Harry Browne’s 17 Golden Rules of Financial Safety (2013)

Re:Harry Browne’s 17 Golden Rules of Financial Safety (2013) by tornato7 on Sunday September 03, 2023 @12:30PM (#37371705)

This is interesting. The antithesis is probably the book Lifecycle Investing [0] which essentially concludes that you should be 2X leveraged stocks in your youth and slowly reduce leverage over time.

0. https://www.lifecycleinvesting.net/

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Re:Harry Browne’s 17 Golden Rules of Financial Safety (2013) by nly on Sunday September 03, 2023 @02:31PM (#37372937)

So a 50% market drop wipes you out completely? Hrrm, nah

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Re:Harry Browne’s 17 Golden Rules of Financial Safety (2013) by kqr on Sunday September 03, 2023 @04:33PM (#37374251)

Reminder: it takes as long to get from 100 to 1,000 as it takes from 10 to 100 -- it is really important to avoid big drawdowns, which 2× leverage is almost sure to produce.

If anything, optimal growth requires fractional leverage, i.e. keeping wealth out of the markets.

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Re:Harry Browne’s 17 Golden Rules of Financial Safety (2013) by lmm on Sunday September 03, 2023 @11:22PM (#37376835)

For a few years in your '20s, when your investment is going to be small either way, you presumably haven't got a lot of commitments, and you'll have your whole life to adjust for it if a literal once-in-a-century slump happens to hit at exactly the worst time? I can see the logic.

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