Investing - Theory, News & General • Re: Low future us stock market returns
While the stock market is not the real economy, and vice versa, the two are definitely linked on long time scales.An issue is how much one is paying for earnings and how expectations for future growth...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: Giving CenturyLink my bank account...
We have all our utilities direct debited. It is a common and IMO a safe practice.Yup. For many years. Never understood the hand-wringing over it.Statistics: Posted by RickBoglehead — Fri Apr 26, 2024...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: Is Tesla really low maintenance?
Whats your opinion on road trip? I want to take the car on a 3 hour weekend road trip (Approx 200 miles) but I am afraid that my hotel choices would be limited to those with supercharger. Also, can I...
View ArticleInvesting - Theory, News & General • Re: Vanguard Auto Buy ETFs
While I would not auto purchase, they have a similar restriction of Vanguard only for manual purchase of fractional shares.Note the problems are 2.1) The industry does not support fractional shares as...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: Can't swim after 4 lessons at Y. Am I a bad...
I learned as an adult so I can understand, and sympathize.IMO there is no real "trick" or "tip" or real need for finding a new teacher. The key is coordinating the head turn and breath with the arm...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: buying house at market peak
It's highly subjective and psychological. Personally I'd feel very disappointed and dismayed, if I paid top-dollar for something, and 5-7 years later said item had market-price less than my purchase...
View ArticleNon-US Investing • Re: How to open a foreign brokerage account as a US citizen?
Fellow US citizen expat here. My two cents is that even if you do well with this $40k investment scheme, the paperwork alone would make it not worth it.Statistics: Posted by happyisland — Fri Apr 26,...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • AUM vs Pro-Rata Rule
Hi everybody, I have a quick question about old 401(k) accounts. My 40 yo husband‘s (~$350) has him in a variety of low expense ration index funds which is great but they charge a 0.5% AUM fee about...
View ArticleInvesting - Theory, News & General • Re: Michael Green on Ratrional...
I find that Michael Green is Portfolio Manager and Chief Strategist at Simplify Asset Management, a promoter of alts:Simplify was founded in 2020 to make institutional-grade alternative strategies...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: Improving terrible WiFi Signal
Connected to the modem directly and getting 240 down / 11 up (vs. 66 down / 11 up through the router). Should I try replacing just the router and if if that gets me where I want, or still junk...
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