Bogleheads

...the guy deserves to lose the money. He's either a fool or a crook himself.I don't think this could happen to meNo sympathy from me whatsoever.Doubt it could happen to me.A very confident group.How ...

I was in the corridor somewhere between building 7 and building 10, on my way to class. And it was a Friday.

The way I know is that at MIT, the monthly humor magazine, "Voo Doo" disliked ...

I firmly believe that it is much better for me to be 25% in stocks all the time than to be out of stocks half the time and 50% in stocks half the time.

The reason is that both of them put me 25% i ...

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If you want to "diversify," you need both stocks and bonds.

Don't assume that "stocks" = "more." Don't assume "more" = "better." And above all, d ...

Many of these suggestions are quite good. but I believe the OP is somewhat new to classical music; some of the suggested works might be a little overwhelming to him. I love Mahler and consider him to ...

The reason why this is such a contentious topic is because there's no evidence that it matters very much. Stocks are stocks and foreign stocks are behave pretty much like domestic stocks. The past is ...

Of course I could be scammed. What sort of smug bravado is this, we all think we're too clever?

The main reason I hasn't happened to me is I don't move in circles or have the sort of money for peo ...

Amazon "look inside the book," p. 48. emphasis supplied:Of course, you're still probably thinking it won't work or it'll be too hard or there's something wrong with a book that even claims t ...

What's the point of selling them? What would I buy with the proceeds?

More TIPS, and if the ones I sell are up, so are the ones I buy.

It's the basic problem of fixed-income assets. If what yo ...

And unfortunately, gold is prone to speculation...The price of gold is essentially pure speculation, even during "normal" times. I think advocates of gold will acknowledge that as a simple f ...

American Airways...

Picky, picky, picky Rolling Eyes

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- RonYou're lucky I came that close.

I still can't process the idea of TWA, Eastern Airlines, and Pan American all being gone.

Be optimistic: hopefully, the new [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMHS_Britannic]Britannic.

P. S.

W. Douglas Parker, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
US Airways Group, Inc.
111 West Rio Salado Parkway,
Tempe, Arizona 85281

...most notably a 25,000
frequent-flyer mile bonus upon the first charge to the card
and payment of a $79 annual fee. Try this. Decide which organization you have the beef with. I'm thinking more an ...

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Over the past ten years, PABAX did enough better than VTSMX to make up for the load four time over.

Of course, VBINX... Razz

Fido charts do ...

Putnam Asset Allocation Balanced Fund, PABAX, is a... balanced fund, as its name suggests. Actually it has IMHO a weird allocation, 20% foreign bonds... but anyway... the Morningstar classification is ...

Speaking strictly for myself. I've commuted in to the city in various jobs about twenty years of my working life, and I've gotten panhandled a bit. It's a puzzle. I think I've tried every conceivable ...

You know, nobody has mentioned the marches of John Philip Sousa. Like Strauss waltzes, they're short... but oh, how beautifully constructed. When you listen to a good performance and a good stereo rec ...

I think it's very nice that Taylor, Mel, Laura, et. al. have been able to win some extra name recognition for Mr. Bogle, and I think it will be one of many things that will help him to be remembered l ...

Economic forecasting is still an extremely difficult gambit.I'm sure he meant to say "gambrel." :)Many truly big names said Perhaps someone who has truly sworn off gambolling might have wait ...

To give them credit, they have a brand-new video presentation of these funds. I don't know how long it's been there. I like it--it's about as close to honest as any company selling these things could ...

Kudos to Vanguard for their entirely new video presentation of their "managed payout" funds, available huge improvement over what they had before).

I give it 3-1/2 stars, and a PG rating- ...

I hate comparisons of managed payout funds and immediate income annuities. They shouldn't be compared. All they have in common is "more." That is, for the same commitment of funds, they mak ...

Everyone to his own taste, but I think it is dangerous, for two reasons.

I've heard that air traffic controllers use the phrase "to have the picture" to mean having a good comprehension o ...

I'm about to consult two books that I trust. I don't necessarily take them as infallible but I do accept them as well-informed, neutral, sources of wisdom. My feeling is that if you're doing to do any ...

I was listening to the Motley Fool podcast yesterday and the fellow made the point that everyone can name great value investors - Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, etc... but can you name even one great (w ...

you wait until your risky bucket has recovered and has met its price target.What if the wait is longer than you have? Shocked

-GrandpaI am extremely suspicious of plans that advocate separating out st ...

The Hanging Man? Sounds pretty arcane to me.
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The markets look great now and it looks like a good time to review and/or protect gains with smart STOP/LOSS settings.

How do you determine these settings?

What is your philosophy and actions ...

I found it hard to envision many scenarios where one would have a need for income ending in a specific known year.
At the risk of stating the obvious, an early retiree might want an income stream to ...

I'm planning to buy gold on my taxable account. Any advice to whether is a good or a bad move. Thanks in advanced.It seems like an odd time to do it. Why did you decide to do it now of all times? What ...

If the point is to serve the public, then I hope they will also consider raising the annual purchase limit on series I savings bonds back to $30,000.

1) How new can it be? You have a portfolio, you have some system for adjusting its allocation for time, you have some system for determining how much to withdraw from it.

2) The phrase "for li ...

If you're going to self-insure, you can't just set aside $20,000, you need to set aside a full million...Your arguement misses one detail... there may be income from social security, pensions, and/or ...

...Active management success seems to require Dunno, I think whether this is true depends on what the model is for how active managers succeed... assuming they are able to succeed.

It seems to me t ...

I think the figures are wrong, too--my wife and I pay premiums of about $6000 a year on a ten-year plan, $60,000 total and we're paid up. Yes, we skimped on the coverage, but $30,000 total premiums fo ...

Beautiful, Taylor. Was that literally an interview--can you speak that coherently and eloquently off the top of your head?

The close was 10406.96 and, as of about 5 p.m. anyway, the poll was:

The digit 0. I thought it would be the digit 2. On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is truly having no idea, 10 is feeling certain, I ...

I believe the inflation is based on the CPI-U.AIG's and The Principal's inflation-indexed annuities are based on the CPI-U.I'm not sure what SS uses.CPI-W.

The original poster should search the for ...

Clark Howard is recommending keeping at least 3 to 4 cards open. That way if one of the banks closes your account for you it doesn't create a hardship.Wouldn't 2 cards achieve this goal?

He got the acceptance in the mail quoting $47,000 but it also said he would be paid 2x/month at the rate of xxx. Well, he multiplied it out and it comes to $53,000! He signed the letter accepting. ...

2) Please don't respond to the poll after today's market close.
So I can answer at 3:59? That ought to narrow down the possibilities.See rule #6.

Rules:

1) Today means Monday, November 16, 2009.

2) Please don't respond to the poll after today's market close.

3) Don't respond to the poll unless you really have a hunch, an impulse, or ...

What do you guys think about Fidelity Independence & Fidelity Magellan funds? I bought them back in 08 and they dropped 48%. Then, this year, they gained about 25%. Anyone think I have a decent ...

Please check my eyeballs and confirm that I'm interpreting this correctly:
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Does this fund have a total of three hundred THOUSAND dollars under ...

A couple of songs I already enjoy are:
- (Johann Strauss's) The Blue DanubeThere are more good waltzes where that came from. I'm partial to "The Emperor."
- (Rossini's) Guillaume TellThen ...

There are NO slam dunk investments today.Ain't it the truth? Ain't it the truth?Of course there are almost never any slam dunk investments.Maybe not, but money market funds earning 5% in 2007, TIPS ea ...

Let's see if I can write a summary that oicuryy will agree with.

The Managed Payout funds are unusual. You need to be sure you understand what they are and how they work before considering them. Th ...

I'm not an expert. Here's what I ended up doing. I'm convinced it is as right as anything else.

I consider annuities to be "frozen bonds." In some ways, they're a lot like ordinary bonds, ...