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It's tough to invest and beat the market unless one can spend a significant portion of their day doing research - and I don't have that type of time. I'm generally invested in index funds and shift the balance between them depending on the prevailing winds as best as I can determine. Your shift away from US bonds probably saved quite a bit. I tend to only shift the distribution a bit - I don't have much faith in my investing choices to try a larger move.
I do enjoy making small investments like my aforementioned short on gold -but even that was only 1k which is really just a way to put my money where my mouth is. I suspect I'll make a similar bet on china, but we'll see. Most of my non-401k assets are still sitting in interest bearing accounts, but I've been nervous to actually invest them - it's hard to gauge which way the market is right now.
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That permaculture comment led me to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tractor
Now I want to build a chicken tractor that has very slow solar powered wheels. It would be fantastic if you could program it to drive, back and forth, back and forth, over a large stretch of lawn. Maybe moving a couple of feet per day.
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Chicken tractors are out of favor. Most permies will tell you to go with the paddock system: http://www.richsoil.com/raising-chickens.jsp
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d_e_solomon · 4852 days ago · link ·
I just read way more than I wanted to about raising chickens....