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I received an email this weekend from a service called Ownerly saying my value had gone up 16%. I don't plan to sell anytime soon and certainly hope my property taxes don't go up similarly. Who knows. A couple of neighbor's homes have sold recently, and prices are definitely up. That’s the problem ...

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans. Browsing in Chicago used bookstore last month found hard bound 1960 edition with the 60 black and white photographs by Walker Evans. Had never read but had heard of the famous book over the years. The classic 1936 history of the young poet...

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On a side note, be mindful of your neighbors too. Is the RV hidden enough on your driveway that it’s not an eyesore for the neighborhood. Sorry to be blunt but I think an RV (especially an older model) or large boat looks awful in most neighborhoods. I would be very annoyed if my next door neighbor...

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eye.surgeon wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:51 am A current model Camry or Accord or Lexus seems far better suited to long term ownership as the internal combustion engine has been perfected over 100 years.

They probably said that about the horse and buggy in 1900.

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We have the one of the first 1000 Tesla Model S produced, have owned since 2012. Now with almost 90,000 miles. Drives like new, also still looks great. No intention to sell or trade. We are also enjoying our 2016 Model X, also intend to hold for long term. Good luck.

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Agree as to The New Yorker. Someday I will win their cartoon contest. I used to subscribe to print edition of The Economist. But never got around to to reading it much. Switched to the Guardian Weekly Observer. Not slanted to finance but love their world coverage. Now my favorite magazine. Still get...

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Good to know that I am not only guy whose wife damaged both our cars backing up in driveway. I reported to insurance company (State Farm), they got good laugh, paid claims and didn’t raise rates. But I told my wife she should get restricted drivers license allowing forward motion only. Good luck.

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Taxable: Vanguard tax exempt muni bond funds, long term, intermediate term and short term. And individual muni bond ladder.
Tax Deferred: Vanguard Total Bond, TIPS ladder, and Wellesley Income Fund.
Good luck.

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Another interesting coffee thread. I like simplicity. Melitta ground coffee, classic blend, with boiling water in a Melitta filter pour over coffee pot of course. Rounded one-third cup ground coffee for 4 cups coffee. I add teaspoon of real cinnamon (Ceylon) to ground coffee. Works for me. Good luck.

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I have several cards and use them on rotating basis during year, typically for two months will primarily use one one card before switching to another. I used to experience credit card fraud every year often on more than one card. It was always a pain to resolve. But no fraud past three years. Every ...

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The local newspaper (print or digital, your choice) is perennially of high value. If you want good coverage of local issues to be available, I'd say it's a necessary investment. In-depth coverage of the local news is not really available elsewhere. A lot of topics are only locally important, so the...

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But it’s now 2021. Anyway:
Amazon Prime
Cable with HBO and too many channels
Costco
The Atlantic
The New Yorker (someday I will win the cartoon contest)
NYT print home delivery
WSJ print home delivery
Washington Post digital only
Vanity Fair
And my favorite, The Guardian Weekly Observer
Good luck.

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So exciting. I always wanted to invest/speculate in bitcoin but never figured out best way. Now with my TSLA holdings can combine investing/speculating in Tesla with investing/speculating in bitcoin. Good luck.

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Rodents and bird feeders go together like love and marriage. In my neighborhood add raccoons and possums and feral cats and skunks and peacocks and foxes. A menagerie. My advice, skip the bird feeders. Plant bird friendly shrubs and they always love bird baths, even if fresh water nearby. Good luck.

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Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan. It got a shout out from Washington Post cooking section last week, ordered from Amazon, enjoying very much. Almost ready to make fresh pasta again with my crank pasta machine that have not used in 20 years. Good luck.

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Neil Shehan - A Bright Shining Lie - John Paul Vann and America in Viet Nam. Shehan tells the history of the Viet Nam confrontation thru the life and death of one man. Very well written and a close examination of Viet Nam. Also made into a movie by the same name starring Bill Paxton. Very good. Yes...

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I sent in the $99 deposit to register, told latter part of 2021. We are on Comcast fiber for internet, I hate Comcast, service abysmal, would love to switch if it works. Good luck.

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Your concerns about inflation and duration are valid. However you can’t expect one fund to cover all bases. I think Wellesley is a wonderful fund, it comprises 40 percent of my IRA. But another 30 percent is a TIPS ladder to cover inflation. And I intend to hold the Wellesley allocation for a longer...

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JoMoney wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 1:47 pm This just in... Robin Hood changes name to Prince John Brokerage

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I love this. Who knew that following the usually boring market and its shenanigans could be such a hoot. Good luck.

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I have no sympathy for the short selling hedge funds being decimated. They use large amounts of leverage to short stocks and have made tremendous profits often at expense of shareholders of their target companies. So good lesson. Plus it provides market entertainment for the rest of us. Good luck.

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Yes of course. Just bought 10 year TIPS at auction last week for tax deferred account. And as my individual stock valuations increase (Tesla and Zoom almost don’t make sense) am buying lots more Vanguard Long Term Tax exempt in my taxable account. Good luck.

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A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin. I might be the only person on earth who hasn't watched the Game of Thrones TV series. So I decided to do something about that. If a movie/series is based on a book, I like to read the book first. So it was off to the library. You are not the only one. There ...

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This is an old thread recently resurrected. As someone who enjoys good print journalism and avoids television and radio news I am dismayed at quality demise of American newspapers. But I keep daily home delivery full price subscriptions to print NYT and WSJ, it is worth it to me, read each cover to ...

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Just a suggestion. Those Vanguard customers unhappy with Vanguard for whatever reason just switch to another company and not kvetch on this site. Would save us long time Vanguard customers happy with products and service and their essentially not for profit organization, not to mention respect for J...

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Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. The author is a Native American from Potowatomi tribe who is a professor of botany and ecology. This book is a series of essays and true life vignettes about the environment with emphasis on how it is viewed by Native Americans. I found some of stories won...

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regularguy455 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 18, 2020 8:09 am Did you just invent a new term?? I would guess there are a lot of BINOs on bogleheads

Thanks for my morning laugh. BINO, very cute. Good luck.

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I don't watch sports. I am trying to figure this out for my teen. Is there a streaming TV service that shows ALL nfl games? With all due respect, your teen needs to get a life. I can’t imagine many worse things than trying to watch numerous NFL games. And I am a shareholder of Green Bay Packers, FW...

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Sorry....not trying to hijack the thread.....but when there is salmon speak, it get's my attention. Does anyone want to share their favorite salmon recipe? Anyone else gotta favorite recipe to share? Poke Bowl with coconut rice for two people. I make from memory so my ingredients not exact. Sockeye...

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Sorry....not trying to hijack the thread.....but when there is salmon speak, it get's my attention. Does anyone want to share their favorite salmon recipe? Anyone else gotta favorite recipe to share? Poke Bowl with coconut rice for two people. I make from memory so my ingredients not exact. Sockeye...

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Sorry....not trying to hijack the thread.....but when there is salmon speak, it get's my attention. Does anyone want to share their favorite salmon recipe? Anyone else gotta favorite recipe to share? Poke Bowl with coconut rice for two people. I make from memory so my ingredients not exact. Sockeye...

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I don't watch sports. I am trying to figure this out for my teen. Is there a streaming TV service that shows ALL nfl games? With all due respect, your teen needs to get a life. I can’t imagine many worse things than trying to watch numerous NFL games. And I am a shareholder of Green Bay Packers, FW...

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Progress Report: Two QCD checks arrived Saturday to replace two checks cancelled and manually redrawn by a Retirement group representative. Both are correctly drawn (payable to the charity, c/o me for delivery). Swell, I'll mail them out tomorrow. But I still hope someone on this thread can report ...

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Any updates to the suggested list of sources for great salmon? https://aksalmonsisters.com/ The Salmon Sisters from Bristol Bay. We order packages of their frozen sockeye filets several times a year. Great for pan sauté, and our Poke Bowl with coconut rice better than we can get in restaurants. Hig...

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Paris between Christmas and New Years on a particularly cold and snowy week with our then teenage children. It snowed every day with cold winds. The reflections of the City of Light in the snowflakes. We felt like only Americans in city. Restaurants were more than welcoming and cafes and museums mos...

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Where have you seen the term bond barbell? The only “barbell“ that have heard of and used is long term bonds and long term TIPS offsetting high volatile equities, typically small caps. A bond barbell as you suggest depending on allocations would be equivalent to intermediate duration bonds.

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Brilliant post by nsiprius. It was a post much like that one by him that caused me to increase my bond holdings from 10 to 40% over the last several years. I needed to de-risk, and hopefully I get a much smoother ride over the next 25 years. Yes. The posts by nisiprius are one of main reasons I vis...

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Like investing, simple is best. Fish is easy to make. Buy a container of ground Sumac seasoning, I get at middle eastern market but grocery stores sell. Try to get one from Lebanon. Get big lemon. Squeeze lemon over fish filet, try to drown it. Then salt and pepper both sides and Sumac sprinkled bot...

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If there's one immutable rule of investing, it's "don't take advice from TV commercials". Second immutable rule of investing - "Don't take advice from Dick Morris". I have never heard of Dick Morris. And have no interest in learning who he is. But a third immutable rule of inves...

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I have a 50-50 allocation in taxable account. Have been steadily adding to my Vanguard Long Term Tax Exempts, now almost a third of my taxable fixed income. The more my equity allocation increases through price appreciation the more long term bonds I buy for rebalancing. Works for me. Good luck.

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I like your grandma. And I don’t even know her. Invest in what she suggests. Should be fun. Good luck. PS- let us know what she suggests.

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https://apple.news/AE3_hkRu1Sxe-bajYbqtLsg

Interesting article apropos to discussion. Good luck shorts.

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everyone around me is talking about TSLA.. even some of my co-workers are buying due to FOMO, this is how you know it's a classic bubble. Ralph Nader made a good observation recently, TSLA's market cap now exceeds VW by a country mile which is truly stunning given that VW is the world's largest and...

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Kirkland Signature XO Cognac. Less than $60.

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Each to his or her own. The Vanguard S&P 500 Fund is my primary index fund. I just bought more after finding out Tesla would finally be added to the index next month. About time in my opinion. Good luck.

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Looking forward to watching the version in Mandarin with English subtitles

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Been there done that. Our neighbors old house immediately behind us, we bought and tore it down to prevent McMansion being built. Best real estate investment, other than our house, we have ever done. We live in South Florida, planted tropical fruit trees and trees and shrubs for birds, a butterfly g...

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Munis are nearly half of my liquid assets. Vg Intermediate, High Yield, and Index. For a 30/70 AA with most assets in taxable, munis make a lot of sense, and I just have to accept the default risk. They’re less risky in my mind than corporates and MBS (and I actually like agency MBS). +1. If only I...

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Am I the only one who gave up? Tried all kinds, either squirrels would get to it or had such a mess of seeds on ground that attracted rats, raccoons, possums, foxes and peacocks, not to mention crows and pigeons. It was a wildlife menagerie. Hawks liked the ground show. So now only have bird bath, b...

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