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Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 02-01-2020, 04:05
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Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Damned

Oh, heaven forbid!
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 01-01-2020, 20:24
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Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Damned

If I held my wealth in the Stock Market (which I don't) I would seriously be looking at liquidating at least 50% and holding some Cash while buying Gold and a little Bitcoin.
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 01-01-2020, 20:17
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Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Damned

There massive rumors that Deutsche Bank may be the "Lehman Bros" that the Fed is currently trying to save.
Deutsche Bank apparently holds about $45 trillion in derivatives... much of which would be...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 23-12-2019, 14:18
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Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Damned

As a backpacker I sailed over 16,000 miles including a round trip of the Atlantic... on $40 a month... now that's budgeting.
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 23-12-2019, 03:01
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Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Damned

Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway last AGM revealed that they held 25% of capital in CASH.
There's only one reason to hold such large reserves of cash... the market is OVER VALUED.
Why do that?...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 22-12-2019, 14:44
Replies: 542
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Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Damned

In 1970 I began 10 years of backpacking all over the world, and within 12 months, the IMF and Nixon decided that the FIAT currencies needed to be inflated (the world had all these new printing...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 21-12-2019, 14:26
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Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Dam

Not neccessarily so... Sth East Asian countries are very low cost places to live.
Rents for 1 bedroom apartments are from $300 to $600 a month, and that is in major cities. Rentals in suburbs is...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 20-12-2019, 15:36
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Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Damned

... but 99% of investors steer clear of "safe" asset classes like precious metals, Crypto-currencies, fine art, etc, for the simple reason that they don't produce any income.
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 20-12-2019, 15:31
Replies: 542
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Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Damned

The QE after 2008 staved off the inevitable cleansing that's needed, that is a given, however the FED now realizes that they are incapable of unwinding what they have done.
Their answer is... zero...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 20-12-2019, 12:26
Replies: 542
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Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Damned

It sure does... $40 to $80 billion a month.
As long as the FED keeps feeding the Repo market, you can keep sailing for free... and let your kids and grandkids pay the piper.
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 28-11-2019, 03:12
Replies: 542
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Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Damned

= sell when the average Joe is mortgaging his house to buy shares, and buy when the average Joe is jumping off high buildings in Wall St.

... in my opinion... we are within 3 or 4 months of the...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 27-11-2019, 16:00
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Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Damned

Markets rise because of increased investment = more MONEY coming from somewhere.
Its either coming out of mattresses, from overseas, other sectors (bonds for instance) or it's newly printed......
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 27-11-2019, 15:05
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Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Damned

Thanks to the Fed's printing press.
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 18-11-2019, 15:17
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Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Damned

Agreed, but I take the view that the Feds printing FIAT to feed the market, which I see as a false economy.
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 18-11-2019, 14:57
Replies: 542
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Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Damned

Only any good if you are gambling on the markets.
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 16-11-2019, 21:17
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Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Damned

The FEDS will simply print trillions more and pay you your SS... it just won't buy as much when they do that as it would today.
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 16-11-2019, 16:10
Replies: 542
Views: 55,269
Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Damned

I'm sorry Sailorboy that I turned your thread into a Bitcoin rant, however, if you had placed just 1% of your assets into Bitcoin in 2016 you would have paid for everything in its increased value....
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 16-11-2019, 15:36
Replies: 542
Views: 55,269
Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Damned

Tell me please... how can gold make money or produce anything?
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 26-06-2019, 18:17
Replies: 542
Views: 55,269
Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Damned

A conservative person would sell about 50% at the previous all time high of US$20,000, but personally I am holding out for a much higher figure.
This investment is unique in that there is a definite...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 26-06-2019, 17:04
Replies: 542
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Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Damned

I decided to buy Bitcoin Dec 15th @ $3,200... the best investment I have made in my life (apart from learning to analyze candlestick patterns).
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 07-05-2019, 13:57
Replies: 542
Views: 55,269
Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Damned

THE BEST STATEMENT IN THIS WHOLE DAMMED THREAD.
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 07-05-2019, 03:04
Replies: 542
Views: 55,269
Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Damned

Not sure what ETN people are... I Googled ETN and came up with this...


Same as borrowing on a credit card and not paying it back I guess.
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 06-05-2019, 21:55
Replies: 542
Views: 55,269
Posted By pt49
Re: Budget Be Damned

Having been a forex trader on n off for a long time... making and losing good money... I used my knowledge of reading charts to decide to buy Bitcoin about 4 or 5 months ago @ $3,300. It is now up...
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