i dont care for tips ... they may follow the cpi which is just a price change index through out the 1500 mini economies that make us up , but it is not linked at all to your personal cost of living .

Clarification/update per your PM: I will not renew them, barrett, but will leave the proceeds from matured bills to buy stocks and, if I can find them, some more gold coins. We had a bunch of T-Bills mature at Fidelity today. I replaced those will more T-Bills with maturities between six and 12 mon...

i just bought uso again .... over all uso has made money but i only hold it a day or two .. i buy after a tumble and sell first pop

That would be typical.....but so far futures down at least now and oil up ....I don’t hold these very long at all ......especially sdow that was down something like 22% today .....

Right now my one day a week of work is on hold so if I make a days pay I am happy

Futures down 85 ....come on sdow ......

bought today

4/06/2020

Buy 1,000 of USO at Market (Day) Filled at $5.47

04/06/2020

Buy 200 Shares of SDOW at Market (Day) Filled at $40.6801

3% real is what I meant. Can we dare assume 3% real, averaged over the next 5 years? 2% would be ok, too. I would like to think the PP could handle negative rates and float along giving better than 0.1% on a bank savings account. Therefore 2% real would be ok, too. That 1966-1981 era may be upon us...

I didn't aim my portfolio at the current financial climate. If I'd known what was going to happen, I'd have my own private jet by now. But for a disaster portfolio, it seems to be pretty successful so far. And it's about as simple as you can get: 2/3rd actual physical gold (geographically diverse) ...

There is never double taxation except on interest... It is a Susie ormann myth ...she used to tell her band of financial misfits it was double taxed to talk them out of it ..... Yes, that always irritated me. But she probably did more good than harm if she talked them out of taking loans to go on v...

There is never double taxation except on interest...

It is a Susie ormann myth ...she used to tell her band of financial misfits it was double taxed to talk them out of it .....

mathjak, I know you are a big stock guy and am curious what your allocation is after this drop. I thought you said somewhere (maybe earlier on this thread) that you were somewhere around 25%. Is that about right? Thanks. Yes ..... Over all I am about 25% equities... Very high cash levels though ......

gld/m has been around a while ..