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I had to read between the lines, but I believe Billy recommended a Ferrari and Akaisha suggested a Lamborghini. In the end, I ended up getting a 4 year old Porsche Carrera 4S with only 12k miles on it for less than half of the price of a new one. As luck would have it, the serious depreciation...

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Wow, I originally wrote my first post almost 4 years ago. A lot has happened since then... The girlfriend and I broke up, I met up with Billy and Akaisha in Thailand for some sage advice, bought a sports car, I moved to LA and lived like a rock star for a year, sold the sports car, got back...

I'm going to be in Thailand between Dec 12th and Jan 2nd, and I'm trying to decide the best city in which to spend Christmas. I was considering splitting my time between Phuket, Bangkok (for New Years Eve), and Chiang Mai. Do any of these places have a holiday feel to them during the Christmas...

http://www.evansonasset.com/ This company appears to offer investment advisory services for relatively low fixed fees. Any thoughts on this company?

An interesting article about the return on the S&P500, compared to gold, the british pound, etc... Nothing new, really, but nice looking graphs http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070507/34704_id.html?.v=1

A trade deficit is a delta in revenue, not profit. It is possible to have a trade/revenue deficit, but still have more profit on the US side (or vice versa)

I have about 20% of my investable money in 401k/IRA, and the rest is in a taxable account. I am planning my portfolio, and was trying to optimize for taxes, i.e. put the most taxable 20% of assets inside the 401k/IRA I stack ranked various asset classes, from most tax efficient to least tax...

What city in China do you live in lhamo?

Every once in awhile, you hear a story about how one of the Kennedy's got drunk, drove home, and smashed up something or other in the process. Apparantly the Kennedy's have assets locked up in trust, so they can get away with this sort of thing without getting sued and having a judgement take...

If you can get to a 1.6% swr, you could put it all in the S&P500 and let it ride. You can just live off the dividends

After so many years of S&P500 growth, and living on 24k a year, is it possible to live completely off of the dividends?

Not FIREd yet... another 2 or 3 years. I'm about 80% outside or IRAs / 401ks. I haven't had enough years of 401k contributions to amount to much. I assumed that my retirement tax rate would be lower than my working tax rate, so I never contributed to a ROTH when my income was lower and it was...

I should hit a point where I can live comfortably on a 3% swr in about a year, but I plan on working another year or two afterwards for other reasons I have had a very hard time mentally opening the purse strings, but I plan to let loose during those last working years and spend most of what I...

I was in Thailand during February, and had a less than friendly encounter with one of the locals. I took a water taxi, with an agreed upon price of 150 baht before I got on the boat. When we reached our destination, the price was 200. I refused to pay the extra fare The driver then proceeded...