MMM-146: Back in Time
Sold my Kindle. We hid a Geocache. MM on iTunes. Cramer likes index funds. Take the IFA Challenge. Check out the backtest your portfolio spreadsheet. Gold. Icarra.com. Tom Woods. Avoid capital gains? Listener emails. Peter Schiff vs. Mish.
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Topics in this week’s show include:
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:12 Portal – Back in the Day
- 04:10 – Sold my Kindle 1.0
- 07:19 Geocaching. Go find the one we hid .
- 10:31 Watch the whole show Mad Money now on iTunes.
- 11:54 Help others find the Mad Money Machine podcast
- 12:28 Cramer likes index funds. FXI and Utility indexes. He says picking individual stocks in these sec
- 13:22 Take the IFA Challenge! Go to IFA.com, send them your past several years of portfolio returns. They will compare the risk and return of your portfolio against theirs.
- 15:21 Check out the backtest portfolio tool at Google Spreadsheets.
- 19:00 TOOL: Try Icarra.com on your portfolio.
- 21:33 Backtested the Harry Browne portfolio.
- 24:00 Gold. Anyone know anything about the GTU fund?
- 25:10 GURU: Thomas E. Woods has a new book: Meltdown . Read it and weep.
- 28:32 LEARNING EARNING: IFA Investment Principles #
7: Avoid capital gains and dividends and realize losses in taxable accounts.
- 32:03 David wonders what investment will be low-risk.
- 32:52 Peter Schiff vs. Mish
- 34:53 Back to David’s question
- 36:52 Bogleheads.org is the place to get your investment questions answered
- 37:18 Jon figures out where the interest went. WheresTheInterest.com
- 39:15 Twitter and TweetDeck.
- 40:56 Stan points me to Hans Herman-Hoppe’s article The Misean Case Against Keynes
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