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by dualstow
Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:32 am
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: New interview with Craig Rowland
Replies: 36
Views: 1798

Re: New interview with Craig Rowland

Always great to see you check in, Vil!
by dualstow
Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:29 am
Forum: Stocks
Topic: Why Value?
Replies: 24
Views: 604

Re: Why Value?

I understand. Thank you! If I recall, you had a portfolio checkup with Allan Roth or a similar professional which I’m sure helps one stick to the plan.
by dualstow
Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:49 pm
Forum: Stocks
Topic: Why Value?
Replies: 24
Views: 604

Re: Why Value?

ADDING to the above so that I don’t keep editing: What I mean is, if you individually bought and held the Magnificent 7, you would of course get dinged when one of them invariably slides. If you buy the total market, some unknown that you never would have thought to buy is going to grow to become p...
by dualstow
Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:10 pm
Forum: Stocks
Topic: Why Value?
Replies: 24
Views: 604

Re: Why Value?

Do you tilt to value, Kevin? I guess you adopted the Golden Butterfly. Did you tilt to small cap value or just value before Tyler invented that portfolio? TSM or Total Stock Market is just a mirror of the market, is it not? If Apple is a large part of VTSAX it’s because it’s a large part of the mark...
by dualstow
Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:20 pm
Forum: Stocks
Topic: Why Value?
Replies: 24
Views: 604

Re: Why Value?

… From what I could remember, all of the historical out performance is based on indexes that were not actual funds during the out performance times. … Hah! That’s a very very interesting find, if true, whatcha. I think I remember an article saying something along the same lines about funds in gener...
by dualstow
Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:50 pm
Forum: Stocks
Topic: Why Value?
Replies: 24
Views: 604

Re: Why Value?

At some point, the number of surly bogleheads grew too great in number for me to bear. And, if you respond to them the moderators treat you like you’re part of the problem.
Just ignore them, Smithers. Surf for info and never post there.
by dualstow
Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:18 am
Forum: Stocks
Topic: Why Value?
Replies: 24
Views: 604

Why Value?

Harry Browne eventually moved from a collection of Growth stock funds to the S&P 500. A lot of pp’ers seem to like value stocks. I am still partial to value stocks. ^-^ Every once in a while, I look at the performance of growth stock funds and value stock funds versus VTSAX, Vanguard’s total domesti...
by dualstow
Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:37 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
Replies: 2246
Views: 1146873

Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us

Smith1776 wrote:
Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:07 am
What do you guys like to do for fun dates when you take your spouse out? Dinner and movie is nice, but it's overdone. Anything off the beaten path you guys like?
It’s not off the beaten path but my favorite thing to do is to take walks together.
by dualstow
Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:43 am
Forum: Stocks
Topic: What am I missing here?
Replies: 15
Views: 425

Re: What am I missing here?

I still look at annual reports, but I don’t kid myself. Index funds for the core, for the bulk of stocks.
by dualstow
Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:20 pm
Forum: Bonds
Topic: What's the actual rationale for investing in long term bonds?
Replies: 15
Views: 575

Re: What's the actual rationale for investing in long term bonds?

Good Morning ArthurPooh, Maybe look at the issue from a different perspective. This is how I explained the PP to my late mother. 1. We put your money into 1/2 savings and 1/2 investments. 2. The savings are in 50% Gold, 50% Cash, just in case the AUD loses value 3. The investments are in 50% Shares...
by dualstow
Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:20 am
Forum: Stocks
Topic: What am I missing here?
Replies: 15
Views: 425

Re: What am I missing here?

Barrett: and the one-eyed man in the country of the blind is king!
Smithers: do you follow Value Stock Geek, featured in another thread?
by dualstow
Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:17 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Vinny VS email backdaters
Replies: 19
Views: 558

Re: Vinny VS email backdaters

That would be awesome if he responded but with a backdated email.
by dualstow
Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:13 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: YouTube Junkie
Replies: 1230
Views: 588735

Re: YouTube Junkie

Thanks for this! I love the gibberish he throws in there. Perfect. I have got through listening to the first two hours of Robert Hur testifying at the House. All of a sudden it hit me that the Biden defenders / supporters main message is: "Your honor! Yes, my client is a murderer. But he's NOT a Se...
by dualstow
Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:05 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
Replies: 2246
Views: 1146873

Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us

That is definitely Vinny’s house. What were you using Python for? Tinkering with AI? :) Just playing with programming for the sake of programming. I used to enjoy it as a teenager, solving problems step by step. I never got good enough to cut it as a professional code monkey. Not even close. Suddenl...
by dualstow
Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:05 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
Replies: 2246
Views: 1146873

Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us

Smith1776 wrote:
Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:33 am
JavaScript still sucks. >:D
Do you like Python? I’ve played with it a little bit. Just an amateur interest.
by dualstow
Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:02 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: YouTube Junkie
Replies: 1230
Views: 588735

Re: YouTube Junkie

Dana Carvey on Biden and the border O0
https://youtu.be/uOQYQ6ptIyE
by dualstow
Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:59 pm
Forum: Stocks
Topic: What am I missing here?
Replies: 15
Views: 425

Re: What am I missing here?

I agree to a great extent. However, it’s not about just wealth, but value, Barrett. New treatments for ailments, the democratization of the cellphone, etc. Granted there are all kinds of problems — surprise medical costs & out-of-pocket health insurance rates; unaffordable housing, and so forth. But...
by dualstow
Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:43 am
Forum: Stocks
Topic: What am I missing here?
Replies: 15
Views: 425

Re: What am I missing here?

• 50K to 350K over 15 years is 13.85% annualized, right? Is that so dramatic? This is why I’ve always been stock heavy. • As we know, the market moves in fits and starts, thus “time in the market, not timing the market.” What was that ten-year period where the S&P returned nothing? Maybe 2000 to 201...
by dualstow
Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:11 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
Replies: 2246
Views: 1146873

Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us

Wait, you were in Switzerland?

Everyone knows about haggis, Mountaineer. O0 It’s too extreme to not hear about it.

Smithers, you must be relieved, pun intended, to be back in your home bathroom.
by dualstow
Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:16 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
Replies: 2246
Views: 1146873

Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us

… Dual, FWIW my wife had Hungarian friends a couple houses away from her where she grew up. Lots of cabbage rolls were made and consumed. She taught my wife how to make them. We still enjoy them occasionally. Now I’m really ashamed that I don’t know cabbage rolls, as I’m Hungarian (3rd generation t...
by dualstow
Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:57 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
Replies: 2246
Views: 1146873

Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us

Does chocolate count? Some would say that only chocolate counts. Or at least, that's what Count Chocula says. When my girlfriend and I lived in Moscow, it seemed like every apartment bldg also sold something on the ground floor. One had a bakery. Another sold chocolate from the famous 'Red October' ...
by dualstow
Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:32 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
Replies: 2246
Views: 1146873

Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us

LOL I love looking at the photos! I just feel like I'm already responsible for too many posts. As much as I do post, I'm actually holding back so that it's not my name all over the screen anytime someone selects New Posts.

Glad you made it back safe and sound.

Favorite meal eaten in Ukraine?
by dualstow
Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:30 am
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: 15 Funds That Have Destroyed the Most Wealth Over the Past Decade
Replies: 1
Views: 438

Re: 15 Funds That Have Destroyed the Most Wealth Over the Past Decade

No, but I know people who jumped on the ARK fund bandwagon.
by dualstow
Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:45 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
Replies: 2246
Views: 1146873

Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us

Whither Smithers?
Still abroad?
by dualstow
Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:15 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Vinny VS email backdaters
Replies: 19
Views: 558

Re: Vinny VS email backdaters

He’s on twitter @ValueStockGeek
Maybe you could ask him what’s up if you have an account there.