IMO, all states or none....

And something similar for Congressional districts to reduce impact of Gerymandandering?

And more use of ranked choice voting...

When Pilgrims arrived there were no welfare of Medicare or Social Security and they had to rely on themselves. For decades after that people came to America in search of freedom and ability to build better life for themselves and their children. But nowadays there is a growing group of population t...

1NV35T0R (Greg) wrote: I like the new format. The only thing I don't was I lost my stars and now I have a boring polygon. I liked having 5 stars, it made me feel like Eisenhower (i.e. last 5-star U.S. general)

I thought Bradly was the last 5-star (too lazy to look up right now)

I now forget who suggested it, but there is an old thread on boggle heads about getting similar return with fewer funds, splitting value plays accross geography, such as:   US Large Balanced (S&P 500)   Intl Large Value   US Small Cap Value   Intl Small Cap Balanced If you do REIT and the above, can...

I Bonds could also be an option (10k per year per SSN) Haven't done myself yet, but thinking of putting some of my emergency fund in there over time (can't withdraw within first year, loose three months interest if withdraw in first 5 years. I have some PERM in my Roth, which is deep emergency fund ...

Re continuing to contribute to your 401(k) - if you have a match, I'd consider continuing to contribute up to that amount. Then into a [Roth] IRA. One thing I'd also look at would be the Vanguard GNMA fund in your 401(k) - 15ish percent would get you close to 50/50 stock/bond (even if none/few of th...

Thanks. I might need to look for it. I guess no TV and the lack of EM fields causes everyone to be beautiful.... Now is this show related to the gun thread and the scheduled end of the world in late December?

How was it? Sounds similar to the "Dies the Fire" SF book series by S.M. Stirling, although more stuff stops working (anything high pressure) and SCA folks (Society for Creative Anachronism) try to take over....

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dies_the_Fire

Just want to thank various folks, esp Clive and MedumTex, for the PP info that you provide here and on Bogglehead. Haven't gone all in on a PP, but have started the journey and have changed the way that at I look at investing (prosperity, inflation, deflation, recession.) Given the items on the fina...

Personally I prefer the giant sprawling one.  I can buy the tax advantaged asset in each account and eventually end up with a little in all of my accounts for rebalancing purposes.  I think the PP works best in this manner, with tax heavy assets like Treasury bonds doing best in your 401k, while ta...