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- Sat Sep 30, 2017 3:21 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Investing Books Debunked
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5332
Re: Investing Books Debunked
David Bach wrote The Automatic Millionaire which I still love Have you seen the expanded and updated edition of this book? https://www.amazon.com/Automatic-Millionaire-Expanded-Updated-Powerful/dp/0451499085/ref=la_B000APHWYM_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1506802834&sr=1-1 I wonder if he ruin...
- Fri Sep 29, 2017 9:43 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Investing Books Debunked
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5332
Re: Investing Books Debunked
Which investing books did you initially think were great but were then somehow debunked, so to speak? Conversely, which investing books did you initially think were junk but were then somehow proven sound? DomDangelina: My biggest disappointment was reading "The Intelligent Asset Allocator&quo...
- Fri Sep 29, 2017 9:40 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Comforter: Down Filling with Cotton Covering
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2528
Re: Comforter: Down Filling with Cotton Covering
In Seattle Quality (I'm a long time customer of their back country down products.) http://featheredfriends.com/down-bedding.html I just got an email with this message: The Autumn Bedding Sale Save 20% on all of our Down Comforters and Pillows during the Feathered Friends Autumn Bedding Sale Save th...
- Fri Sep 29, 2017 2:02 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Likelihood of a crash and lump sum investing
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4445
- Fri Sep 29, 2017 2:00 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Investing Books Debunked
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5332
Investing Books Debunked
Which investing books did you initially think were great but were then somehow debunked, so to speak? Conversely, which investing books did you initially think were junk but were then somehow proven sound?
- Thu Sep 28, 2017 10:28 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Likelihood of a crash and lump sum investing
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4445
Re: Likelihood of a crash and lump sum investing
Would it go into those stocks tomorrow? Or would you wait until prices come down?The Wizard wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2017 9:46 pm
If $100k fell into my lap tomorrow, would I put it all into VTSAX?
I don't think so.
No more than 60% would go to stocks, the remainder going to bonds and similar...
- Thu Sep 28, 2017 10:25 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: [Books that changed your life]
- Replies: 577
- Views: 63076
Re: Any books really change your outlook on life?
The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods , by A.G. Sertillanges https://www.amazon.com/Intellectual-Life-Spirit-Conditions-Methods/dp/0813206464/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506655243&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Intellectual+Life%3A+Its+Spirit%2C+Conditions%2C+Methods https://images-na...
- Thu Sep 28, 2017 8:21 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: 2018 Subaru Outback
- Replies: 65
- Views: 15511
Re: 2018 Subaru Outback
I am seriously considering purchasing a 2018 Outback to replace my 2010 Accord. It certainly fits my lifestyle of hauling big dogs around better than a sedan! I wanted to get some feedback on here from anyone who has a newer model. Thanks! Jeep Grand Cherokees are infinitely superior to any Subaru....
- Thu Sep 28, 2017 5:30 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Can I Safely Retire?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 9944
Re: Can I Safely Retire?
Since the original post, I've learned that I'll be getting an additional $15,000 to $30,000 a year in inherited royalties and residuals. Would you just hold on to this bonus cash or invest it? By the way, since the original post I've indeed fled the increasingly dystopian hell of California. Never w...
- Thu Sep 28, 2017 5:24 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Likelihood of a crash and lump sum investing
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4445
Re: Likelihood of a crash and lump sum investing
deltaneutral83 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2017 4:30 pm Not lump summing has been pretty bad the last 6 years.
Indeed. I lump summed half a million on November 9, 2016. It's working out beautifully.
- Thu Sep 28, 2017 12:37 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Where do you get your news?
- Replies: 131
- Views: 12402
Re: Where do you get your news?
Interesting. It's amazing that so many are still hooked on the fakestream media.
- Tue Sep 26, 2017 9:26 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Where do you get your news?
- Replies: 131
- Views: 12402
Re: Where do you get your news?
Vdare http://www.vdare.com
American Renaissance https://www.amren.com/category/commentary/
There are no better sites.
American Renaissance https://www.amren.com/category/commentary/
There are no better sites.
- Tue Sep 26, 2017 5:36 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: How safe is cash in today's economy?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 5360
Re: How safe is cash in today's economy?
In absolute terms, if the unpredictable/unthinkable were to happen it's impossible to predict what sort of prior preparation could save you. Far from it. For example, I'm absolutely certain that my large stockpile of guns and ammunition will go far in saving me and mine. What are you going to eat ....
- Tue Sep 26, 2017 5:31 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Can I afford to slow down at 34yo? Feeling burn out.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4404
Re: Can I afford to slow down at 34yo? Feeling burn out.
You can't afford not to slow down.
- Tue Sep 26, 2017 12:05 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: How safe is cash in today's economy?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 5360
Re: How safe is cash in today's economy?
Far from it. For example, I'm absolutely certain that my large stockpile of guns and ammunition will go far in saving me and mine.
- Tue Sep 26, 2017 12:02 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: How safe is cash in today's economy?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 5360
Re: How safe is cash in today's economy?
I've recently fled the unbridled madness of California for just such a community. With each passing day, I'm increasingly glad I did.Valuethinker wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2017 4:45 am The reality is you could only protect it as part of a well ordered (and armed) community.
- Fri Sep 22, 2017 11:28 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Rebalancing into U.S.Stocks
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3410
- Mon Sep 18, 2017 8:15 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Non-fiction bucket list
- Replies: 116
- Views: 15637
Re: Non-fiction bucket list
Influence: Science and Practice, ePub, 5th Edition Robert Cialdini has recently released a sequel to this, entitled Pre-suasion https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Suasion-Revolutionary-Way-Influence-Persuade-ebook/dp/B01C36E2YS Thank you for the recommendation. According to Amazon reviewers the new Cialdin...
- Sat Sep 16, 2017 6:50 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Non-fiction bucket list
- Replies: 116
- Views: 15637
Re: Non-fiction bucket list
Robert Cialdini has recently released a sequel to this, entitled Pre-suasion https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Suasion-Revo ... B01C36E2YS
- Sat Sep 16, 2017 6:46 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Non-fiction bucket list
- Replies: 116
- Views: 15637
Re: Non-fiction bucket list
True potentially life-changing books: A Guide for the Perplexed , by E.F. Schumacher Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book , by Walker Percy Both are of course listed in James V. Schall's great Another Sort of Learning . is Schall's also potentially life-changing? or only the first two? Defin...
- Tue Sep 05, 2017 2:18 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Has anyone purchased a car from Carvana.com?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 22872
Re: Has anyone purchased a car from Carvana.com?
I had to do the same.objectivefunction wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2017 9:08 am
I would have preferred that I didn't have to keep pushing them to get things done,
- Mon Sep 04, 2017 4:01 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Has anyone purchased a car from Carvana.com?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 22872
Re: Has anyone purchased a car from Carvana.com?
I ended up buying a 2013 Nissan Leaf from Carvana. The process was pretty smooth except for having to have the title and registration corrected because it indicated the Leaf had a gas engine instead of an electric. I received the title in a timely manner, it was just incorrect. Carvana claimed that...
- Mon Sep 04, 2017 3:58 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Non-fiction bucket list
- Replies: 116
- Views: 15637
Re: Non-fiction bucket list
True potentially life-changing books:
A Guide for the Perplexed, by E.F. Schumacher
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, by Walker Percy
Both are of course listed in James V. Schall's great Another Sort of Learning.
A Guide for the Perplexed, by E.F. Schumacher
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, by Walker Percy
Both are of course listed in James V. Schall's great Another Sort of Learning.
- Sun Aug 20, 2017 5:37 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Where to park emergency fund to beat inflation?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4981
Re: Where to park emergency fund to beat inflation?
1) Absorb Strunk & White Rule 17 asap: https://genius.com/William-strunk-jr-th ... -annotated
2) Study http://jlcollinsnh.com/stock-series/
2) Study http://jlcollinsnh.com/stock-series/
- Sat Aug 19, 2017 12:53 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Non-fiction bucket list
- Replies: 116
- Views: 15637
Re: Non-fiction bucket list
Personal Favorites: . . . [*]A People's History of the United States - Leonard Zinn [*]The Stars - H. A. Rey[/list] LOL. Both of these are on my bedside table. Maybe it's a Portland thing... Zinn's fashionable opus horribilis has been debunked. See, e.g., Zinn's influential history textbook has pro...
- Sat Aug 19, 2017 12:46 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Irrational Despair?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7539
Re: Irrational Despair?
Is it over?Dead Man Walking wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2017 12:21 am Did anyone think that this bull market was going to last forever?
DMW
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:41 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: DUI lawyer - need advice
- Replies: 85
- Views: 11035
Re: DUI lawyer - need advice
Hiring a lawyer for 1) a first offense DUI 2) where the only damage was a hit tree will be, financially speaking, a waste of money. However, psychologically speaking, it may be worth it if the defendant needs this crutch. But make no mistake about it: in terms of the outcome of the case, and in spit...
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 2:03 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: DUI lawyer - need advice
- Replies: 85
- Views: 11035
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 2:01 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: DUI lawyer - need advice
- Replies: 85
- Views: 11035
Re: DUI lawyer - need advice
A relative of mine had a similar first time no-injury DUI a few years ago but no crashing into a tree. I was talking about the situation with a friend who is also one of the local DA's and he said if it's cut and dry and the miscreant is pleading guilty and they can conduct themselves properly in t...
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 1:56 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Non-fiction bucket list
- Replies: 116
- Views: 15637
Re: Non-fiction bucket list
In payment of a debt of gratitude to him, I must also recommend a new book by one of my former professors which is garnering rave reviews: The Political Theory of the American Founding , by Thomas G. West Related, here's an interview of him discussing a previous book: https://www.c-span.org/video/?9...
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 1:43 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: DUI lawyer - need advice
- Replies: 85
- Views: 11035
Re: DUI lawyer - need advice
My dc is up on dui/oui charges for a first offense. A tree was hit with no injury to anyone. Is it worth it to spend more money on a more expensive lawyer or is this standard fees and terms from a judge that a less expensive lawyer can handle? Lawyer 1: $2000 fee upfront Lawyer 2: $6000 fee upfront...
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:48 am
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Irrational Despair?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7539
Irrational Despair?
I'm seeing lots of articles like this: 7 signs the stock market is ready to run smack into a wall http://www.marketwatch.com/story/7-signs-the-stock-market-is-ready-to-run-smack-into-a-wall-2017-08-18 Irrational despair seems to be the disorder of the day. Or is it quite rational? Should we sell eve...
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:39 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Non-fiction bucket list
- Replies: 116
- Views: 15637
Re: Non-fiction bucket list
Yes. It's of course interesting. Yet its fundamental premise was preemptively refuted, in devastating fashion, in Augustine's The City of God.
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:11 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Non-fiction bucket list
- Replies: 116
- Views: 15637
Re: Non-fiction bucket list
Fascism: The Career of a Concept, by Paul Gottfried
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, by Jean-Louis Panné, Andrzej Paczkowski et. al.
Witness, by Whittaker Chambers
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, by Jean-Louis Panné, Andrzej Paczkowski et. al.
Witness, by Whittaker Chambers
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:08 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Non-fiction bucket list
- Replies: 116
- Views: 15637
Re: Non-fiction bucket list
Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, which has been repeatedly recommended, has been debunked by Nicholas Wade's A Troublesome Inheritance.
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 10:58 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Anyone have a personal chef?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 6381
Re: Anyone have a personal chef?
My spouse wants to eat very healthy but also has a limited diet. After taking the time to go to the grocery store today, prep the meal, cook it, do the dishes, it was over 2 hours. It got me thinking about a personal chef. Anyone have one, what were the costs and were you satisfied? The next round ...
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 8:49 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Non-fiction bucket list
- Replies: 116
- Views: 15637
Re: Non-fiction bucket list
I also strongly recommended this golden book: Another Sort of Learning: Selected Contrary Essays on How Finally to Acquire an Education While Still in College or Anywhere Else: Containing Some Belated Advice about How to Employ Your Leisure Time When Ultimate Questions Remain Perplexing in Spite of ...
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 8:45 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Non-fiction bucket list
- Replies: 116
- Views: 15637
Re: Non-fiction bucket list
Preferably un.
As a warmup he can absorb S's famous and devastating 1978 Harvard Commencement Speech: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeche ... arvard.htm
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 8:31 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Non-fiction bucket list
- Replies: 116
- Views: 15637
Re: Non-fiction bucket list
The Gulag Archipelago, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 11:23 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Other people's perception of your finances
- Replies: 73
- Views: 5850
Re: Other people's perception of your finances
We are so exhausted. An entire month of our summer, which is short to begin with, has been consumed by entertaining. Everything is out of schedule - everything. The second family visit ends tonight. They are heading home tonight. I feel like I will turn to my wife and say, "So, how are you? I ...
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 10:56 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Is it worth it? [demanding jobs vs time with family]
- Replies: 182
- Views: 18178
Re: Is it worth it? [demanding jobs vs time with family]
It's TOTALLY worth it. I've focused on my career, and foregone family, kids, marriage, girlfriend, dating, friendships, and even acquaintances. I work, from the moment I wake up and check my email from bed, to the moment I get back in bed and take one final look at email before going to sleep. I wo...
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 10:50 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Put Mom Up In Hotel?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1011
Put Mom Up In Hotel?
I hate self-deception. Thus I try to always be brutally honest with myself at all times, always trying to sweep away the clouds of error from my vision of the sun of truth. In another thread I explained that I recently endured the barbarism of house guests behaving as barbarians (by never offering t...
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 10:39 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Other people's perception of your finances
- Replies: 73
- Views: 5850
Re: Other people's perception of your finances
... they were our guests, but not once did anyone offer to pick up a dinner tab, contribute to the grocery costs, contribute to alcohol costs………………nothing. I’m curious how others here handle this kind of thing. I recently endured this same brand of barbarism. Because I find philistines intolerable ...
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 10:13 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Is it worth it? [demanding jobs vs time with family]
- Replies: 182
- Views: 18178
Re: Is it worth it? [demanding jobs vs time with family]
OP: when words and actions conflict, I look to actions for the truth. You say that nothing is more important to you than family, yet both you and your husband work 60-70 hours per week. You then attempt to justify this by saying it's for a financially secure future. Yet the sacrifice of the present...
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 10:05 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Other people's perception of your finances
- Replies: 73
- Views: 5850
Re: Other people's perception of your finances
I recently endured this same brand of barbarism. Because I find philistines intolerable and am in the process of cleansing them from my life to the fullest possible extent, I'll henceforth have nothing more to do with my former guests. Note that I didn't waste, and won't be wasting, any time trying...
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 9:56 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Other people's perception of your finances
- Replies: 73
- Views: 5850
Re: Other people's perception of your finances
I recently endured this same brand of barbarism. Because I find philistines intolerable and am in the process of cleansing them from my life to the fullest possible extent, I'll henceforth have nothing more to do with my former guests. Note that I didn't waste, and won't be wasting, any time trying...
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 9:51 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Is it worth it? [demanding jobs vs time with family]
- Replies: 182
- Views: 18178
Re: Is it worth it? [demanding jobs vs time with family]
The OP has made clear that she is not asking whether she should become a stay-at-home-mom, so I'm not sure that the responses suggesting that she do so or offering the perspective of a stay-at-home parent are helpful or on topic. Addressing this question is implicit in the topic, even explicit: not...
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 9:37 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Other people's perception of your finances
- Replies: 73
- Views: 5850
Re: Other people's perception of your finances
... they were our guests, but not once did anyone offer to pick up a dinner tab, contribute to the grocery costs, contribute to alcohol costs………………nothing. I’m curious how others here handle this kind of thing. I recently endured this same brand of barbarism. Because I find philistines intolerable ...
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 9:14 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: 27y/o w/ 150k debt buying 685k house
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6212
Re: 27y/o w/ 150k debt buying 685k house
Help. Friend in biglaw (200k salary) told me today he is closing on $685k house in two weeks. Friend currently rents very nice 2br apartment for less than $2k. Friend has at least $150k in student loan debt. Would be shocked if friend is putting more than 10% down (if that). Friend's job is incredi...
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 9:08 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Is it worth it? [demanding jobs vs time with family]
- Replies: 182
- Views: 18178
Re: Is it worth it? [demanding jobs vs time with family]
OP: when words and actions conflict, I look to actions for the truth. You say that nothing is more important to you than family, yet both you and your husband work 60-70 hours per week. You then attempt to justify this by saying it's for a financially secure future. Yet the sacrifice of the present ...