GO see a reputable advisor who can ask you the right questions based on your situation if you need an investment.

Buying any fund based on past performance and low fees is a recipe for disaster.

If you don't know what to do with your money you should not invest it. Internatinal funds, like any equity fund is volatile.

Regarding vanguard, I would not suggest you go with the low cost provider in the industry. While there a ton of bad funds to avoid, its more important to understand what your doing. Index funds can lose big money.

As a rule of thumb, don't try to emulate what the small part of the market segment does, but try to do emulate what wealthy people do. They usually don't hire the cheapest attorney or accountant, nor the cheapest money advisor.

Go ask the 5 wealthiest people you know and ask them how they do it.

You did say "Play" with 25k? That assumes you don't need this money? can afford to lose it? What does "play" mean you you?

GO see a reputable advisor who can ask you the right questions based on your situation if you need an investment.

Buying any fund based on past performance and low fees is a recipe for disaster.

If you don't know what to do with your money you should not invest it. Internatinal funds, like any equity fund is volatile.

Regarding vanguard, I would not suggest you go with the low cost provider in the industry. While there a ton of bad funds to avoid, its more important to understand what your doing. Index funds can lose big money.

As a rule of thumb, don't try to emulate what the small part of the market segment does, but try to do emulate what wealthy people do. They usually don't hire the cheapest attorney or accountant, nor the cheapest money advisor.

Go ask the 5 wealthiest people you know and ask them how they do it.

You did say "Play" with 25k? That assumes you don't need this money? can afford to lose it? What does "play" mean you you?

Top three choices:

1. I'd start a business.

2. I'd set it aside as an education fund to pay for upgrades to my skill set.

3. I'd loan it all out in small increments on Prosper.com.

Want to give me $75k so I can do all three? I'd settle for just $25k though, since I could always use the profits from one of them to invest in the others.

Posted by Elite:

Why would you invest it in some long term thing when you could flip it into more money NOW. You can always flip money NOW why wait 50 years? Fuck that.

Las Vegas on the poker tables or like DJ, selling crack.

Either way you are gonna need a lot of luck.

Posted by Elite:

Why would you invest it in some long term thing when you could flip it into more money NOW. You can always flip money NOW why wait 50 years? Fuck that.

Ok, and what's your brilliant strategy for doing so? Any strategy is going to require a lot of work. If it was easy, everyone would do it.

Posted by Killa4luv:

You can't do much with 25k these days.

That was the main piece to me. If he said he had $x00,000 to play around with, there'd be more serious ideas.

The miconception about real estate is that its quick (only in apprciating markets and its no work.

Researching the right property takes time. Fixing it up takes time.

Time is money.

Materials costs money.

Closing costs, loans and taxes cost money.

Real estate times time. Time is money.

Once they make tv shows out of it, its about cooked.

Posted by EnySpree:

And to think nobody said they would get knick season tickets....

And you call this a knick fansite?

Why would people want to spend money to watch the Knicks? I paid for one game this season because I wanted to hang. I find this team boring and quite anticlimatic.

Posted by Solace:

Posted by Elite:

Why would you invest it in some long term thing when you could flip it into more money NOW. You can always flip money NOW why wait 50 years? Fuck that.

Ok, and what's your brilliant strategy for doing so? Any strategy is going to require a lot of work. If it was easy, everyone would do it.

The best strategy would require NO work at all, only fun and good feelings. If everyone knew how easy it was everyone could do it.

Posted by Elite:

Posted by Solace:

Posted by Elite:

Why would you invest it in some long term thing when you could flip it into more money NOW. You can always flip money NOW why wait 50 years? Fuck that.

Ok, and what's your brilliant strategy for doing so? Any strategy is going to require a lot of work. If it was easy, everyone would do it.

The best strategy would require NO work at all, only fun and good feelings. If everyone knew how easy it was everyone could do it.

Ok, so what is this strategy?

If I had 25K, I would be a thousandare!