Yes he does indeed At least he hasn’t started any new forever wars.

Remember this site? I learned about it on this forum.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds ... ant-chart/

Putin hasn't had to impose conscription, much of the numbers were first from emptying prisons along with mercenaries, then others recruited as mercenaries from Africa/etc. and then some from N Korea. That’s the official line, but this report from last April (yeah, I know, CNN) is one source saying ...

I recently found out that my cat is in the Epstein files.
Devastated.

I saw two news items recently:

(1) Zelensky says they’re killing Russians faster than they can be recruited.
(2) Russians are still making headway, just from the sheer number of soldiers.

Heard a third on the radio:

(3) Ukrainian solders on the front lines are freezing their sperm, just in case.

frugal wrote: ↑Sun Feb 15, 2026 2:37 am which other assets can should we add to VP ?

frugal, there’s no asset that you should add. You add what you want. It’s money that you can afford to lose.
Anything I buy that is not a pp asset, I consider part of the Vp. Individual stocks, silver coins.

Well, this is Vp

Alex Cohen @anothercohen on X (link at bottom) My team caught someone who sent an AI to interview in their place. It sounds so crazy that I didn't believe it until I reviewed the transcripts: Interviewer: "Can you tell us about yourself?" Candidate: "Absolutely! I'm a passionate profe...

mathjak107 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 13, 2026 7:14 am just keep it very low as far as a percentage .

i keep it at about 1.50% of invested assets.

With your net worth, that's a lot of money!

I saw him on Fox Biz yesterday and he seemed ok, but…I’m still afraid to buy in, even though I love the concept of using it as a medium of exchange.

What happens when Michael Saylor owns all the bitcoin?

Check this out, Xan

Absolutely.

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Interesting. This reminds me of an essay by… I can’t remember the name. It’s a website run by a very smart guy who uses a king from a deck of cards as the logo. You’ve probably read something by him. I’ll find it eventually and edit it in here. EDIT: Found it, or somewhat ironically, AI found it. Al...

P.S. This old thread was an interesting read through. Happy ending, too

viewtopic.php?t=8876

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 11, 2026 9:43 am Alan Greenspan turns 100-years old next month. Wow!

But is he still alive?

It’s probably just a headline.
Vinny tends to paste those without making it explicit that someone else wrote it.
Still, there is a link (which I have not clicked).

Thank you, CJ

I thought the whole urine in jars thing was just a Vinny quirk. But Google Gemini confirms it's a great way to tend to your plants and garden. It comes from the frugal mindset. Why waste / throw out what has value. I feel cheated when I'm out and don't get to capture it! Or restated, stop pissing a...

Dieter wrote: ↑Thu Feb 05, 2026 7:58 pm …
A good day to be in LTT

(which I'm not)

I haven’t looked yet. Still rooting for long bonds, despite the safe-haven status doubts.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 05, 2026 9:24 am I was definitely in that camp.

Fortunately dualstow talked some sense into me before the big drop and I went back to diversified investing.

Thank you, but I also talked sense into Greg when he was 4% in Tesla. Probably could’ve been rich

I don't think I saw this until today.
Yikes. Not good.

Tactical Assault Cat

I thought he asserted that the price of gold cannot be manipulated, even though everyone always decries manipulation by one entity or another.