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- Fri Nov 07, 2003 4:20 pm
- Forum: Town Center
- Topic: LOL! - hocus...er...SamCooke1961 posts on TMF
- Replies: 11
- Views: 19050
- Sat Nov 01, 2003 5:37 am
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: utility theory question
- Replies: 14
- Views: 25673
- Sat Nov 01, 2003 3:37 am
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: I am perplexed
- Replies: 31
- Views: 43019
from ataloss I have found it interesting that the mathematicians seem to see the swr idea as a rule of thumb. Some imagine much more significance. From hocus: The time is not right for a discussion of the realities of SWRs at this board. That said, I would not want a statement like this to cause fur...
- Sat Nov 01, 2003 3:31 am
- Forum: Town Center
- Topic: intrernet trolls
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9998
- Sat Nov 01, 2003 3:28 am
- Forum: Town Center
- Topic: intrernet trolls
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9998
- Fri Oct 31, 2003 5:44 pm
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Good work by jwr1945
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13154
- Fri Oct 31, 2003 5:41 pm
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Good work by jwr1945
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13154
- Fri Oct 31, 2003 5:17 pm
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Good work by jwr1945
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13154
- Fri Oct 31, 2003 5:12 pm
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: I am perplexed
- Replies: 31
- Views: 43019
The time is not right for a discussion of the realities of SWRs at this board. Why should anyone accept you as the arbiter of anything? es, please take action on this derogatory statement. That said, I would not want a statement like this to cause further confusion. You would certainly be the first...
- Fri Oct 31, 2003 4:51 pm
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: I am perplexed
- Replies: 31
- Views: 43019
WOW! You folks managed to get through that without me having to delete one post! Good job! I knew you could do it!!! my post, that pointed out that The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. , was deleted. Esp...
- Thu Oct 30, 2003 6:41 pm
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: utility theory question
- Replies: 14
- Views: 25673
am I the only one who has to play psychological tricks on themselves to keep their financial affairs in order???? I think the trick is to play tricks on yourself. e.g. Sweep (and invest) all but living expenses from your bank accounts on a monthly basis. Increase sweep with raises and tax refunds. ...
- Thu Oct 30, 2003 2:43 pm
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: utility theory question
- Replies: 14
- Views: 25673
- Thu Oct 30, 2003 2:22 pm
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Terhorst and coin flipping
- Replies: 12
- Views: 22190
Andrew Tobias (formerly a financial writer) said in one of his books something to the effect that luxuries that you sample can become necessities. I have tried to avoid automatically spending more. This was part of why I rarely gambled and generally would prefer to avoid individual equities - I was...
- Mon Oct 27, 2003 5:29 am
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Are you on track to retire rich?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 29587
- Sun Oct 26, 2003 1:58 pm
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Anybody have a copy of Terhorst's "cashing in"?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 57258
- Thu Oct 23, 2003 3:18 am
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Retirees need $1 million for health care alone
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16565
whenever I see something as astoundingly unattainable as this, I wonder what some of the folks who firmly oppose overseas retirement would do were they not as 'well-to-do'. We hit on the overseas gambit because we stumbled into this thing and because, by 1999 I was well done in the burnt out departm...
- Sun Oct 19, 2003 3:08 am
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Are you on track to retire rich?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 29587
- Fri Oct 17, 2003 5:21 pm
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Millionaire "Code"
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13675
- Tue Oct 14, 2003 12:06 pm
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Article: About Goldman Sachs research on EM
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3577
the author goes a bit easy on the responsibility of the developing nations, no? reaching back to the 1930s for a Latin American ref? What about the 1960s through the present? i wonder how he explains the failed economic policies of the current Iranian socialist regime. Are they too much under the US...
- Fri Oct 10, 2003 7:33 pm
- Forum: FIRE Board
- Topic: Nobel prize for fat tail theory
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10023
These economists don't have to worry about it because they have got cushy university pensions, People actually care about what these chaps profess. And folks like Shiller and others. there is a second, third and fourth tier of academician, however. The average PhD doesn't have enough sense to pound...