outlets. If you ask these people for reasons, you would hear the following: 1) they hated trump. 2) sunshine and poni...

Would you consider something like BullionVault, which has storage in Singapore, Switzerland, etc? You can have your holdings in specific reserved bars (by serial#) vs generic allocated storage, if you like. I'm not affiliated, but am a customer. I'm looking at their website now. Storage fee is only...

Bring on the $15 minimum wage! If it passes, buy stock in this company immediately.

https://misorobotics.com/flippy/

This is another thing I don't get. Why would stores open in high crime areas, particularly when they get no help from the city because of idiotic things like bail reform and defunding of police? Mostly they don't. This is why there's so much squawking about "food deserts" in slums where t...

Regarding state income tax, these are the websites you need to check when you go to file your taxes: For Vanguard: https://personal.vanguard.com/pdf/USGO_012021.pdf VUSXX reports 94.19% of income from US government obligations in 2020. They also provide the % of assets invested in USG obligations at...

@ Maddy: The risk of using a Treasury money market fund that employs repos is very small. I use FDLXX, Fidelity's Treasury money market fund specifically because it does not invest in Treasury repos. However, kevin K is correct: FDLXX has a 0.29% net expense ration, or slightly more expensive than ...

Bonds are great to buy on Fidelity, but if you ever want to sell them without having to spend an hour or two on the phone, make sure to buy in lots of at least $10,000 (Face value). Also, having part of your bond allocation in FNGBX (mutual fund) gives you a nice mix of purity and convenience. For s...

Great idea. Then the southern border would become a lot smaller. Easier to build a wall especially with lots of cheap labor near at hand. And, it would get a lot cheaper and easier to fly to Cancun for spring break! and, get cheap avocados and tropical fruits in grocery stores. The big question is w...

Re "Let's debate the Permanent Portfolio"

Let's not.

Xan can you put this thread into the Variable Portfolio subforum where it belongs? Thanks.

A hopeful sign that "cancel culture" won't yet be the last word: https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/soon-to-disappear-dr-seuss-books-now-selling-for-as-high-as-20k-on-ebay/ar-BB1eawKb Once those titles are out of print, look for someone to make them available as online pdfs...

A big factor in inflation is wage increases. A cornerstone of Democratic Party policy is to throw the borders wide open and grant citizenship to something on the order of 20M people already in the US illegally. Whether this is on purpose I don't know, but it is bound to result in a large oversupply ...

Tough choice. I found that selling bonds on discount brokerage platforms can get pretty tricky. I would not buy bonds in lots smaller than 10 (i.e. $10K face value). To be on the safe side you might want to go higher, like 20. I'd suggest accumulating money in TLT, then when you hit a certain amount...

Great stories, for sure. But, for every one of those winners, there are probably at least 10 losers who bought stocks in companies that went bust. LIke, say, Enron. Or Eastman Kodak. Or Woolworths. What would have happened to a person who bought the equivalent of an index fund instead of stock XYZ? ...

Who couldn't see this coming? Evidently Russia was only given 5 min advance notice. Their military presence in Syria is at the request of Assad. Looks like more military adventures in our future. So we'll get what the liberals wanted all along, war, and nicer tweets. Wow. When Biden's election was ...

I Shrugged wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 12:58 pm I always thought a very, very thin book would be, "Women who like Monty Python".

Bravo Sophie!

Thanks!

I think the very thin book would be "Women Geeks" - but if you start with that subset, you'll find no shortage of Monty Python fans. Maddy - what about you???

Also regarding the above. Executive Editor Dean Baquet had previously declined to fire Mr. McNeil over the two-year-old incident, saying it was clear the term hadn’t been uttered in a “hateful or malicious” way. But that was before a tsunami of intolerance from the forces of tolerance inside the pa...

Ah, don't fool yourselves. This article was all about Trump. If you actually read it, Trump is mentioned (negatively of course) in almost every sentence.

When, at any given time, more than half of the topics newly posted to Politics consist of nothing more than cut-and-pasted articles of a particular political persuasion--most offering little or no analysis or even comment--you've got a problem. I'd call it abuse with an agenda, but that's just me. ...

"The Republican members of Congress said the exchange showed Trump had no intention of calling off the rioters even as lawmakers were pleading with him to intervene. Several said it amounted to a dereliction of his presidential duty." https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/trump-re...

Per an article I read somewhere: CBO says it would lift 800K people out of poverty, but at the cost of 1.4 million jobs. Didn't specify whether the 800K figure was net of the job losses, or if the 1.4 million jobs lost would plunge some large number of people into poverty that would have to be subtr...

Fortunately for Trump and also for the rest of us, you can't convict someone because you don't like their personality. It kind of goes along with the free speech thing. There's nothing in the first amendment that says your freedom to say what you think is limited by what other people might find offe...

SomeDude, with all due respect...did you read this article? The guy in question is being charged with a crime, and the fact that he held top secret clearances while apparently organizing and planning the protest has the FBI (presumably) concerned. There's nothing in here that indicates he was in the...

OK so let me get this straight. BLM/Antifa protestors riot for months, doing billions of dollars of property damage and killing a number of people. Left-wing governors implement lockdowns, interfering with citizens' lives and destroying their livelihoods in many cases, all without a shred of scienti...

Don't they send the coins via registered mail?

If your local post office is leaving those on your doorstep, that's reportable. They shouldn't deliver without a signature.

You have to remember who is counting those approval ratings. It's the same organizations that predicted a landslide victory for Biden. Regardless of what you think about ballot box stuffing, if you take the election outcomes as is the polls were WAY off. I hardly think the approval ratings will be a...