Pointedstick wrote: I sold it all and replaced it with Schwab's commission-free SGOL. Too much drama for my taste.

Yep, just did the exact same.

I'm with you, AdamA. Getting pretty tired of the junk mail Sprott is sending. Was even called at home, ugh.

I usually test as ISTJ, although I'll test as INTJ every now & then.

When comparing a list of famous ISTJs vs INTJs, I strongly self-identify with the ISTJs.

Sapper, In another thread, you mentioned that 30-50 Aristocrats can act like a mini index. Are you tracking that many stocks, or maybe less since you are also invested in a stock index? Does your IPS limit the percent of your portfolio that any individual stock may take, ie Abbott Labs cannot be mor...

I've come to a similar conclusion as PS regarding buying/selling SGOL & GTU at Schwab. The difference in returns in 2008 for GLD & GTU are striking to me: 4.96 vs 26.05, respectively. Along the same line of "harvesting volatility", I also switched from LTTs into zeroes. Although I'...

My wife & I watched Kirk Cameron's "Saving Christmas" last Sunday. It's partway between storytelling & documentary, but didn't come across to me as either preaching or dry biblical research. It was certainly a different way of looking at Christmas, however. My wife & I did enjo...

+1 for HB Reader. I've actually copied & saved his post for my personal archives, because I don't assume everything on the internet will always be there for review. Heaven knows I've played around with the Boglehead forum's Simba spreadsheet far too much, so it's always a great sanity check to r...

Long time lurker here. I've read the epic PP posts over on the BH forum in their entirety & the PP books, both old & new. I'm hoping somebody with much better econ chops than I can help with Gibson's Paradox. From what I understand, Gibson's Paradox describes the counterintuitive finding tha...