The Stock Market Thread

I still feel like stocks aren’t real.

we put a set percentage every paycheck into them but mentally it feels like I’m making a payment.

I hope some of the crypto currencies workout and decentralize some of the power from the state but I don’t understand it and feels fake to me too.


I generally just buy land once we get enough money saved up that I feel like we’re wasting it in the bank.

 

It’s down from the top. No one said people aren’t stupid

 

If you can find a few that generate some nice dividends, that’s good way to get a little cash back while continuing to grow your portfolio.

 

Why? In gambling the outcome is variable.

In stocks, it is not. In a stock, yes. But in stocks, no. Which is why you diversify, across lots of stocks in various industries.

The only thing that can bring such a thing down is the end of days.

The overall market may go down, here and there, but will bounce back.

 

Market goes up 7 out of 10 years on average. Just don’t put all your money in tesla or any one stock. Put it in an index fund and forget it

 

Are you trying to put yourself out of business?!?

 

90 percent of people don’t have the discipline to actually do this and save enough for retirement and need hand holding.

 

Every penny I have is in a mutual fund io some type.

 

NFTs are beanie babies for rich people

 

When you fellers lose your pants, just don't come digging around my back yard.

 

I know, it is satire, but I laugh at Roger Horton.

 

Any thoughts on how to fix the supply chain mess?

 

Penalize trucking companies that do not honor their appointments for container pickup at ports. Most countries do. We don't. Now that the ports are open 24 hours, trucking is not utilizing those night hours and still regularly missing schedule pickups, creating less available space for offloading ships.

 

Truckers are pretty heavily regulated based on hours they can drive and all that jazz. It's hard to find people committed to driving only 8 hour stretches, and all at night.

But it's ripe for automation... one day.

 

It's coming.

 

Here is the problem, and I say this have 2 trucking companies as clients - it's insanely hard to do when there are not enough truck drivers. This is one area that isn't just political BS, it's 100% accurate. There are not enough drivers.

 

And yet the interstates are bumper to bumper semi's. We have built a system on trucking with "just in time" shipping around the world. This is the natural outcome to a global event like COVID. It'll take a year for this to smooth out. Maybe we should reconsider doing some central planning. and using rail more.

 

And, we all know what happened next.

 

They've regulated the trucking industry too much and has killed the little guys, and now it's mostly big players.

california has their own state regulations that's only adding to it on not allowing older trucks on the roads

 

maybe because if they didn't, there would still be a poisonous brown cloud over the state.