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MMM-176: Things Are Messed UP

April 9th, 2010 at 11:29 am » Comments Off

Mulch Guy showed up. EPCOT Candy Lady. GURU MediumTex. Quotes. What’s UP with UP? Voiceover class. TOO: FireCalc. Bonus: iPad unboxing.

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MMM-161 Topics in this week’s show include:

  • Mulch Guy showed up. Why didn’t we get his phone number?
  • How can Candy Lady at EPCOT remain enthusiastic after all these years?
  • GURU: MediumTex, world’s most ardent advocate for the Harry Browne Permanent Portfolio. Read MediumTex at Bogleheads.org.
  • Harry Browne Quote of the Week
  • Wise words from Reagan’s first inaugural.
  • Things are Messed UP.
  • Voiceover Class. Is everything a scam?
  • Have you watched the YouTube videos I put together for IFA? See previous posts here on the blog.
  • TOOL: FireCalc to see if you have enough money.
  • BONUS SEGMENT: iPad Unboxing.

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MMM-175: The Perfect Portfolio

February 28th, 2010 at 12:06 pm » Comments Off

Disney World in Feb. iPhone and earphones. Jakob Fugger. VBR, VWO, TLT, GLD, SHY: The Perfect Portfolio. Tool: My Personal Index. Lego Mindstorms.

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MMM-161 Topics in this week’s show include:

  • Our trip to Disney World
  • iPhone volume knob broke off
  • Got the new iPhone 3GS. Fast!
  • Bought iPhone earphones on eBay for 7 bucks. Not bad!
  • GURU: Jakob Fugger “Fugger the Rich”
  • Harry Browne’s portfolio recommendations. His book Fail-Safe Investing.
  • He talked about TLT, the 20+ yr Treasury Bond fund.
  • Here’s the Perfect Portfolio (for me): 13% VBR, 12% VWO, 25% TLT, 25% GLD, 25% SHY.
  • TOOL: My Personal Index for Windows. Mac and Linux versions may be coming soon. Version 3 also due.
  • Got any Lego Mindstorms suggestions? Email me!

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MMM-174: Money Talk

January 29th, 2010 at 1:18 pm » Comments Off

Harry Browne. Etymotic ear phones are sturdy. Sortino Ratio. GURU Richard Maybury. Broken Window Fallacy. Hybrid School Bus. Economics of Recycling. BRK/B split 50:1. Bing cashback. No deer. TOOL: Readability.

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MMM-161 Topics in this week’s show include:

  • A tribute to Harry Browne
  • Opening theme by Bob Crosby, Come Back Sweet Papa
  • Etymotic ear phones are the most sturdy I’ve found.
  • How should I use Facebook?
  • How does anyone read the important stuff from Twitter?
  • Sortino ratio doesn’t penalize upswings as risk
  • My iPad predictions results
  • GURU: Richard Maybury. He writes the Early Warning Report. He has a YouTube channel worth watching.
  • Harry Browne talks about the Broken Window Fallacy in his 2004-12-05 Money Talk radio show.
  • Our county bought a hybrid school bus… to save money.
  • The Economics of Recycling
  • The Berkshire Hathaway 50:1 stock split.
  • Bing Cashback still works. Buy your gold eagle coins now.
  • No deer this year.
  • TOOL: Readability will help you read web articles
  • You gotta watch Fear the Boom and Bust

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MMM-173: iPad Predictions

January 13th, 2010 at 1:08 pm » Comments Off

The devaluation in Venezuela. Lazy Portfolio analysis. The Riskcog.com portfolio analysis tool. iPad predictions.

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MMM-161 Topics in this week’s show include:

  • The devaluation of the bolivar in Venezuela.
  • Randy Stonehill’s The Sky is Falling and Venezuela.
  • I review the analysis I recently did (here on these pages) of adding gold to lazy portfolios.
  • Using Excel Solver to find the best portfolio from the past.
  • TOOL: Riskcog.com Reduce Risk
  • I give my wish list and predictions for the upcoming Apple iPad (iTablet, iSlate, or iBook?)

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MMM-172: The Year We Make Contact

January 5th, 2010 at 1:23 pm » Comments Off

The Gift Card Store. Lazy Portfolios analyzed. Cheap Gas! 2010 (the movie). The tax on gold. End the Fed.

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MMM-161 Topics in this week’s show include:

  • Bruce Cockburn’s Making Contact
  • How about a gift card to the Gift Card Store?
  • Lazy Portfolios reviewed for the past 3 years
  • Risk vs. Return on select lazy portfolios
  • Game: Race for the Galaxy (#12 at Boardgamegeek.com) Very Fun!
  • the tax on gold
  • Change for $6.18
  • Inspectd.com gone bye-bye
  • Foliodex.com gone bye-bye
  • Tool: Cheap Gas! on the iPhone
  • A trillion is a million million
  • End the Fed. Read it.
  • Check out MoveYourMoney.info
  • IFAradio.com is a new podcast with the same guys from Sound Investing podcast.
  • 2010: Odyssey Two and 2010 (The Year We Make Contact)
  • I hope you have a happy… (2010 and twenty teens.) [Audio file cut off a couple of seconds early.]

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MMM-171: Last Show of the Decade

December 16th, 2009 at 4:54 pm » Comments Off

Tiger’s Song. Tool: EzBacktest. Scary movies. Impact of inflation on stock prices. Improved Permanent Portfolio? Paul Samuelson.

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MMM-161 Topics in this week’s show include:

  • Tiger’s Song. I predict he will play in the Master’s this year.
  • Scary movies: Food, Inc. (on DVD) and Collapse (not yet on DVD)
  • What would be the impact of runaway inflation on stock prices?
  • Tool: EzBacktest Needs the ability to measure risk and not just returns.
  • Can we do just a little bit better than the Harry Browne Permanent Portfolio? How about using IFA Index Portfolio 25 for the stocks, bonds, and cash portion?
  • Guru: Paul Samuelson (flashback to show 52) and read the requiem.
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MMM-170: The Dollar Meltdown

December 6th, 2009 at 11:22 am » Comments Off

Tiger Woods reads Physics book. Santa Got a Bailout. GoogleFinance’s closeyest attribute. Guru is Charles Goyette and his book Dollar Meltdown.

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MMM-161 Topics in this week’s show include:

  • Song: Our Winter Wonderland from Sunshine Collective.
  • Tiger Woods reading a Physics book?
  • TOOL: =GoogleFinance(symb, “closeyest”)
  • Song: Santa Got a Bailout from Eddy Delbridge
  • GURU: Charles Goyette and his book The Dollar Meltdown
  • We are entering Tax-Loss Harvest season

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Our Winter Wonderland from Sunshine Collective
Santa Got a Bailout from Eddy Delbridge


MMM-169: The Deer Hunter

November 19th, 2009 at 11:41 am » Comments Off

Twenty hours in the woods. The Lost Symbol. The Lost Voice. Q-School. Gerald Celente. V. Big Break. Matrix. Mad Max.

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MMM-161 Topics in this week’s show include:

  • My tale of the invisible deer.
  • Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol
  • My Lost Voice
  • Tiger wins a golf tournament.
  • It is Q-School season.
  • TOOL: Deer Hunter
  • GURU: Gerald Celente
  • V, The Big Break, Matrix, Mad Max
  • Berkshire B to spit 50:1. Wanna buy 49?

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MMM-168: Carry Trade

November 11th, 2009 at 2:49 pm » Comments Off

Cramer’s 12 Stocks to Play in Recovery. Carry Trade and You. Wegman’s. Vitamin D3. Phil’s whiff.

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MMM-161 Topics in this week’s show include:

  • Cramer’s 12 Stocks to play in the Recovery. From his book Getting Back to Even and from his web site (google it). Follow the portfolio in Icarra.
  • Carry Trade. When dollar stops falling, watch out, says Roubini. Karl says there is a direct inverse correlation between the dollar index and the S&P 500 index.
  • Wegman’s
  • Vitamin D3
  • Phil’s Whiff.

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MMM-167: Mad Golfing Machine

November 3rd, 2009 at 6:26 pm » Comments Off

CNBC viewership plunges. Golf is like investing. Investing is like golf.  TOOLS I use daily. New China ETF. GURU Jim Rogers.

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MMM-161 Topics in this week’s show include:

  • CNBC Viewership PLUNGES y/o/y in October
  • Golf is like investing. Investing is like golf.
  • TOOLS: Bloomberg, Kitco Gold, Wunderground, PGA Tour, SportsTap, GolfShot all for iPhone and then the Dollar Index chart.
  • AlphaShares launches China All-Cap Index and Claymore announces a matching ETF with symbol YAO
  • GURU: Jim Rogers Bullish on China. Bearish on Bernanke. Bullish on Commodities. Bearish on the Dollar.

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MMM-166: Excuses

October 14th, 2009 at 12:06 pm » Comments Off

A review of Lazy Portfolio performance. Excuses of why no show. Atlas Shrugged review and excerpt. Inclined to Liberty excerpt. Would they call Neo a kook? Is FRB evil?

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