Most simply contribute to their Roth or IRA or whatever and let the market play out over decades, just as we were taught.
Long term, it has been a smart play. Very hard to find a historical milestone where a $1 invested in Year X is worth less than year X+10, much less X+40
I’ll believe it when I see it
The private sector isn’t doing jack shit that’s at all useful.
I’m riding in a car to a restaurant to have a delicious meal paid for with a salary I earned at a corporate employer. Private sector is doing plenty of useful shit. But it’s boring, slow growth, antiquated shit. Not what you can speculate on to the tune of a trillion dollars
would like your take on the Buffett Index topping 200% for the first time (total stock market value vs. GDP). It was around 130% in 1929 and 2008.
I mean, Berkshire itself is trading at 15 p/e. So if you take the index seriously, it’s a good place to shelter your money when the storm hits.
But Buffet was a value investor and we’re in a growth investor economy. I wouldn’t say the index is a good indicator of a pending crash any more than it was three years ago.
Considering the disproportionate amount of stocks in AI, and, so far, no clear path to investors seeing a return, I’m scared shitless.
Bulls make money
Bears make money
Pigs get slaughtered
Diversify your portfolio, understand why you think an investment has a bright future (and when that future has dimmed), don’t try to time the market, and don’t beat yourself up if you’re wrong.
I don’t see anything in this market to be afraid of. I see a plethora of opportunities to generate healthy returns long term.
I don’t think Zhang wrote the headline.
Sort of the dig with these stories. Universal problems get spun as Uniquely Bad Country problems and “Chinese engineer gives his fellow enthusiasts good advice” becomes “Don’t trust hardware from Bad Country”
I’m not a fan of the guy but I don’t understand what he’s supposed to do here
Madison was also something of a fuckhead, tbf.
I would argue that this strengthens his campaign.
Imagining you saying this while wearing a big “Pokemon Go To The Polls” T-shirt
Tankies might hate Ukraine but most of the left is very supportive.
“Tankies” were anti-war and staunchly opposed injecting heavy weapons systems into Ukraine back when Trump was doing it in 2018. Liberals ignored Trump’s repeated efforts to stoke tensions between Ukraine and Russia, because it didn’t fit the “Trump Cheeto Suck Putin Dick” narrative they’d fed themselves. Neoconservatives were the most supportive of the Ukraine conflict, because those fuckers never saw a war they couldn’t jill off to. And the apex of this insanity was outed genocidal fascist Yaroslav Hunka getting a standing ovation in Canadian Parliament.
The neocons were so bullish on their war that they openly cavorted with the last living Nazis in order to sell it.
My point around Cheney and Kamala campaigning together was that it only went for the middle
There was no “moderate” voter who supported Kamala after Liz Cheney (a woman who couldn’t hold her seat in the safest Republican state in the country) endorsed her. What Liz Cheney offered Kamala was money from the Oil & Gas industry. She was a nine-figure bribe to abandon climate change policy. If Liz changed anyone’s vote, it likely cost Kamala winnable swing states.
Nobody liked this bitch.
Trying to get the middle in the most boring way possible.
I mean, it was a lot of things. I don’t know about boring.
Harris found one of the most universally reviled (ex-)House Reps and did Girl Power brunch interviews with her so that everyone would know the number one issue for a Harris Presidency was sucking up to neocon ghouls. If you have to ask how Donald J. Trump became the “Peace President” candidate in the year of our lord 2024, this was how. Jeff Flake, Bill Kristol, Cindy McCain, and the Cheney Cartel did spirit fingers at her on public TV on multiple occasions, while her own VP was confined to the cuck chair to just watch the trainwreck of a campaign flare out.
Clown governor getting the standard Trump pimp slap.
This man is never going to be president if Donald Trump can bully him so easily
How did that guy ruin the economy…
He executed an enormous wealth transfer from the general public to a handful of political insiders. Those insiders them rigged the election in his favor.
Some people will tell you this “ruined” the Argentinian economy, the folks in the know recognize that the Free Market is operating exactly how it should.
Crazy to see people clap like seals when Maduro got got, while they seem utterly blase over this corrupt clown clinging to power.
It’s in a bad state because it’s under heavy sanction and periodic military attack.
Honduras, by contrast, is a dictatorship with very friendly US trade relations and little to no risk of being bombed by American jets. So their economy is outperforming.
Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me, (with big yawning)
As plurdled gabbleblotchits,
On a lurgid bee,
That mordiously hath blurted out,
Its earted jurtles, grumbling
Into a rancid festering confectious organ squealer. [drowned out by moaning and screaming]
Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles,
Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts,
And living glupules frart and stipulate,
Like jowling meated liverslime,
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,
And hooptiously drangle me,
With crinkly bindlewurdles.
Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don't!
Texas conservatives will proudly roll out a giant stone monument that proclaims “Thou Shall Not Kill” in front of the big building that signs off on people’s executions.
A lot of what Trump wanted Greenland for was already available to him had he asked nicely (and not had a reputation as a nazi freak). I’m sure he’ll chalk up “using NATO for its intended purpose as it was originally designed” as some kind of negotiation triumph. The better question might be what the rest of Europe plans to do in anticipation of his next flip-flop and reckless power grab.
Currently, Trump’s team is drawing up plans to issue asylum claims to British Jews, on the grounds that they are a persecuted minority within the country and need special protection within the US. As the hysteria around anti-semitism in England crests, one has to wonder what his next move will be.
Americans have a long history of backing friendly dictatorships. The entire history of the Saudi Monarchy is predicated on support from the US and the UK. Same with the military dictatorships in Egypt and Turkiye, as well as the newly installed dictatorship in Syria.
We have beef with Venezuela because it’s socialist not because it’s dictatorial.
The message they want to send is that the law can be arbitrarily applied as justification for violence