Bogleheads

We saw this happen a year or two ago. It seems that Fidelity's site can't or won't show the issues if their yield drifts into negative territory.
Their graph of the yield curve seems to confirm t ...

I just sold some TIPS through Fido.
Still no bid prices.
Found out from the bond desk what the bid price was.
Tried to sell them myself, but couldn't because the program "cannot deter ...

Near as I can tell, about a momth ago, Fido's spreads shrank to less than 1/2 of what they were. I don't know why.
Also - as a seperate issue, Fido's bid prices seem to have dissipeared.
A ...

Well, I for one would really hate to lose him. I'm not a frequent poster here, but I have been a most diligent lurker for at least two years. Larry , along with a few others here has taught me how l ...

Hmm.... I just read the two posts above. If I can exit this investment at will,I,d be happy with 10%

Are this genie's initials BM?

OK, OK. It IS a good thought experiment. I just whish I could use some of the money to hedge, but you don't want that either.
So, today I would want.... ...

I know you're trying to keep real rates out of this, but I think it can't be done.
If the market somehow offered me 50%, I would want to know why. The only legitamate reason I can think of is t ...

Bog - Lets not get off on the wrong foot, please.
I mentioned the tech bubble only in answer to your question. I wasn't trying to make any deep point. And I'm not a gold bug. I don't have a pro ...

Are you suggesting diversifying into a portfolio holding all the possible guns? Perhaps with a small caliber tilt? Shocked

um, maybe tech stocks in 2000? Wink

I think I understand the concept that on any trade there is one person who believes the stock will go up, and one who believes the stock will go down, and therefore at any given time, the number of pl ...

and, for what it's worth, gold is significantly heavier than lead

Surely - surely - when there are two separate threads on - really now - the Bogleheads forum - on Clint Eastwood and gold we have to be looking at a bubble...

I fear I might be missing something here, so BE NICE.
Isn't it so that all thing being equal, a foreign fund in taxable will be eligible for the Foreign Tax Credit?

So, this is coming from somebody whose main drive is a 1986 Honda Crx. I love it to pieces and think (as do others here) that you should probably keep your car.
Having said that, as you look at t ...

We come down on the side of joint everything.
But that has bitten us in an unexpected way.
My wife is an alien and a couple of years ago we found out that if I croak first, the gummint will tr ...

Well, I'm worried. I just don't know about what. After all, they are FDIC
insured. If they go belly up and it takes me a month or two to be made whole, that wouldn't hurt me.
Do you know what ...

But I just went home and sent 'em a check. Never heard back...

I agree with you about the steamrollers - heck, when I had a boat I named her TANSTAAFL, but this one surprised me.

It's not worth opening bank accounts all over the place to chase slightly higher yield, IMO. Being .5% lower than another bank isn't a big deal. Rates constantly change and different banks will have t ...

I don't know the answer, but when I got my discount for financing, the guy made it sound like there was a - glitch? loophole? wormhole? in their deal with GMAC and HE suggested that I take advantage o ...

Well, I for one insist that 'guys' can refer to a mixed sex group.
PS - I've never read a thread anywhere with such perfect spelling and grammer Smile

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The existing funds may well be poor, but for existing investments, any front end loads are sunk costs and therefore irrelevant
Not so, of course, for future purchases.
If you are only trying t ...

Curiouser and curiouser.
We bought a (then) new 2005 GMC pickup. After negotiating the best price we could get and reaching an agreement, we were bumped over to another guy who, as expected tried ...

And then there is my father in law - a Danish national living in Denmark - who sounds just like all of us, except he's really upset about the degeneration of Danish. It seems more and more English w ...

I haven't been following the story, but I assume they were circumnavigating, If so, at some point you are faced with the choice of running the Red Sea to Suez and the Med, or going down to round Sout ...

Is it possible that we are responding to a small problem,when the larger nightmare is that we will live to see our language evolve into whatever the younger ones are using on their communication devic ...

Same here - plus when I had a question, I had no trouble talking to a rational human who never once used the word "like" Smile

David - Thanks for your input -- I was typing slooowly while you were posting,
I see you are right about the spreads.
I will have to take that into account, although they should be fairly small ...

Um - First, I really appreciate the responses.
I'm actually pretty good at some things - just not computers or taxes. Confused

My wife is pretty good at both and does our taxes. She doesn' like ...

This is my first question after years of valuable lurking.
I am retired and I would be in the zero percent tax bracket except that I convert IRA to ROTH to fill the 15 percent bracket.
I have about ...

I find a lot of wines < 10 that are OK. One I didn't like too well was the Fetzer Pinot Noir.

I have yet to taste a drinkable American Pinot Noir. Maybe I'm just not rich enough to afford one. ...

And then there is inflation. Your first paycheck may have been small, but it was worth more than the same amount today.
It is interesting..I just did a quick calculation and I seem to be just abou ...

Northend - I like the golden gate also - at least the chardonnay. Turns out that its Albertson's propriatary label. God knows who actually makes it. It is pretty dry for a cheap white wine with no ...

Um - can this be relevant?
Last November when Larry Swedrow forced me to buy gobs of TIPs because of the liquidity problems,the spread at Fidelity on the 1/15/26's that I got was about three times w ...

I fully agree.
Everybody knows that 'its different this time' is poison. I suspect that references to 'the new normal' avoid the poison yet say the same thing.

Lots of good advice here, but I think Grabiner meant to say $300 return on 10K @ 3% Wink

Analystic - I believe that if you delay taking S/S up to age 70, You will increase your check by about 8% real per year of delay. Without working.

Retired early 9 yers ago - 53/44 years old - sold the house and bought an RV - kept some land in the PNW and snowbirded.

I just looked at my post above, and it sounds waaay too whiney. Its true, but mortgage rates there topped out at something like 19%.
And my Company made up the 50% loss - grossed up for taxes. Surpr ...

We built a house in Houston in 1980. I rember the enormous sense of relief we experianced when we finally closed the mortgage at 14.25%. 30 years. After paying that fo 6 years, we were transferred a ...

Ally Bank 9 month no penalty CD 1.85 % APR. I think new ones are 1.75%

Sorry, Sommerfeld - you type/google faster than me. I type using the 'Bible system' Wink

I just read Nisiprius's whole post to my wife by way of explaining why I spend so much time lurking on this board.

I did find that the stock in question is listed and traded on the'NASDAQ Global Se ...

OK, she 'feels she needs 40,000/yr'.
could she delay SS until age 70; draw down 5% until then, keep a close eye on what happens for those 8 years?
If the market goes against her, reduce withdrawa ...

Good question indeed. I, too shifted all of my bond holdings to (m0stly )long TIPS back when they were @ about 3% real (thank you, thank you Larry and others)
A few weeks ago I sold about half of t ...

You might try googling Northwest Territorial Mint. They are an actual private mint and also deal extensively in bullion coins. Your coin actually commands a premium over spot gold these days because ...

About 15 years ago, my 1986 Honda crx (2 seater) was broken into and the seats were stolen. I was surprised that with all the expensive cars around, my poor Honda would be the victem - until I went t ...

I would contend that a person starting out at $50k should expect to make more as time passes even in real terms. At most jobs, a worker becomes more valuable as he learns new skills, etc.
What he ...

Hi, Nisiprius. I THINK that if you pull the stem out of an electric watch as though you were going to reset it, the watch stops and the battery will not run down.

Sorry - I type too slow Wink