How to profit from rising rates?

He implies that restrictions on withdrawls are sinister, but panics are a real problem. People/markets will never be rational. Either you close banks/suspend redemptions until it passes or...print enough money to satisfy a 500% blip in demand?

There's a real barrier, folks will pull cash if rates get low enough and banks need to charge fees.

Unless the fed pays banks more IOER...

"the german 20year etf is yielding 0.35%"

Is the US rate higher because of expected inflation? ie the real rates for safe 1st world countries should be the same? (equilibrate)

Vanguard Mining Fund, P/E –35.8x

Bargain?

How is he determining how long these debt cycles are

Also here's his 300 page essay
http://www.economicprinciples.org/wp-co ... agings.pdf

Wish it were an audio book

Tempted to buy miners, but it's terrible for the environment.

Are there any that focus on essentials like copper, with gold as a side effect. Id feel better about that

So japan.gov is printing yen and buying real assets like companies. eg they print 100 billion, then write down on their ledger "100 billion I have to pay back in 10 years" Then 9 years later they print another 100 billion, pay off that loan, and have another loan due in 10 years. Repeat fo...

To continue this [bitcoin/gold/fixed currency supply] example: You build 10 homes worth $10k each ($ meaning the cost of a basket of goods) First house you get 1 full 10k bitcoin, next house you get less than a bitcoin (increasing demand for limited coins) but that fractional coin is still worth $10...

Why do equal weighted funds outperform capweighted

24 - average/moderate tolerance for risk.

Expected lower. . .I found this forum after all.

They say people are irrationally risk averse but it also depends on how much you can afford to lose.

https://redneck.bank/mega-money-market/
aka
https://allamerica.bank/mega-money/

1.25% on up to 35k

http://www.morningstar.com/advisor/v/82 ... flawed.htm

His backtesting shows a monkey-seleted fund beats capweighting. Why?

If a bitcoin is set to be worth $10k (by fiat? by the market?)

And someone builds a house worth $10k, should they not get a full bitcoin for it? (ergo if enough homes are built, we'd run out of full bitcoins?)

CDs are good.

Anybody using EDV?
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/ ... undId=0930

Could you check up on that once a year and rebalance in/out of it?

Any ETF liquidity risk?

> The best thing you can do with any form of money is get rid of it ASAP Isnt debasement one of the reasons people want to use bitcoin? So is bitcoin doomed to fail as currency because there couldnt be enough of it to support trade, or should it be illegal for the sake of the greater good? > money i...

So you're against a gold standard?

> The Fed no longer has the authority to buy corporate bonds

Why? Seems the ECB didnt get that memo...

* People have been saying "interest rates can't go any lower" for years. And yet they keep going lower. Why do you think the prediction is right this time? Not predicting, just sayin' that rates have been higher than 10%, and going below zero in the US might raise eyebrows. So, seems like...

From the old quote, "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property" How would that work exactly? esp the deflati...

Novice here, setting up PP. If I'm buy and hold (dont plan on much trading) could I just use cash (1%) instead of long bonds (VWESX?) since rates cant go much lower?