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by HB Reader
Fri Jun 26, 2015 3:45 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Funds
Topic: Is It Time For PRPFX To Shine?
Replies: 17
Views: 31458

Re: Is It Time For PRPFX To Shine?

Does anyone recall any postings showing the annual results of a pairing of PRPFX with EDV or TLT (say 90/10 or 85/15)?

I thought I had seen one or two, but can't seem to find them.
by HB Reader
Tue Jun 16, 2015 4:52 pm
Forum: Gold
Topic: Sprott Intends to Make Exchange Offers for Central GoldTrust and Silver Bullion
Replies: 192
Views: 97208

Re: Sprott Intends to Make Exchange Offers for Central GoldTrust and Silver Bullion

Well, all of my GTU holdings are in retirement accounts so I plan to accept the tender offer.  I have no tax issues.  I have always tried to buy gold as directly as possible.  Over many years, the problem of the dearth of viable gold retirement account vehicles became one of the more vexing problem...
by HB Reader
Mon Jun 15, 2015 9:55 pm
Forum: Gold
Topic: Sprott Intends to Make Exchange Offers for Central GoldTrust and Silver Bullion
Replies: 192
Views: 97208

Re: Sprott Intends to Make Exchange Offers for Central GoldTrust and Silver Bullion

Well, all of my GTU holdings are in retirement accounts so I plan to accept the tender offer.  I have no tax issues.  I have always tried to buy gold as directly as possible.  Over many years, the problem of the dearth of viable gold retirement account vehicles became one of the more vexing problems...
by HB Reader
Mon Jun 08, 2015 2:53 pm
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Stock Pickers and tech trend watchers: The Economist on Intel vs. ARM
Replies: 11
Views: 6455

Re: Stock Pickers and tech trend watchers: The Economist on Intel vs. ARM

Wow, it looks like Storm has done really well with ARM Holdings (ARMH) if he held on. I couldn't get the custom chart to work today in yahoo, but looking at the 5YR chart for ARMH vs INTC, it's a smackdown. I think he did a lot better in Bitcoins. Speaking of Bitcoins, I highly recommend the book D...
by HB Reader
Sun Jun 07, 2015 4:39 pm
Forum: Gold
Topic: War on Gold and the Financial Endgame
Replies: 32
Views: 13622

Re: War on Gold and the Financial Endgame

Can't resist sharing this funny Q & A from Scott Burns ' regular column in the Dallas Morning News: Scott Burns is a really good guy.  Going back almost 20 years, I would occasionally send him comments regarding his columns and he always came back with friendly and helpful replies. Later on, he hel...
by HB Reader
Wed Apr 08, 2015 11:10 am
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: PP ....Where Did It Go
Replies: 58
Views: 29239

Re: PP ....Where Did It Go

This forum is plenty active, but I think that by and large, all the tough questions about the PP itself have been answered to a good enough standard that there's no reason to go over things again and again. At this point, the forum is pretty much a honeypot for highly intelligent people to talk abo...
by HB Reader
Thu Mar 26, 2015 8:11 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Some perspective: PP vs Boglehead 50/50 portfolio
Replies: 9
Views: 5905

Re: Some perspective: PP vs Boglehead 50/50 portfolio

Whenever I feel like backsliding, I listen to CS&N's "Almost Cut My Hair" and run etfplay.com using GLD,TLT,VTI,SHY @ 25% each vs VBINX from 1/1/2007 to current...  That also doesn't take into account rebalancing but it does show why I like the HBPP in potentially troubling times... Yeah, my reacti...
by HB Reader
Thu Mar 26, 2015 9:44 am
Forum: Gold
Topic: What Drives Gold
Replies: 15
Views: 10798

Re: What Drives Gold

Here is something I posted early last year relating to drivers of gold investment demand.  Just my two cents.....

http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/go ... /#msg89711
by HB Reader
Fri Jan 02, 2015 5:50 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: It's all about China
Replies: 123
Views: 63170

Re: It's all about China

MomTo2Boys, Thank you so much for taking the time to share your perspective on China.  Much to admire, much to question.  Having lived Latin America as a child, and now as a retired USG employee that dealt with foreign officials over a host of monetary/economic issues, I think few Americans really a...
by HB Reader
Fri Nov 07, 2014 10:59 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: 30/60/10 vs HBPP
Replies: 36
Views: 23356

Re: 30/60/10 vs HBPP

I think many of the comparisons here that span the 1960s to early 1980s are a little unrealistic as they don’t comport with the reality that was faced by most small investors during that period.  Few individual investors would have been able to cost-effectively benefit from the returns in “intermedi...
by HB Reader
Thu Oct 30, 2014 7:54 pm
Forum: Gold
Topic: Gold Price Since 2001
Replies: 5
Views: 4212

Re: Gold Price Since 2001

There must have been a thread or three about this already but I haven't seen anything yet... Absent dramatic inflation here in the US in the last 30 plus years, why did gold go so high in the period between 2001 & 2012? Loss of confidence in the US Dollar? Inflation outside of the US? Jim Rickards ...
by HB Reader
Thu Sep 11, 2014 8:43 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Drinking is healthy
Replies: 28
Views: 16092

Re: Drinking is healthy

Desert wrote:
Ad Orientem wrote: Image
:)  I'm going to have a beer tonight, just to be safe.
Have a second, and be doubly safe! 
by HB Reader
Fri Sep 05, 2014 4:38 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Funds
Topic: Proposal To Change This Section To "Other Lazy Portfolios"
Replies: 29
Views: 47016

Re: Proposal To Change This Section To "Other Lazy Portfolios"

Does it seem that these forums have been running on autopilot recently without real direction or leadership? I've noticed how many of the great posters are gone. I don't know how others feel, but I think we have pretty much exhausted the discussion on the PP.  I have used it for many years and plan...
by HB Reader
Tue Aug 19, 2014 10:33 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: My Correspondence with Harry Browne.
Replies: 26
Views: 12636

Re: My Correspondence with Harry Browne.

I'm not sure I still have any of my correspondence with HB, but I may still have the newsletter issue where he mentioned the PP calculation software that I wrote for the TRS-80. This was before spreadsheets... Yeah, I remember that newsletter issue and the software.  Was that was in late 1982 or ea...
by HB Reader
Mon Aug 18, 2014 2:31 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: My Correspondence with Harry Browne.
Replies: 26
Views: 12636

Re: My Correspondence with Harry Browne.

I'm not sure I still have any of my correspondence with HB, but I may still have the newsletter issue where he mentioned the PP calculation software that I wrote for the TRS-80. This was before spreadsheets... Yeah, I remember that newsletter issue and the software.  Was that was in late 1982 or ea...
by HB Reader
Wed Jul 30, 2014 12:14 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: My Correspondence with Harry Browne.
Replies: 26
Views: 12636

Re: My Correspondence with Harry Browne.

It's a very long and personal report. I will cross out my name and publish the first page in a few minutes for all you non believers. When I have time I will go through the other pages with recommendations so everyone can have some rare insight into Harry's thinking. Yes, I would love to see anythi...
by HB Reader
Wed Jun 25, 2014 3:25 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: I broke the golden rule
Replies: 20
Views: 10952

Re: I broke the golden rule

There is nothing wrong with dialing up cash.  It's equivalent to shrinking the PP and having a separate cash reserve.  Harry Browne commented more than once that simply keeping investments in Treasury bills is the best option for many people who might not be willing to deal with fluctuation in port...
by HB Reader
Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:49 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: What % of your Total Portfolio is the PP?
Replies: 26
Views: 13436

Re: What % of your Total Portfolio is the PP?

Just a little under 2/3's of our total investments.
by HB Reader
Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:14 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: ETF Newbie Question
Replies: 7
Views: 3605

Re: ETF Newbie Question

People complain that purchases of I-Bonds are limited, which is true, but there are ways of getting around the limit of $10K per year per Social Security Number. Over a period of years a large portion of your cash can be converted to I-Bonds, which now make up about 90% of my cash component. This p...
by HB Reader
Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:08 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: First Job
Replies: 15
Views: 7705

Re: First Job

Setting pins at an old eight lane bowling alley built in 1945 on the second floor of the military Special Services Building at the Philadelphia Naval Yard.  It was 1965 and I think I was paid a $1.10 an hour (my memory may be faulty, but that is pretty close), plus $.15 a game and any tips from bowl...
by HB Reader
Tue Mar 11, 2014 11:25 am
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Bitcoin giveaway! :)
Replies: 378
Views: 160301

Re: Bitcoin giveaway! :)

Well, .... so much for Bitcoin issues. Anything new going on with them? Price seems to be bouncing between $600-$700. I saw the alleged creator is denying that he had anything to do with them and that Bitcoin exchange CEO...umm....committed suicide. Any thoughts on any of that? Yeah, the price seem...
by HB Reader
Mon Mar 10, 2014 9:51 pm
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Bitcoin giveaway! :)
Replies: 378
Views: 160301

Re: Bitcoin giveaway! :)

Well, .... so much for Bitcoin issues. 
by HB Reader
Fri Mar 07, 2014 9:32 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Help me get drunk
Replies: 54
Views: 22572

Re: Help me get drunk

Ugh, wine. I can't stand it. In my formative years (pre and just barely legal) I was a "fan" of such fare as Ripple, Boone's Farm (apple or strawberry), etc. (but never Thunderbird or Wild Irish Rose!).  To paraphrase Will Rogers, I [almost] never met a wine I didn't like.  An acquaintance suggeste...
by HB Reader
Fri Mar 07, 2014 5:06 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Help me get drunk
Replies: 54
Views: 22572

Re: Help me get drunk

Whatever you decide to drink, avoid malt liquor.  It was my first bad experience with alcohol many years ago (I assumed it was like beer) and I continue to avoid it to this day.  Fortunately, most of the alternatives you've heard mentioned here so far are much better.
by HB Reader
Wed Feb 26, 2014 11:22 am
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Bitcoin giveaway! :)
Replies: 378
Views: 160301

Re: Bitcoin giveaway! :)

Is Mt Gox finished? It sure seems like it.  Has anything happened to the bitcoin price as a result of this whole thing? BTC is currently trading at $583. I think the collapse of Mt Gox is just a hiccup.  It is probably a non-event in terms of the long term success or failure of bitcoin, but it make...