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- Sun Jan 01, 2023 7:43 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: 2022 Returns
- Replies: 44
- Views: 22078
Re: 2022 Returns
Point to point and much of yearly gains are just down to the valuations/prices at those times. If/when a calendar year start and end date values align with a respective peak and trough then that years outcome will obviously tend to be poor. As might a years trough and peak alignment transition tend ...
- Sat Dec 31, 2022 10:05 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1161
- Views: 830326
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
She's fearful of a nuclear war, in a world ever closer to such from increasing fronts (N Korea, Iran ...etc.). Meh! We're all going to die ... some day. I live in a major city (London) so a near instant death albeit sooner than later - is a better way to go then many other ways. If mankind goes ext...
- Sat Dec 31, 2022 9:48 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1161
- Views: 830326
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Long game (perhaps by 2027) https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_1511 The European Commission has today [March 2022] proposed an outline of a plan to make Europe independent from Russian fossil fuels well before 2030 We must become independent from Russian oil, coal and gas. W...
- Sat Dec 31, 2022 5:53 am
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: Liquidate Some Roth Space to Buy Physical Gold?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7213
Re: Liquidate Some Roth Space to Buy Physical Gold?
The PP is potentially good for 'tax harvesting' I don't know about US Roth/IRA ... whatever but consider a case of where ... Capital gains on domestic gold coins are tax exempt, no different to if copper prices rose you don't pay capital gains tax on copper coins (not that really applies anymore as ...
- Fri Dec 30, 2022 11:03 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1161
- Views: 830326
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
She's fearful of a nuclear war, in a world ever closer to such from increasing fronts (N Korea, Iran ...etc.). Meh! We're all going to die ... some day. I live in a major city (London) so a near instant death albeit sooner than later - is a better way to go then many other ways. If mankind goes exti...
- Fri Dec 30, 2022 10:25 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The GOLD scream room
- Replies: 3689
- Views: 1658291
Re: The GOLD scream room
Testers such as Sigma Metalytics Precious Metal Verifier PMV PRO are pricey, around $2K, but for regular buyers provide a quick and easy test https://i.postimg.cc/wxZ651w9/sm.png Less expensive ($1K) alternatives are around, but may not penetrate right through and could miss a tungsten core. Seajay...
- Thu Dec 29, 2022 5:22 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The GOLD scream room
- Replies: 3689
- Views: 1658291
Re: The GOLD scream room
I see they suggest not buying 22K gold coins and sticks with 24K for the reason I mentioned above. Is your timbre check what will help me detect a fake if it passes this plastic test? Yes, the ring test needs to be done in combination with the size and weight test. It may be possible to construct a...
- Thu Dec 29, 2022 4:01 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1161
- Views: 830326
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Some possibilities yet to come 1. The possible ejection of Russia from the UN. A terrorist organization with a UN veto is laughable. Is The Federation of Russia a Member of the United Nations? Ukraine says they are not. The dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991 left unresolved the issue o...
- Thu Dec 29, 2022 3:43 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1161
- Views: 830326
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
That's the point here. Just because they couldn't have a little foresight to see that flirting with NATO was going to bring huge problems their way, doesn't mean that we should be shipping weapons over there to try to bail them out at the last minute. ... I'm not as cynical as some, but I certainly...
- Wed Dec 28, 2022 12:11 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1161
- Views: 830326
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Western Ukraine is very anti-Russian. Eastern Ukraine leans more toward Russia. ... as socially engineered by Russia. Send in migrants, force schools to only teach in Russian and Russian doctrine. Inciting a war that started eight years ago in response to such a social engineered invasion. Not the ...
- Wed Dec 28, 2022 12:01 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1161
- Views: 830326
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
But would you agree, stuper that they have made up their own minds to fight? They are not automatons who are continuing to fight because we're giving them weaponry. (Yes, I do recall previous notes from Silent Majority about the U.S. meddling with Ukraine's gov't. I acknowledge those). Rather, they...
- Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:33 pm
- Forum: Stocks
- Topic: Buy and Hold Stock Millionaires
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9746
Re: Buy and Hold Stock Millionaires
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?...
- Fri Dec 23, 2022 3:46 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: West Provokes Russia to Protect Russians in Ukraine
- Replies: 99
- Views: 152671
Re: West Provokes Russia to Protect Russians in Ukraine
I say as an American practicing Christian, God willing Russia will win and teach the warmongering American leadership class to stop meddling in other countries' business, most of which they do not because of a selfless desire to spread freedom and democracy to the rest of the world but just to fatt...
- Fri Dec 23, 2022 3:11 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Huh, 1/N Asset Allocation is Quite Robust
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3414
Re: Huh, 1/N Asset Allocation is Quite Robust
Interesting. I was not familiar with this but found some more context in a 2011 paper that was also in support. http://arno.uvt.nl/show.cgi?fid=129399 In circa 400 A.D. Jewish Rabbi Issac Bar Aha recommended always to invest a third into land, a third into merchandise and to keep a third at hand. T...
- Thu Dec 22, 2022 2:21 am
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The GOLD scream room
- Replies: 3689
- Views: 1658291
Re: The GOLD scream room
That Bullion DNA looks pretty cool -- https://www.mint.ca/en/bullion/bullion-dna -- but what about all the old coins? Fascinating, thanks for sharing. Validating my decision to go with the silver maple leafs for this order. Neat. Well, that and the fact that Silver Eagles are around 75% over spot r...
- Thu Dec 22, 2022 1:59 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: West Provokes Russia to Protect Russians in Ukraine
- Replies: 99
- Views: 152671
Re: West Provokes Russia to Protect Russians in Ukraine
As I'm reading that line that says "The war can end only in Vladimir Putin's defeat," I'm thinking: or it could end in a huge nuclear conflagration with untold millions of people dead. Pretty much a global catastrophe. UK/West have very finite resources to sustain conventional warfare, weeks. UK ha...
- Thu Dec 22, 2022 1:37 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: West Provokes Russia to Protect Russians in Ukraine
- Replies: 99
- Views: 152671
Re: West Provokes Russia to Protect Russians in Ukraine
Defending "Russian's" within Ukraine were "Russian's" installed by Russia. Migration, force educators to only speak Russian and instate Russian states of minds, then rebel and seize.
- Thu Dec 22, 2022 1:34 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: West Provokes Russia to Protect Russians in Ukraine
- Replies: 99
- Views: 152671
Re: West Provokes Russia to Protect Russians in Ukraine
Well, I mean, surely you can see the hypocrisy in Boris Johnson's approach, can't you? If the war can end only in Vladimir Putin's defeat (I mean, who writes this stuff? But okay, whatever), then why aren't the UK, US, etc. sending their men and women over there to help shoulder the burden of fight...
- Wed Dec 21, 2022 6:57 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: West Provokes Russia to Protect Russians in Ukraine
- Replies: 99
- Views: 152671
Re: West Provokes Russia to Protect Russians in Ukraine
why aren't the UK, US, etc. sending their men and women over there to help shoulder the burden of fighting and dying? Increasingly more countries are moving away from using the US Dollar as a primary reserve/trading currency. There's less of a concern/issue for Europe/UK about such a move as only t...
- Wed Dec 21, 2022 12:29 am
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The GOLD scream room
- Replies: 3689
- Views: 1658291
Re: The GOLD scream room
That 'DNA' is a great idea. If I understand correctly each coin in effect having the equivalent of a serial number that can identify it, but in a manner where its nigh on impossible to replicate (at least cost efficiently). No two coins perfectly the same, no matter how hard you might try, where the...
- Sun Dec 11, 2022 2:31 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: PP YTD performance - was it the worst ever?
- Replies: 117
- Views: 33676
Re: PP YTD performance - was it the worst ever?
Since 2013 (Yellen), and there's been a return to a semi-pegging, a multi-facet gold/dollar standard and as such gold has been flatish/range-bound. Not doing what otherwise might have been expected. As such the PP would seem to be performing more as-expected in other countries, whilst not so in the...
- Thu Dec 08, 2022 6:48 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: PP YTD performance - was it the worst ever?
- Replies: 117
- Views: 33676
Re: PP YTD performance - was it the worst ever?
Yep...I don't have my data in front of me but correlations have been on the rise for a while now. Since 2013 (Yellen), and there's been a return to a semi-pegging, a multi-facet gold/dollar standard and as such gold has been flatish/range-bound. Not doing what otherwise might have been expected. As...
- Sat Dec 03, 2022 6:49 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Help a newbie to trust the PP
- Replies: 56
- Views: 11222
- Tue Nov 29, 2022 6:17 am
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: Gold will rise when Fed stops raising interest rates?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 18459
- Mon Nov 28, 2022 10:41 am
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: Time to buy more physical gold
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3408
Re: Time to buy more physical gold
Internationally as one board member might be looking to add gold, another might be looking to reduce. For instance gold in non US dollar countries has risen, in the US its down. There are forums around where members exchange (trade) gold, where often the seller is content with spot price as is the b...