Originally posted February 24, 2021. Due to a convergence in timing, I was able to make by far the biggest commitment to the stock market in my life during late March and into the second quarter of 2020. On 31 March 2020, I posted My Three Week-Long Investing Program. It led off, “I am ramping […]
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A Liberty Retirement in Alabama
Once you finally make the decision to retire, and you shut off the flow of new income into your portfolio, your expenses quickly become the center of your attention. Your cost of living means a lot in retirement. One place where you can get more for your money is in Alabama. Birmingham and Montgomery are […]
PANOPTICON: Is Your Phone Spying on You?
You probably have dozens of apps on your smartphone. Chances are they are collecting your personal information en masse, and either selling it to third parties or keeping it for themselves. Most likely both. You have read here about the widening surveillance state I’m calling the virtual panopticon. The efforts by the government to surveil […]
Richard Young Reports: The Great Money Explosion and Disasters
You and I know disasters happen. Just because they haven’t happened yet doesn’t mean they won’t. But disasters aren’t accidents. People do dangerous stuff—beginning with getting out of bed. It’s the start of your chaotic day. The world is filled with Chaos. As my father-in-law Dick Young reminds me from time to time, “There’s no […]
Are You Working with Someone Who Understands Your Struggles?
When the stock market can jump in a day as much as what historically would take a third of the year, what does that mean? When you think about how to Survive and Thrive in times like these, you quickly realize it’s a game of tradeoffs. When Texas windmills stop working, doesn’t that embolden oil-rich […]
Welcome to the Interest Rate Prediction Business, JACK!
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Jack jumped over the…you know how it goes. As investors stomp their feet because stocks are going down (the horror), let’s not forget what’s happening to bonds. Anyone who reached for yield on the 30-year Treasury is learning about duration—basically, for every one percent increase in rates, bond prices […]
Petrified Snow/Ice Fishing? How about a Boat? and More
One of the greatest things about winter is you can dream about summer. After a few days of warm(er) temps here in New England, we’re seeing some of the snow melt. Quite a bit, actually, has already melted in Newport, RI, except for those stubborn piles of petrified snow—not very pretty. I’m not sure it […]
Do You Know About the Great Money Explosion?
This is why last year I posted the warning below. In my 1987 book The Financial Armadillo Strategy, I focused on my long-term fear of (1) inflation, (2) printing money to balance the books, and (3) the highly leveraged position of the US Banking system. I offered a multi-layered platform for investing during the expected […]
Every Investor Must Have a 5/10% Gold Hedge
Originally posted August 11, 2020. Jeff Deist of LewRockwell.com writes abridged: Fed Bugs are people with a faith-based belief in the power of central banks (and central bankers) to engineer economic growth using “monetary policy, “despite decades of history and current evidence to the contrary. They believe tinkering with inputs and rates and velocity and […]
You’re Witnessing Reckless Spending and the Destruction Of…
You’re living in a crazy world where a lot of the frustration you and I feel is absolutely avoidable. Where’s leadership’s common sense? They’re making calls that impact your life in a way that seems separate from theirs. Why, for example, is the nation’s Capitol building surrounded by a moat-like steel fence and armored guards? […]
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