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hers one that might be interesting to some http://www.amazon.com/World-Financial-Markets-2011-ebook/dp/B00BFWAE8U/ref=sr_1_53?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1369358309&sr=1-53 an entire year 2011 World Financial Markets in 2011: The trading, the players and the stories behind a year in the ...

I have resurrected this thread because I want to do a long-distance walk next year. Right now, my first choice is Camino de Santiago, but I am interested in exploring other options.

Victoria

Free on Kindle today: Barefoot Running - Tips on Technique, Avoiding Injuries, Barefoot Shoes, Training and More. May not be free tomorrow {knowing smile}.

Victoria

Has anyone done long distance walking last year or is planning it for this summer?

Victoria

frugaltype wrote:

The Wizard wrote:All that stuff got lost in yesterday's outage.
Read MINGSTAR's thread...

How do we find that

It's here.

Victoria

How did people run before modern shoes became available?

Victoria

Here is a cache of your old thread: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HY4IVwRV-EsJ:www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php%3Ff%3D1%26t%3D116728%26p%3D1700958+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us The OP can manually cut and paste from the cache into this thread to preserve the...

Victoria, You should resist the urge to tinker and tamper with your portfolio and IPS. Let me suggest Sudoku. The mathematics is interesting, the puzzles are fun, and the complexity is up to you. Or, genealogy. A potentially infinite jigsaw puzzle. I indulge in both. The idea that you should DCA ou...

Valuethinker wrote:

The Wizard wrote:

lwfitzge wrote:where's the projections of Danish tulips? I hear they may be big again

Dutch, not Danish...

Danish hogs . Lester Nessman would have been Danish.

Hamlet was Danish. He was the one who asked, "To bet or not to bet?"

Victoria

mike143 wrote:Google Historical flights DC area airports to Vienna.

This is a very useful link. Thanks!

Victoria

Victoria - I'm a strong believer that the process of purchasing airline tickets is currently broken and is a field ripe for disruption in the coming years. How about a site that lets you DCA into airfares? air-minimize-regret.com ? :D With airfares, a lump sum (LS) approach would work better--just ...

Victoria - I'm a strong believer that the process of purchasing airline tickets is currently broken and is a field ripe for disruption in the coming years. How about a site that lets you DCA into airfares? air-minimize-regret.com ? :D With airfares, a lump sum (LS) approach would work better--just ...

Several people from Maryland come to the D.C. meetings. There is one coming up this Sunday, 19 May 2013,

Victoria

jon-nyc wrote:Have you checked the premiums on the June calls?

Please explain. How can I check them? What would the data mean?

Victoria

Try pricing out flights into another city and connecting to Vienna either by a low cost carrier or by rail. Thank you. I would do it if the price were my major concern. But then I could also take less convenient flights and save several hundred dollars. My main problem is that I got used to $1,850 ...

When you cross a busy street because you want to get to the other side, do you ever deliberately walk slowly because you think that if you take longer to cross you'll improve your outcomes? Crossing a busy street slowly never improves outcomes. A better analogy is choice between taking an expresswa...

When you cross a busy street because you want to get to the other side, do you ever deliberately walk slowly because you think that if you take longer to cross you'll improve your outcomes? Crossing a busy street slowly never improves outcomes. A better analogy is choice between taking an expresswa...

ILnative wrote:Been there - I feel your pain. I think reality is that fares to Europe in high season are not going to go down at this point. I would buy it and forget about it and focus on what a great trip you will have!

ILnative, thank you! You provided a type of a response I am looking for,

Victoria

wilpat wrote:I know this doesn't help you make a decision, but I have no objective answer to your question.

wilpat, thank you for a great story. But can you say either "buy now" or "buy later" to start this wisdom of a crowd thing?

Victoria

bobcat2 wrote:When I search for the user name EDN nothing comes up. What am I missing?

BobK

I have just checked it. Messages by EDN exist, but the poster does not.

Victoria

I will be flying from D.C. to Vienna in late July. Last September my preferred itinerary on United Airlines was available for $1,500. I could not commit at the time and decided to wait. Once I have learned that I could make the trip, I started checking the prices. Up until a few days ago, I could ha...

nisiprius wrote:Any idea why my TD registration will not "take?"

Your computer generates imitation pixels.

Victoria

If you AA is off 4.5% and this is a rebalancing exercise, rebalance. Essentially, on this rebalance you are taking equites to target and reducing the duration of your bond portfolio. IMHO, the only "gamble" you are taking is the reduction in duration. I guess the real question is what you...

Thank you, Michael, I will check it out,

Victoria

#1 seems like a good reason to just LS #2 and #3 seem like market timing that may or my not pay off. In that case, there is no telling if DCA or LS would be better. If you are only talking about 4.5% of your portfolio, I don't think it will matter much what you do. Exactly. Given that 4.5% is not g...

I think it depends on why you are changing your AA. 1. AA is much too aggressive, then LS. 2. Want to change AA due to glide slope, then DCA. Maybe there are some other scenarios. I am reallocating the funds for three reasons: 1. My AA is about 4.5% off. 2. The equity markets are rather high. 3. I'...

Has the possibility of adding breakout sessions around certain topics to the Bogleheads conference ever been considered? At other conferences which I have attended, I've found these sessions to be very useful and informative venues for sharing knowledge. Thank you to the organizers for coordinating...

I'd like to distinguish three types of victories: 1. A victory for one's organization. 2. A victory in one's job. 3. A victory in the context of one's career. Looking back, my greatest "victory" was in the 3rd context when I was hired by Bell Labs. Many of my type-1 and type-2 victories ar...

I noticed that the book is published by The School of Life (London), which was founded by Alain de Botton, the author of How Proust Can Change Your Life . de Botton and his school are aiming to relate philosophy, psychology and related disciplines to the every-day decision-making without dumbing the...

A common question is: If I have some money to invest, what is better: to invest it as a lump sum (LS) or to do Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA)? - The response is usually "LS is better on the long run, but DCA helps with psychological quirks." When the goal is inverse of the above, is the logic...

Thank you, Jack, for taking time to respond to us. Looking forward to your wealth-enhancing, thought-provoking and rabble-rousing discussions and opinions at BH12,

Victoria

I do what Gordon does.

Victoria

I received this email this morning (or last night). From: Facebook Security Subject: Warning!! Your Facebook account will be suspended soon! ... (Note: I'm not on Facebook.) Based on several grammatical errors ("there is not a single user that logs into your account, and for this the must"...

The most elite schools, such as the Ivy League, do not give academic scholarships (that is, scholarships based on academics rather than need). Lower ranked schools do. Their goal is to attract students who would otherwise go to the most elite schools. The student then faces the choice of paying ful...

Our family's approach was to study like crazy for the PSAT. This was some years ago, but at the time, you only got one shot at it (whereas you can take the SAT over and over), and it plays a big role in determining whether you get National Merit or not. I agree about PSATs. To add: Universities see...

Are you suggesting a 100/0 (stocks/fixed income) portfolio for the duration of retirement? Yes, 100/0 but not spending capital. The origin of this was considering what was right for me when planning for 50 years. Along the way I came to the conclusion that the best that could be achieved (in terms ...

This was the first time I've seen the video, and I am very impressed. Illuminating experiments, clear explanations, a lot of repetition while slowly adding nuances and more complex concepts. The last one is particularly appealing; today the public is seeking distilled essence not realizing that deep...

while NYS taxes IRA withdrawals at 8% but with a $40,000 deduction. Neurosphere, Are you sure on that? I thought it was 20K. I believe it's $20,000 per person. My example was for a married couple. Is this $20k/$40k deduction for using IRA withdrawals for living expenses only? Or it would also apply...

100% equities generates highest return, but is only safe if you avoid running down capital. Compared to a less aggressive allocation that is run down, I believe the safety from not running down capital outweighs the risk of extra volatility, while providing similar, perhaps slightly higher income. ...

Billionaires reputed to be Dumping Stocks, practitioner of the "dismal science" claims to know why. There...who likes that version better? Inserting "an," as in "an economist knows why," would remove the ambiguity. But why seek simple disambiguation when economics stri...

Based on the price alone, the current apartment at $1,000/month seems cheap enough not to rush into buying a condominium. Does the condominium come with a free parking? Is it possible to live in it without having a car at all? Is there difference in the transportation access between the current apar...

The title of the thread is misleading. It implies that The Economist (a reputable publication) is behind this nonsense.

Victoria

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich , by Solzhenitsyn - this is the only book I have re-read more than 30 times This book has definitely changed my outlook on life. It was my first exposure to the atrocities of the Soviet life from which I had largely been sheltered. Perhaps, One Day in the Life...

People with real money don't act that way. The long-time owner of a beach property (that zillow estimated at $6 million dollars) came by to do some yard work while we were staying there. He drove a POS old pickup, dressed poorly and did a bunch of sweaty yard work mowing and trimming. Afterwards he...

Just to clarify, I'm not suggesting that everybody or even a large fraction of men should spend $10K on a wedding ring. I also don't think most women expect it. But this guy is obviously not everybody. He makes $270K a year and seems to be image consious and is concerned about the expectations of h...

I have been a lifelong renter. Except for one year, I have never carried renter insurance. I guess you can say I self-insure. Alternatively, you took unnecessary risk but the risk has not materialized (yet). Victoria If I may engage in level-two thinking as Larry espouses: unless one has virtually ...

Instead of reviving the tired "help/no help for the kid's college" or the closely associated selective/Ivy/StateU debate, why don't we stick to OP's question? I don't remember all the debates, but I do know that the top 3-4 schools (Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale) provide much better ...

gkaplan wrote:I have been a lifelong renter. Except for one year, I have never carried renter insurance. I guess you can say I self-insure.

Alternatively, you took unnecessary risk but the risk has not materialized (yet).

Victoria