I was introduced to the Permanent Portfolio years ago (not long after the Great Recession) after listening to some old Harry Browne podcasts. For the gold portion, I went with GLD due to its simplicity and invested in it for my Roth IRA and Brokerage accounts, not being aware of the tax implication...

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Dec 22, 2025 1:52 pm I can’t sell gold, and I wish there was some group like AA that I could go to for this problem.

I can’t either. It’s all good.

What's driving silver now?

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 21, 2025 11:00 pm ChromeOS is probably my favourite Linux distro at this point

Being Canadian, you’re more used to having Big Brother watching over you.

Harry had thoughts on it, and as usual he turned out to be right. What does BND give you that you can’t get from a treasury fund with the duration of your choice? A little yield I guess. But the safety margin is not as good with BND.

BND is an all-bond index. I would say you are playing with fire, compared to a treasuries fund. Please look at what happened to corporate bonds in 08-09. Treasuries were the right answer then, and will be in the foreseeable future. I'm speaking from painful experience. When the time comes that treas...

Good timing for you two. I've never been able to sell at the top.
I think it has higher tops ahead. Probably not in the short term though. I wonder if this drop is due to profit-taking by Wall St.

I’m always bearish. If I followed my instincts, I’d have sold everything a long time ago. That’s why I like the PP so much.

Congrats Bird!

Everyone: Predictions?

A month ago $5000 would have sounded goofy. Now it seems like it will happen by the end of this month.

52.60 intra-day at the moment.

What quote symbols are out there for spot gold or a facsimile thereof? On the iOS Stocks app, which looks like it uses Yahoo Finance, I have to use GC=F. I think it's the expiring gold futures contract price. On some quote sites, there is XAU= , which is actually a spot quote. I think I read that GC...

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Mon Oct 13, 2025 6:24 pm

I Shrugged wrote: ↑Mon Oct 13, 2025 6:10 pm I would add Atlas Shrugged. Not exactly a quick read though.

Agreed. And perhaps Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

That one really applies. Phones today deliver the soma (drug from the book).

It crossed $50 today.

I would add Atlas Shrugged. Not exactly a quick read though.

I recently engaged with a lefty ex-co-worker I'm friends with on a similar topic. I don't think they are interested in prosperity, only in equality. They would rather live in a shithole where everyone is poor than tolerate the billionaires who create the stuff they use on a daily basis. I’m finally...

Dieter wrote: ↑Thu Oct 09, 2025 4:58 pm I'm an investment genius -- silver zagged in the appropriate (up) direction when gold zigged (down)

I've got a track record of close to 24 hours

Worship me!



(Just, ignore my IBIT purchase yesterday )

It’s always great when a plan works out.

One great thing I’ve found is that ChatGPT gives very good answers to Linux questions. How do I do get the DVD player working? Etc.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 09, 2025 1:07 pm It's so funny to see so many people on that forum still try to "explain away" gold's role in a portfolio. Unbelievable levels of willful blindness.

It's religious opposition. When they start talking about tinfoil hats, whiskey and bullets, etc., you know they cannot be reached.

Another tinfoil hat gold thread on BH.

In the great financial crisis of 08-09, gold did fine while miners got crushed in the rush to sell any and all stocks.

Hal wrote: ↑Sat Oct 04, 2025 4:33 am Happened to watch a BelangP video today. Below is a good summary of his approach.
But.... would not have wanted to be using his methodology in Japan

Everyone treats the recent Japanese results as though they cannot happen again somewhere, but….

CJ, years of austerity won’t be undertaken voluntarily. They will try to kick this down the road forever. Inflation is their only hope to get out of debt.

I’m so bad at market timing, so take this for what you paid for it. Gold is going a lot higher. Maybe not soon. But it has to.

ETFs in taxable are a PITA because most of them are setup as trusts, and trust expenses are not allowed to be part of your cost basis. So every year you have to track the expenses and then keep a special sheet so you can subtract them from your basis when you sell. Physical in taxable is a no brain...

ETFs in taxable are a PITA because most of them are setup as trusts, and trust expenses are not allowed to be part of your cost basis. So every year you have to track the expenses and then keep a special sheet so you can subtract them from your basis when you sell. Physical in taxable is a no brain...