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- Thu Sep 11, 2025 5:39 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Cell Phone
- Replies: 43
- Views: 13564
Re: Cell Phone
I think I am going to switch my family's phones over to US Mobile. I used them a while back and their support was excellent. Just talked their support recently because I am going move from Verizon and their support again was excellent. Plus you can switch between AT&T (Darkstar) Verizon (Warp) a...
- Thu Sep 11, 2025 5:32 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Paul Belanger Book Evidence Based Wealth
- Replies: 1
- Views: 255
Paul Belanger Book Evidence Based Wealth
I am a fan of Paul Belanger (BelangP youtube channel). Just got his book and so far so good. Still gettting through the basic economics and monetary policy stuff in the first few chapters but do not want to skip over it. Its a good refresher.
- Thu Sep 11, 2025 5:26 pm
- Forum: Bonds
- Topic: Moving up to 4.9%
- Replies: 129
- Views: 152226
Re: Moving up to 4.9%
Just bought another slug at 4.7 ish. I missed the recent 4.9.
Re: Gold ETF
I believe the IAUM custodian is JP Morgan and the GLDM custodian is HSBC. One is US based one is not. But at this rate who knows if you can trust either one of them. I could be off but I think this was the case last time I checked.
- Fri May 23, 2025 11:36 am
- Forum: Stocks
- Topic: Other Peoples Money and High Frequency Bots
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5831
Re: Other Peoples Money and High Frequency Bots
These fake post are a nuisance. Thanks @Xan!
- Sun Mar 30, 2025 1:34 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Starting new portfolio for a child – PP or VTI?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13603
Re: Starting new portfolio for a child – PP or VTI?
For my kids I do the total stock market index only with dividends reinvested. They have the beauty of time and do not have to smooth out volatility at the cost of returns. Plus I don’t want them to have to deal with the cognitive load / demand of thinking about this stuff. Set and forget for a long ...
- Sat Mar 01, 2025 8:31 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1386
- Views: 1549519
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Very sad to watch Zelensky blow it so badly. IMHO He should resign so the war can end. Also Trump was skillfully handling Zelensky’s foolishness. Then Vance caused a serious problem. Vance is a young inexperienced guy who should have stayed quiet. If he had the deal would have closed. Intentional/b...
- Sat Mar 01, 2025 1:23 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1386
- Views: 1549519
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Very sad to watch Zelensky blow it so badly. IMHO He should resign so the war can end. Also Trump was skillfully handling Zelensky’s foolishness. Then Vance caused a serious problem. Vance is a young inexperienced guy who should have stayed quiet. If he had the deal would have closed.
- Fri Feb 28, 2025 11:36 am
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: Great Idea by Judy Shelton - Gold Bond
- Replies: 9
- Views: 12911
Great Idea by Judy Shelton - Gold Bond
Treasury bond that pays you back, in dollars, the gold price after a certain number of years. Tie borrowing to gold without having to have convert to gold.
- Fri Feb 28, 2025 10:47 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1386
- Views: 1549519
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Zelensky will be at the White House today to sell his country to the US.
- Mon Feb 24, 2025 6:01 pm
- Forum: Stocks
- Topic: Excellent Interview with Larry [Swedroe]
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10922
Excellent Interview with Larry [Swedroe]
He goes through many of the behavioral biases that cause people to underperform. Also he pretty much nails why its so hard to sell a winner and buy a loser (IE rebalance).
- Sun Feb 23, 2025 1:11 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: New Here - What are folks investing in
- Replies: 42
- Views: 52849
Re: New Here - What are folks investing in
Golden Butterfly in my 401k and basic stock in taxable that is slowly backing into gold, treasuries, small cap value. But still mostly stocks. I also would not do cash in the 401k in hindsight. Hi 👋🏻 Which etfs do you have on it and why GB instead of HBPP? 🤗 IAUM / VTI / mostly VBR, AVUV (consideri...
- Sun Feb 23, 2025 1:01 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Grilling Fauci
- Replies: 51
- Views: 53730
Re: Grilling Fauci
What it is was an aburdly transparent creation of a virus in a lab that was funded by a convoluted chain of US funding because this type of virus development is possibly the most dangerous technology on the planet and I believe is not legal.
- Fri Feb 21, 2025 6:24 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: Good experience selling to JM Bullion
- Replies: 21
- Views: 31104
Re: Good experience selling to JM Bullion
Very helpful thread. I’ve heard there is no reporting requirements when you sell under a certain amount to a local coin shop. Is that true? And if so is it also true for large dealers like Apmex and jmbullion. Incidentally I just purchased from jmbullion for the first time. Good experience.
- Fri Feb 21, 2025 6:10 pm
- Forum: Stocks
- Topic: The Great Taking.We don’t really own our stocks
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10935
Re: The Great Taking.We don’t really own our stocks
I believe ownership of stocks was previously private property and it has been changed. Your broker historical has been a custodian of your stocks. But now they are something else.
- Thu Feb 20, 2025 6:53 pm
- Forum: Stocks
- Topic: The Great Taking.We don’t really own our stocks
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10935
The Great Taking.We don’t really own our stocks
https://youtu.be/dk3AVceraTI?si=K7A9ytWrvCr4Ta7U Basically I believe the gist of it is a broker use your stocks as collateral when they are doing financial “things”. If they can’t pay the money they borrowed back your stock is going to the creditor. I believe it’s article 8 of the uniform civil code.
- Thu Feb 20, 2025 6:40 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1386
- Views: 1549519
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
You may be right about the Russian settlement of that region but I have heard he only sent a small portion of his army to fight. Something like five or ten percent. That does not sound like he was trying to conquer Ukraine. Regardless of that, he may be successful based on the negotiated outcome. A ...
- Thu Feb 20, 2025 11:32 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1386
- Views: 1549519
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
I think the probabilities of a war are what can be more determined. There is a .01 percent chance I will fall off a cliff if I am in the middle of the desert. 5 percent if I am near a cliff. 80 percent if I am standing next to a cliff besides a crazy person. 70 percent chance of getting run over by ...
- Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:37 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1386
- Views: 1549519
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
https://palexander.substack.com/p/f-trump-and-his-sh-y-supposed-peace …said Ryan O’Leary, an Iraq war veteran who leads Chosen Company, one of the largest foreign volunteer units in Ukraine. “Any peace deal is ultimately up to Ukrainians alone, who should be included directly in talks. Neither Trum...
- Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:34 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1386
- Views: 1549519
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
https://palexander.substack.com/p/f-trump-and-his-sh-y-supposed-peace …said Ryan O’Leary, an Iraq war veteran who leads Chosen Company, one of the largest foreign volunteer units in Ukraine. “Any peace deal is ultimately up to Ukrainians alone, who should be included directly in talks. Neither Trum...
- Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:24 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1386
- Views: 1549519
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
and Ukraine will not be in NATO Why would it want to? Many trusted the US, adopted the dollar as a primary trade settlement currency in place of gold and accepted it exporting inflation to help fund a massive military might for collective defense - but now see the light (trust and support was mispl...
- Tue Feb 18, 2025 1:51 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Grilling Fauci
- Replies: 51
- Views: 53730
Re: Grilling Fauci
And if you think about the pure absurdity of fauci claiming with a straight face the coronavirus came from a market adjacent to the lab where the ecohealth alliance was funding research into the exact virus. These people should be held accountable. And going so far as to attempt to discredit and rui...
- Tue Feb 18, 2025 1:42 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Grilling Fauci
- Replies: 51
- Views: 53730
Re: Grilling Fauci
Keep in mind this hearing took place during the Biden administration. USAID is already one casualty. These guys are probably furiously making deals to stay out of DOGE and Trump’s crosshairs. https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-ecohealth-alliance-should-be-criminally-investigated-for...
- Tue Feb 18, 2025 1:20 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Grilling Fauci
- Replies: 51
- Views: 53730
Re: Grilling Fauci
Capture.JPG I think he funded gain of function research at the Wuhan lab through something called Ecohealth Alliance and USAID. IF so ... was it done for any malicious intent? Any personal monetary gain? What was the motivation? Vaguely I believe it was to circumvent the US prohibition on gain of f...
- Tue Feb 18, 2025 1:02 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1386
- Views: 1549519
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Sorry I can’t help but be sarcastic here. We (the American public) are going to feel great about saving Ukraine when the war ends. And the US and possibly Russia are going to go in and pillage Ukraine’s natural resources as the price for peace and Ukraine will not be in NATO and they are going to l...