Why

Is

Dividend Yield Investor

Negative on U.S. Stocks??

The Chart Below Speaks the Truth!  

 Expected Net Worth

Are you on track to be a Balance Sheet Accumulator of Wealth?  To determine if you are, here are three simple levels Gold, Silver, or Bronze based upon your age and income.

Simply use our multiplier based upon your age times your three years average income.

These dollar amounts do NOT include housing values.

Example:  $50,000 average income and you are 40 years of age.  The Bronze level is 10% (.10) x 40 x $50,000 = $200,000 

Bronze Level [10%(.10) x Age] x Avg. Income = Expected Net Worth.

Silver Level   [20%(.20) x Age] x  Avg. Income = Expected Net Worth.

Gold Level     [30%(.30) x Age] x Avg. Income = Expected Net Worth.

Using our example of a 40 year old with an average income of $50,000 if he or she equals or exceeds $200,000 you would be comfortable in relationship to your income.  At the Silver Level this would equate to being Affluent $400,000 and the Gold Wealthy $600,000.

At the Bronze Level you will be comfortable plus Social Security in your old age.  You are on track to be way ahead of the average saver (which is almost saving nothing).

At the Silver Level Social Security is simply an add on to your income during your old age.  At this level your wealth is enough to displace the need for Social Security.

At the Gold Level early retirement (if you so desire) possibly in your early to mid 50's, this would depend upon your average level of income. 

The age old adage is so true; live below your means save and most importantly invest the difference. Stay away from personal debt, purchase a house at or less than 2.0 times your income (or the equivalent in monthly rent) purchase modest used car(s) for cash and you are on your way to financial freedom.

DYI

 Medical

Industrial Complex

Corruption Has No Limits! 

For the credential-worshipping nimrods and institutional bootlickers, even editors of the world’s most prestigious journals admit how thoroughly corrupt and dishonest the medical publishing industry has become.

 Here We Go Again

More Bubble Trouble!!

Monthly update little change from prior month. Stocks remain massively overvalued!

 

Updated Monthly

AGGRESSIVE PORTFOLIO - ACTIVE ALLOCATION - 7/1/25

Active Allocation Bands (excluding cash) 0% to 50%

43% - Cash -Short Term Bond Index - VBIRX

35% -Gold- Global Capital Cycles Fund - VGPMX **

 22% -Lt. Bonds- Long Term Bond Index - VBLTX

 0% -Stocks- Total Stock Market Index - VTSAX

[See Disclaimer]

** Vanguard's Global Capital Cycles Fund maintains 25%+ in precious metal equities the remainder are domestic or international companies they believe will perform well during times of world wide stress or economic declines.  

Margin of Safety!

Central Concept of Investment for the purchase of Common Stocks.

"The danger to investors lies in concentrating their purchases in the upper levels of the market..."

Stocks compared to bonds:

Earnings Yield Coverage Ratio - [EYC Ratio]

Lump Sum any amount greater than yearly salary.

PE10  .........37.83
Bond Rate...5.41%

EYC Ratio = 1/PE10 x 100 x 1.1 / Bond Rate

2.00+ Stocks on the give-away-table!

1.75+ Safe for large lump sums & DCA

1.30+ Safe for DCA

1.29 or less: Mid-Point - Hold stocks and purchase bonds.

1.00 or less: Sell stocks - Purchase Bonds

0.50 or less:  Stock Market Crash Alert!  

Purchase 30 year Treasury Bonds! 

Current EYC Ratio: 0.54(rounded)

As of  7-1-25
Updated Monthly

PE10 as report by Multpl.com

Bond Rate is the rate as reported by

Vanguard Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund Investor Shares (VWESX)

DCA is Dollar Cost Averaging.

Lump Sum is any dollar amount greater than one year salary.

Over a ten-year period the typical excess of stock earnings power over bond interest may aggregate 4/3 of the price paid. This figure is sufficient to provide a very real margin of safety--which, under favorable conditions, will prevent or minimize a loss...If the purchases are made at the average level of the market over a span of years, the prices paid should carry with them assurance of an adequate margin of safety.  The danger to investors lies in concentrating their purchases in the upper levels of the market.....

Common Sense Investing:
The Papers of Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham

%
Stocks & Bonds

Allocation Formula

7-1-2025
Updated Monthly

% Allocation = 100 x (Current PE10 – Avg. PE10 / 4)  /  (Avg.PE10 x 2 – Avg. PE10 / 2)]

Formula's answer determines bond allocation.

Current PE10.....37.83

Avg. PE10...........17.25

Core Bond Allocation:  130% 

% Stock Allocation     0% (rounded)
% Bond Allocation  100% (rounded)

Current Asset: Vanguard Short-Term Investment Grade Bond Fund   

Logic behind this approach:

--As the stock market becomes more expensive, a conservative investor's stock allocation should go down. The rationale recognizes the reduced expected future returns for stocks, and the increasing risk. 

--The formula acknowledges the increased likelihood of the market falling from current levels based on historical valuation levels and regression to the mean, rather than from volatility. Many agree this is the key to value investing.  

Please note there is controversy regarding the divisor (Avg. PE10).  The average since 1881 as reported by Multpl.com is 16.70.  However, Larry Swedroe and others believe that using a revised Shiller P/E mean of 19.6 , the number since 1960 ( a 53-year period), reflects more modern accounting procedures.

DYI adheres to the long view where over time the legacy (prior 1959) values will be absorbed into the average.  Also it can be said with just as much vigor the last 25 years corporate America has been noted for accounting irregularities.  So....If you use the higher or lower number, or average them, you'll be within the guide posts of value.

Please note:  I changed the formula when the Shiller PE10 is trading at it's mean - stocks and bonds will be at 50% - 50% representing Ben Graham's Defensive investor starting point; only deviating from that norm as valuations rise or fall.

Current Allocation:

Vanguard Short Term Investment Grade Bond Fund

Possible Allocations to Bonds vs Stocks:

Bonds %

100%+  Vanguard Short Term Investment Grade Bond Fund 

99% to 65% Wellesley Income Fund

64% to 35% 1/2 Wellesley Income Fund - 1/2 Wellington Fund

34% to 20%  Equity Income Fund

19% to 0%  Vanguard Small-Cap Value Index Fund

  

DYI

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The Formula.

A value based allocation strategy

February 19, 2010 by John Kingham

 

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Inflation?

Obviously, the US, by controlling its own currency, cannot default on its debt because it can always “print” itself out of trouble (Fed buys some of the debt). But printing money to service an out-of-control debt and deficit in an inflationary environment could cause inflation to spiral out of control, which would wreak havoc on the economy, lead to years of economic pain, wealth destruction, and lower standards of living. So this is nothing to be trifled with. The far better solution is to trim the annual deficit down to where economic growth and modest inflation outrun it, which would over time alleviate the problem..

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I ordered all studies authored by anyone, anywhere in the possession/custody/control of the institution: 1. - that scientifically prove or provide evidence of the existence of either alleged virus (showing that the alleged particles with a specific "genome" and proteins exist and cause the illness/symptoms that they are alleged to cause) 2. - or, that even describe the purification of particles that are alleged to be either alleged virus, directly from bodily fluid/tissue/excrement of so-called "hosts" (without adding any sources of genetic material or proteins and with purification confirmed via EM) 3. - or, wherein the purported "genome" of either alleged virus was found intact in the bodily fluid/tissue/excrement of a "host" (as opposed to fabricated in silico aka made-up / modelled on a computer) 4. - or, that scientifically demonstrate contagion of the illness / symptoms allegedly caused by either alleged virus. Note that I made it easy on them by not requiring any evidence that the alleged particles hijack cells and replicate. And as usual, I asked that if any records match the above description and are currently available to the public elsewhere, I be provided enough information about each one so that I may identify and access it (titles, authors, etc.). September 3, 2024: I received an inappropriate, nonsensical and anonymous email, probably “AI”, signed “NHLBI FOIA Service Center”. The anonymous email acknowledged that I had filed “requests” (plural) and pretended that more clarity was needed and that I had sought records regarding grants. I responded 2 days later, on September 5, 2024, pointing out that I did not file FOIA orders for grants but for scientific evidence of HPV and/or monkeypox virus and I asked that a name and job title be provided in the next communication. 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Note that back on June 15, 2022, Valery Gheen acting as Government Information Specialist at NIAID already confessed to Kristen Welch that “The Division of Intramural Research, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, and Division of Clinical Research within the NIAID searched their files” and couldn’t find a single record written by anyone on the planet, ever, describing any alleged monkeypox virus being found in the bodily fluid/tissue of a human and purified…. even though this would be a necessary step for scientifically showing the existence of a virus . FOIA responses from NIAID also showed that Fauci and his fellow “experts” had zero scientific evidence of the imaginary SARS-COV-2… just like all 224+ other institutions in 40 different countries that have been challenged. (To see the NIAID confessions/failures, type “NIAID” into the search function of your browser here). 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The Six Lies in Mainstream Medicine - Dr. Andrew Kaufman with Life Force Canada AI exemplifies sloppy thinking - Betsy ‘I was wrong,’ ‘This appears to be an error on my part,’ ‘I fabricated that’ Official Confessions/Evidence Confirm that Virology is Pseudoscience My affidavit regarding the hundreds of freedom of information responses (FOIs) confirming the fraud and delusion of virology, with German and Greek translations: https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/affidavit-re-foi-and-fraud-and-delusion-of-virology Freedom of Information Responses reveal that health/science institutions around the world (225 and counting!) have no record of SARS-COV-2 (the alleged convid virus) isolation/purification, anywhere, ever: https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/fois-reveal-that-health-science-institutions-around-the-world-have-no-record-of-sars-cov-2-isolation-purification/ Excel file listing 225 institutions: https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Institution-list-for-website.xlsx FOI responses re other imaginary “viruses” (HIV, avian influenza, HPV, Influenza, Measles, etc., etc., etc.): https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/fois-reveal-that-health-science-institutions-have-no-record-of-any-virus-having-been-isolated-purified-virology-isnt-a-science/ FOIs re secretive and unscientifically "mock infected" cells (aka invalid controls) and computer-model "viral genomes": https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/do-virologists-perform-valid-control-experiments-is-virology-a-science/ 3000+ pages of "virus" FOIs in 8 compilation pdfs, and my notarized declarations re the anti-scientific nature of virology: https://tinyurl.com/IsolationFOIs Failed freedom of Information responses re contagion: https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/freedom-of-information-responses-re-contagion/ Do health and science institutions have studies proving that bacteria CAUSE disease? https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/do-health-authorities-have-studies-proving-that-bacteria-cause-disease-lets-find-out-via-freedom-of-information/ Because "they" (HIV, influenza virus, HPV, measles virus, etc., etc., etc.) have never been shown to exist, clearly don't exist and virology isn't a science. 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