Ah, “The White Plague”, by Frank Herbert

Good book

Perun on Russia’s grand strategy and Ukraine —

https://youtu.be/94bqk8cB9iQ

Fox lawyers say Tucker not to be believed, so, why should we give him any credibility or spend time analyzing everything that he says? https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-believe-the-facts-tucker-carlson-tells-you-so-say-fox-s-lawye https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/16/media/fox-ne...

For example, If they cut the rate to 0 (and your fixed rate is 0) wait three more months and when you sell you'd lose 0. Correct me if I'm wrong That's actually very clever. I keep looking for the catch. Ditto — ones I can think of: * maybe the opportunity cost vs what the could get when take out? ...

I measured the PP with a real return (including inflation) that was down a little more than 18%. Yes, that's the worst year I have on record since 1970. That may not sound very good until you realize that it was still in the top third of all portfolio options and still quite tame compared to other ...

Maddy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 21, 2023 4:47 pm In other words, you took a wild pot shot at a position with which you were predisposed to disagree.

Yup, that sounds like a description of Tucker Carlson to me

To any holders of the GB, or anyone really, what is your review of its performance in 2022, and how do you see it going forwards? How did it do vs the PP? If Quicken isn’t lying to me, Gold, LTT, and SCV have all beaten the S&P500 for the last three months (up 18-11%!) and YTD, so, looking bett...

You mean, like Fox lawyers / judge saying he's not to be taken literally?

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/91774712 ... ox-s-lawye

New Year's update: Two tweaks 1) My small allocation in wacky investments is going into Managed Futures, a mix of DBMF, CTA, and KMLM. We'll see how that goes. 2) The Wife made it clear she strongly prefers cash...so it looks like my AA will be more like Half Speculative - 16% each in US-TSM, US-SC...

A take on what’s happening in China with COVID (now that they are out of there zero COVID policy)

https://youtu.be/0-g1_e3iezk

As far as illegal immigrants, I've always wondered what percentage are hired by Republicans vs Democrats

I've always assumed Republican (more in agriculture and management, I assume)

So, just soundbite for most republican politicians.

Wage inflation? still not keeping up with even official inflation, let alone real Costs of housing, education, healthcare, etc, have been climbing faster than income for most for decades I'm not surprised the younger generation is disillusioned And others start their own businesses young, so, why pu...

Sorry! But each time I see the title of this topic I cannot help but think of this song! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uAUoz7jimg Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4 - 7/21/1970 - Tanglewood (Official) If you like this / them you should watch the video of their entire show that day. I've had it on several ti...

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/01/17/ma ... re-orders/

I’m looking at the Mac Mini to replace my old one

I bought 30 years at 4 and then again at 3.87. I am using a new rule for myself. It’s called go halfsies. If I’m scared to buy or sell I do around half. That gets me moving. The mechanical part is easy (15/35 Bands): the emotional part can be more...ahem, problematic. Understatement of the year 🙂

But wait, there’s more… Five more classified documents found at Biden’s Wilmington home, lawyer says Why is it White House lawyers that are finding these documents? Where’s the FBI? Are we supposed to believe that the true number and nature of these documents will ever be disclosed? Either way, I’m...

Thanks!

I’ve been thinking about soon buying half of what I plan to purchase for the year (still have to figure out how much I plan to put in)

Having that 0.4% “real” is nice — makes any new purchases better than all my existing purchases

Was expecting Vinny to recommend his peanut butter. But you just never know what he'll do Fortunately (for me) peanut butter prices have, for some reason, remained steady during all this massive food price inflation. That reminds me: I gotta pick up bread today for PB&J sandwiches. I stopped bu...

Up 0.4% for the year.

Oops, wrong year. Thought I'd enjoy 2023 returns while positive....

I keep thinking about getting some Silver coins

I did hold a silver ETF for a little bit ten-ish(?) years ago

Does anyone have goals or accomplishments they are aimed towards for 2023? Similar to last year — lose weight, get stronger, play more music Last year — was doing well on all until death of parent mid year and my getting COVID a few weeks after. So, gained about 10lb last year, although did get str...

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 6:14 pm Condolences, Dieter.

Thanks

I found this interesting - why the US dollar will remain the global currency

https://youtu.be/LiR54FPQiCs

It's probably considered one of the least small / value-ie of the available offerings, but I use Vanguard Small-Cap Value Index Fund Admiral Shares (VSIAX) (the mutual fund version) Was easiest for me SCV has underperformed Large Balanced for a while; although this last year it sucked a lot less -- ...

-15.15 (edit: bad formula said -9.53) on my modified GB-ish part of my portfolio

Cashless. Ouch.