• Reisen@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    i hate peter thiel but i also hate nvidia and tesla so i hope this ends out somehow being bad for everyone

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        6 days ago

        I would say I am fairly sure its some kind of afinancial crime to uh, short a company you have a material position in…

        But we live in ‘interesting times’, so… who knows!

        … Maybe he had an ‘interesting chat’ recently, with Michael Burry.

        That would be ‘funny’.

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          I think it’s cute you believe that we live in a world where financial crimes are actually prosecuted.

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            6 days ago

            I remember Enron being prosecuted, we did at one point at least kind of pretend to give a shit.

            But uh… yeah…

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        7 days ago

        Wouldn’t that be below somebody like Thiel? I mean, he is a professional and this seems a bit too much “amateurish”…

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          7 days ago

          He believes that there is a bibilical antichrist alive right now, and he can stop it but also shouldn’t. He’s disconnected from reality so severely, he lives in a completely different world. The fact that he’s rich is not a testament of his professional capabilities, but to the fact that in current capitalist environment, the only prerequisite for being rich is to be lucky and have zero morals

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          7 days ago

          This comment is a joke, right? How do you think these people became so wealthy in the first place?

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            7 days ago

            I don’t say it would MORALLY below him, quiet the contrary, but more from a skill level. Acting so obviously would be just amateurish.

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              7 days ago

              Acting so obviously would be just amateurish.

              Please stop thinking of these people as massively brained smart people, instead of just being rich and lucky. These guys are just in it to make the number go up, don’t think they have any floor to how low these fuckers would sink

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      6 days ago

      The best case, I think, is for Nvidia and Tesla to do well in the short term (next 6 months or so) and then crash. That way Thiel and most people following his investment advice get to eat it, but the bubble doesn’t stay propped up for too long.

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    7 days ago

    Hilarious that at the end of this specific article, for me, an ad popped up advertising AI investing 😂 Jesus we are so fucked

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      7 days ago

      Honestly, if someone is goi g to pick shit at random, I rather have AI do it for 5 bucks a month than abnaker for 200k a year.

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    6 days ago

    Sooooo that gives us how long, exactly, until we dive nose first into a huge world wide recession?

    Remove the rich

    Nobody should be allowed to be a billionaire, put max caps on netwoths. Anything over 10-20 million should go 100% to tax

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      6 days ago

      We don’t let individuals own nuclear weapons. We shouldn’t allow individuals to wield financial weapons.

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        Idk how this doesn’t make more sense to people. Eradicate Billionares worldwide, not just one country. Nobody should starve when Robotics are doing all of the work.

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      I don’t know much about these things, but since there’s zero actual value in all this tech bullshit, does it even fucking matter if they crash and burn?

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    6 days ago

    Peter Thiel and Donald j Trump are both best friends with Jeffrey r Epstein and child rapists.

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      7 days ago

      The next year before the Midterms is going to be a wild circus.

      The criminal attacks on the entire democratic process will be at a new peak.

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      7 days ago

      I hope your 401K is diversified

      When the MAG7 makes up half the S&P 500, its hard to get away from. Even if you somehow manage to avoid holding a big tech company (or a company that’s predicated on the spending of a Big Tech company), a downturn will force cascading sell-offs.

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      7 days ago

      Does anyone 401k even let them choose what they want to invest in?

      I have like 4 plans I can choose: Retire 2035, Retire 2045, Retire 2055, Retire 2065 and that’s it.

      No options in the portal to do anything else. I can’t choose my stocks, any indexes, anything. The only other page is to change my contribution percent.

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        6 days ago

        Yup, I have ~15 options. Basically:

        • low cost S&P 500, US mid-cap fund, US small-cap fund, and total international funds (all under 0.10% ER)
        • 1-2 actively managed options for each of the first bullet point with much higher fees
        • 3 bond funds
        • a cash fund
        • a retirement fund (tons of bonds and cash)

        I’m in a mix of the first bullet point.

        401ks won’t let you pick specific stocks, generally speaking, but they should have more options than just target date funds. Most will at least have an S&P 500 fund and usually an international fund.

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        I have a 403(b) because I work at a university but yes we get to pick between a ton of stock funds but also a handful of blended assets, an invested bond, and a non-invested bond if you really think shit’s gonna go south. My last job did not offer this kind of thing tho.

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        7 days ago

        line go up (but bad) From what I can tell, it looks like there are a lot of loans out right now, the rate at which they are issued has increased since the beginning of the Trump presidency has increased dramatically, and this is like really bad because If those loans don’t get paid back then pillars start collapsing underneath the financial system. Lose too many of those and the whole thing comes crashing down.

        This one graph doesn’t represent all of the bad that is going on, it’s just a sort of a weathervane to tell you which way the wind is blowing. …and right now it’s blowing where the sun don’t shine.

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          7 days ago

          You may ask what are NDFIs ?

          (NDFIs) such as broker-dealers, hedge funds, private equity and credit funds, securitization vehicles and subprime auto lenders. Such lending to the financial sector has helped fuel record-high leverage among hedge funds, decade-high leverage among primary dealers, record-high and rising margin debt, and record-high and rising repurchase agreement (repo) lending to hedge funds and others, which in turn has helped fuel record-high asset prices in many cases

          source again https://adamjosephson.substack.com/p/ndfi-loans-are-far-larger-than-we

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        Thriving. The Trump Era has been gangbusters for crypto, as he’s made all sorts of crazy promises about building a federally financed coin reserve and stuffing it with digital crap.