The Fed won’t ever allow it to get as bad as the Great Depression again. Economic knowledge and monetary policy has greatly evolved since then.

The Great Recession is a more recent and likely scenario.

TIL 2000 and 2008 were just fluctuations due to big changes.

Stock market peaked 19 feb, 1.5 months ago. It has lost 17% since then.

That’s an awfully long and persistent fluctuation.

The US stock market has been liberated of 11 trillion dollars and counting.

What a party, what a party.

But alienating our base so that we can lose elections to MAGA republicans is perfectly OK.

Obviously, the problem is with the voters, not us, say the Democrats.

They are (or were) the biggest producer of Fentanyl (allegedly).

But I have also heard experts say that Fentanyl manufacturing is just moving to the US for domestic consumption, so I don’t know if it’s still true.

Not if a trade war can destroy it first!

Another reason to live in a blue state if you can.

Genocide is not just about numbers. If the Bosnian genocide qualifies as a genocide, then Gaza definitely qualifies too.

In my view, the Gaza genocide is also worse than the Holocaust in many respects. For one, most Germans didn’t know about, or support, genocide, nor did the Nazi’s have any kind of democratic mandate.

Whereas in the US and Israel, this is the first time a democracy is committing genocide with popular support.

By all accounts, China isn’t killing Uyghurs, but re-educating them.

The Uyghur genocide is better described as a cultural genocide, not a real genocide.

It is still awful, still bad. But it doesn’t involve large scale murder and it doesn’t meet the criteria used to qualify as a legal genocide.

In contrast, the Gaza genocide is definitely a genocide, as was the trail of tears.

I have only seen them online. I figure they are trolls or bots.

But I do think that China has a better human rights record than the US and Israel.

They are still evil in how they treat Uyghurs, Tibetans and democracy activists. They definitely use torture on dissidents.

But it’s not that difficult to be better than slavery, genocide, war and colonialism. And the US and Israel also use torture.

So maybe I am the tankie that OP refers to.

Not all religions claim to know everything.

Yes, the ones that do tend to be violent and oppressive, so I understand the criticism.

But many religions are more about searching truth, learning to love each other and have community. And their followers definitely tend to be modest and have a “I don’t know enough” mentality.

I realize you are confused.

You don’t appreciate that having 200 shares of a fund today, at today’s valuation, is better than having 100 shares of that same fund today.

Because that’s the point I clearly made, which you ignored and constructed some kind of straw man on which you had your little Don Quixote party on.

And if you really want to understand the philosophy, the point is to take profits prudently and buy bargains when they present themselves. And that’s very much possible without exactly timing the market.

I have never sold at the top and never bought at the bottom. I have no crystal ball to time the market, but I have made a lot of profit buying low and selling high.

I remember the Russian military recruitment offices burning these past years, and their railroads getting sabotaged.

The western press proudly stated “this is what happens when you don’t allow people to protest, they turn to sabotage”.

But I guess this administration missed the memo.

My audience is people who are literate. You’re just reading stuff into my comments that a reasonable person wouldn’t.

And that’s fine, you do your investment strategy. I’m happy with mine.

I would like to see it before I believe it.

Good luck though, hoping the Dems win.

(I am not a US voter, so I have no influence on the outcome)

I agree, especially since interest rates are currently relatively high, it’s quite OK to remain liquid these days.

If you can’t even understand that I am obviously not including things like stock splits, then I don’t think my comment was intended for you.

Timing the exact top and bottom is impossible, but you can always sell at an all-time high and buy at a 52 week low.

Personally, I find it more effective for myself if I frame it in terms of “owning the most shares” instead of “making the most dollars”.

If I started with 100 shares and now have 200 shares, I consider that a win, even if the 200 shares together are worth less than the 100 shares were at one time.

Historically, incompetent authoritarians tend to resort to violence to retain power. (recent example: Maduro in Venezuela).

Tesla is indeed the exception.