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The Austin area Bogleheads will meet on Saturday, May 25th from 12 Noon to 1:30 PM at Wildflower Terrace in the Mueller Development. Please note the new time and location. Wildflower Terrace is located at 3801 Berkman Drive near Berkman Dr. and Manor Rd., approximately one mile east of I-35. Take th...

confusedinvestor wrote:Hi, How can I get emails for Austin Bogleheads meetings, updates or speaker presentations?

I am Austinite...

If you send me a private message (PM) with your email address, I will add you to my distribution list for information about meetings. Thanks and take care.

bzcat, watch this forum for information about the next Austin Chapter meeting. If you would like for me to add you to my distribution list, please PM me with your email address. neutics, I have sent you a PM to which you may reply with your email address and I will add you to the distribution list. ...

Thank you, Scott for giving us the benefit of your wisdom, experience and humor at today's Austin Bogleheads meeting. I got more thank you's for inviting you than I can count. I think I speak for the group when I say I hope you can find the time to join us again sometime. Take care and enjoy your st...

The Austin Bogleheads will meet this Saturday, February 9th from 3-4:30 PM at Trianon Coffee in Westlake. I've already notified everyone for whom I have an email address. This notice is just to update the agenda and catch anyone interested in attending for whom I do not have an email address. We wil...

"Bull market" - I get it.

Rick Ferri wrote:Forecasting isn’t about predicting the market; it’s about marketing the prediction.

Rick, I hope you don't mind if I suggest that Taylor add this to his investing "gems."

Harold wrote:

tadamsmar wrote:Harold comes out first.

The sort function appears to be working correctly then.

You forgot the

About two-thirds of the way down the thread is this post:

"Posts like this verify the adage that anyone can put anything on the internet."

LOL

Indexed Universal Life (IUL) - the greatest thing since sliced bread

Taylor, thanks for the reminder and have a wonderful new year!

1691.47

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

When the moon is in the Seventh House and Jupiter aligns with Mars. (With all due respect to the Fifth Dimension and songwriters James Rado, Gerome Ragni and Galt MacDermot) I mean, why not?

Title: The Hedge Hog Fund (We can't promise you won't get slaughtered)

Long:
CAG (ConAgra Foods, Inc.)
CAT (Caterpillar, Inc.)

Short:
CBOU (Caribou Coffee Co., Inc.)
SHOR (Shoretel, Inc.)

I understand not wanting a "Like" button. But, one of the forums I visit has a "Thanks" button. I like that. It would be nice to be able to thank people for a post where you learn something, but have nothing to add to merit responding. Something to consider. We already have a &q...

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I'm a firm believer in the self-fulfilling prophecy. If one behaves in a way that reflects a reasonable optimism about the future, one's future has a better chance of justifying that optimism. We may see some of that behavior (or its inverse) in relation to the Mayan prophecies about December 21st....

I'm a firm believer in the self-fulfilling prophecy. If one behaves in a way that reflects a reasonable optimism about the future, one's future has a better chance of justifying that optimism. We may see some of that behavior (or its inverse) in relation to the Mayan prophecies about December 21st.

... This may be seen as market timing - but I do believe in purchasing assets at what I consider a reasonable price. And safe assets are dreadfully expensive right now , as stated above. And to those who may point-out that assets that 'went down the tube" in 2008-2009 came right back, I would ...

Rick, I'm with you on the December 21st thing. Fun article. Take care.

Just a quick reminder about our meeting today at 3PM at Trianon Coffee. See y'all there.

I couldn't get the link to the specific map to work, but if you search google maps for "hotels near 3201 Bee Cave Road, Austin, Texas", you should be able to find several.

Hey, Austin area Bogleheads. I have reserved the conference room at Trianon Coffee for Saturday, December 8th from 3:00 to 4:30 PM for our next chapter meeting. I will send email with this information to everyone on the list that Bryan compiled. I want to thank Bryan for coordinating our meetings fo...

Here's how one investor did it:

Peyton Manning a new owner of 21 Papa John's pizza stores

My high school football coach would tell us often that

"Nothing good ever comes easy."

I wish I had said that ^

Congratulations and thank you to the new board members.

Very cool, I would love to have one but I'm not bidding against Bogleheads for it. :) Have y'all considered raffling off a few? Like $10-20 per 'ticket', I'll betcha a pizza you get at least 100 people interested. That's something we might consider for the future if we can work out the logistics of...

Congratulations, Mike! I always look forward to your postings, which I get by email. Hope to see you at Bogleheads 11.

pkcrafter wrote:When our daughter was old enough, we let her order her own lunch for the first time. The waitress asked if she wanted soup or salad. She proudly replied, "yes, I'll have the super salad."

Paul

I wonder if that waitress had a hand in naming this restaurant.

Howdy, Hella. Welcome to Austin. Check back on this board (Local Chapters and Bogleheads Community) for any updates and goings on with the Austin chapter. If you prefer, you may want to send a private message (PM) to Bryan (user name bryanv) and ask him to put you on his distribution list. To send a...

I'll raise a glass to sscritic. He deserves all this praise and more.

Y'all are good. Keep up the good work, and thanks.

Google didn't find me any investing references to "wide moats" earlier than about 2002. David Gardner uses the term "moat" when discussing the patent protection enjoyed by pharmaceutical and extremely high technology companies. (The Motley Fool's rule breakers, rule makers: the ...

You might want to start here. Good luck!

... but not ALL bogleheads invest exactly alike. Some hold more equities, some less; some own nothing but total markets, some slice and dice; some rebalance more or less frequently than others; etc.

To those who follow it and believe in it, it is both. To those who don't, it is merely a philosophy. I think the main reason more people don't follow the "Bogle" philosophy of investing is because they have egos that won't fit inside a total market approach.

porcupine wrote:

gotherelate wrote:If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, don't invest in it.

Have you explained an index fund to a six year old?

- Porcupine

Not yet, but I imagine I'd say it's kind of like owning the whole candy store.

If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, don't invest in it.

texasdiver wrote:...guy had spent about 100 grand building a massive fallout shelter stocked with a year's supply of food and fuel and all manner of exotic arms. ... I always wondered what came of that guy. I never saw him again.

Have you checked his fallout shelter?

Maybe it's partly the potential bragging rights of having someone like Tiger Woods or Sergey Brin owe you money.

Knock yourself out!
(edited to add emoticon)

This topic has an earlier thread here.

Tell them what I usually tell my grandchildren when they make cockemamy suggestions. "Knock yourself out!"

Sounds better than "Don't buy my fund now, it's prospects stink."

Obviously, the stock market shrugged off the news.

Anyone can write a headline to explain the markets. Just use this simple template:

Today, the market reacted to the news that _________________________, and jumped/collapsed/held steady.
Today, the market ignored the news that __________________________, and jumped/collapsed/held steady.

Dynamic asset allocation.

Hawaii Five-0:

We record our favorite shows to ff through the commercials and intros. But I always play the entire intro to Hawaii Five-0. I still get a chill when I hear those kettle drums.

Jonathan Before you make this important move into index funds, I would suggest a visit to this site http://www.ttheory.com just for another point of view. That was almost funny considering this forum is "investing advice inspired by Jack Bogle." My favorite was the sample post about the c...