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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

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...

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...

As I have been researching my target FIRE portfolio, I wanted to understand the tax implications of rebalancing. I used data shown on Harry Browne's website for the Permanent Portfolio as a reference. Mr. Browne, like everybody else (including FIREcalc), assumes "no taxes." Well, I don't have a...

Is there an easy way to determine the PE Ratio for the S&P500?

I read a book a few months ago with the title Live Long Enough to Live Forever by Ray Kurzweil (famous futurist.) http://tinyurl.com/ygsdom It reviews all of the 7 or so mostly common causes of death, and goes about reviewing medical research into how to elimate or delay them via diet...

I'm currently 32 years old and on my current trajectory, should be ready to call it quits in a year ;D In firecalc, I put in 40, 50, and 60 years for lifetime, and there wasn't a substantial difference in SWR That said, the IRS thinks I'm going to live another 51.4 years. Presumably, after...

Hi, I checked the online calculator on the ssa.gov website today, and it says even if I quit working today, I can get 900 a month in today's dollars when I am eligible to withdraw 30 years from now! I honestly believe that in 30 years I will get 0, but does this sound correct? After 10 years...

Hello everybody I've been observing the boards for some time now, and I figured it was time to come out of the closet :) A little about me: About 4 or 5 years ago, I received as a gift the book Retire Young, Retire Rich. As far as quality goes, it wasn't the best book I ever read, but it...