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-176: Things Are Messed UP [ 58:50 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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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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-175: The Perfect Portfolio [ 31:29 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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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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-174: Money Talk [ 58:22 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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

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MMM-173: iPad Predictions [ 38:40 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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

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MMM-172: The Year We Make Contact [ 31:41 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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

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MMM-171: Last Show of the Decade [ 31:31 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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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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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The Dollar Meltdown [ 28:28 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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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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-169: The Deer Hunter [ 33:39 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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

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MMM-168: Carry Trade [ 21:22 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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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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-167: Mad Golfing Machine [ 30:44 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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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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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MMM-166: Excuses [ 31:54 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Topics in this week’s show include:

• A review of the Lazy Portfolios performance.
• Excuses of why no show.
• Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged review and excerpt.
• I encourage you to read Inclined to Liberty
• I read http://Market-Ticker.org http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com http://lewrockwell.com and listen to Adam Curry’s No Agenda show.
• What would have happened if Neo had friends and family inside the Matrix? Would they have thought he was a kook when he tried to explain that the Matrix was a hoax?
• Is Fractional Reserve Banking evil?

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