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- Mon Nov 03, 2003 7:19 pm
- Forum: Town Center
- Topic: Just my opinion.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14937
At the NFB board ataloss queried whether nfb rules covered the following Though technically different from flaming, which is an unmistakable direct personal attack, trolls often resort to innuendo or misdirection in the pursuit of their objective, which is to create controversy for its own sake, dis...
- Sun Nov 02, 2003 4:12 am
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: I am perplexed
- Replies: 31
- Views: 42343
petey Sorry, Ken. Your remark below is just plain wrong. .......... Hindsight is 20/20. Petey KenM wrote: nobody truly believed in the bubble so only lost money that shouldn't have been gained anyway. This medium and quick typing of short posts frequently leads to misunderstandings :lol:. What I was...
- Sat Nov 01, 2003 5:32 pm
- Forum: Town Center
- Topic: Just my opinion.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14937
- Fri Oct 31, 2003 4:46 am
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: I am perplexed
- Replies: 31
- Views: 42343
The other psychological factor in the $2m scenario is how the portfolio was accumulated. If it was accumulated over 20 years of DCAing and then given a big boost by the bubble then the portfolio owner may not be so concerned about a 25% drop - nobody truly believed in the bubble so only lost money t...
- Fri Oct 31, 2003 3:30 am
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: I am perplexed
- Replies: 31
- Views: 42343
Ataloss To an extent I can see some circumstances where it might apply to someone with my way (chicken-little :lol:) of thinking. If I was struggling along with a barebones $500,000/4%/$20,000 a year scenario I'd be very scared if my portfolio dropped 15% and I'd probably immediately cut down to,say...
- Thu Oct 30, 2003 6:04 pm
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: utility theory question
- Replies: 14
- Views: 25284
I've read all of chip's posts and I think understood them at the time but an understanding of that sort of stuff never seems to stay in my mind long enough for me to use it - so this may not be relevant - but I found long ago that if I regularly calculated my net worth I became obsessive about tryin...
- Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:51 am
- Forum: Town Center
- Topic: The disscusion is off. The party is over.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15248
- Wed Oct 29, 2003 7:07 pm
- Forum: Town Center
- Topic: The disscusion is off. The party is over.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15248
- Mon Oct 27, 2003 4:57 am
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Are you on track to retire rich?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 29549
- Mon Oct 27, 2003 4:28 am
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Are you on track to retire rich?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 29549
- Mon Oct 27, 2003 4:19 am
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Anybody have a copy of Terhorst's "cashing in"?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 55967
- Mon Oct 27, 2003 3:40 am
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Anybody have a copy of Terhorst's "cashing in"?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 55967
jwr No, it is not hocus who consistently play[s] obstructive, destructive, disruptive word games and continually mis-representing the words of other members in order to try to win cheap debating points... Regrettably I was personally on the receiving end of hocus's anti-social behaviour - which is s...
- Mon Oct 27, 2003 12:07 am
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Are you on track to retire rich?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 29549
ben If you stayed in Thailand having a great time and spending all your money until the Scandinavian retirement age (is it 60?) could you then go back and claim the $15K a year state pension? Do you, in fact, have to be in the country to claim it or could you stay on the beach in Phuket? Kramer Can ...
- Sun Oct 26, 2003 11:59 pm
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Are you on track to retire rich?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 29549
These days I don't usually contribute to SWR discussions but I had assumed from what I had seen previuosly (as an ignorant alien :)) that the magical $1m/4% SWR/$40K-a-year figures were all that applied in the US to a potential retiree and SS was minimal .... if stocks went bust then dog food would ...
- Sun Oct 26, 2003 5:51 pm
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Anybody have a copy of Terhorst's "cashing in"?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 55967
- Sun Oct 26, 2003 4:45 pm
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Are you on track to retire rich?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 29549
My wife and I together should get about 30K per year of SS. :shock: ..... and I thought the UK was a socialist, welfare state. Government provided old age pension in the UK for a married couple, husband 65 or older, is US$10,000. However the state provides free medical care ..... but with long wait...
- Fri Oct 24, 2003 4:09 am
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Retirees need $1 million for health care alone
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16518
sawadee ben Reminds me a bit about my decision as to not moving back (full time - half year is OK) to my Scandinavien home country Can you really return to your home country for 6 months each year? As a Brit it can be 6 months in one year but no more than an average of 90 days a year over a 4 year p...
- Fri Oct 24, 2003 3:59 am
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Retirees need $1 million for health care alone
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16518
I still haven't looked at overseas medical insurance for retiring in low cost areas in complete detail but most of the affordable policies for long term retirement are based on immediate in-patient treatment - OK for a quick triple bypass or whatever but possibly not much good for a kidney transplan...
- Tue Oct 21, 2003 4:46 am
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Are you on track to retire rich?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 29549
- Sun Sep 21, 2003 5:02 pm
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Tossing coins
- Replies: 79
- Views: 57013
Chips How did other people respond to the 1987 crash? In the 80's I turned a small sum into a large sum by trading and leverage. Somewhere around the 1987 bottom I chickened out and sold just about everything :oops:. I didn't lose any of my original capital but didn't keep very much of my vast profi...