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Are you a "stock bug" for holding a portfolio with 25% stocks?

Adam1226 wrote: Are you a "stock bug" for holding a portfolio with 25% stocks?

How about a "bond bug"?

MediumTex wrote:

Adam1226 wrote: Are you a "stock bug" for holding a portfolio with 25% stocks?

How about a "bond bug"?

 

if you have 25% in four different assets are you a bug bug??

I am certainly an uncertainty bug.

I don't like the term as I think it is used as a pejorative for anyone who invests in gold. There are people (including some of my friends) who invest practically all of their savings in gold. If "gold bug" means anything I think that it would be more applicable as a description of that approach than of a balanced portfolio like the PP.

By the way, I had a debate with a gold-only investor about their approach vs the PP. Here is the podcast: http://thevoluntarylife.blogspot.com/20 ... m-two.html.

Yeah I think it's hard to peg anyone as a gold bug that holds 50% of their wealth in government bonds.  There is a certain economic, political & philisophical framework built around gold bugs that isn't so much about the gold they own, but everything else they invest in and their predictions about the future.

I'd be willing to bet a lot of "gold bugs" don't own 25% of their investments in gold.

How about a "Browne bug"?

With the PP, shouldn't we be "snug as a bug in a rug?"

I thought we were wearing chaps?