But I thought Trump was going to make the economy great again /s 🤣
He’ll issue an executive order establishing that the market can only go up
Change to down color to green.
He disbanded the US government agency that develops the annual GDP numbers. Guess how they’ll figure those out next year?
If you guessed “we’ll make some up that are higher than last year” then you’re spot on.
The numbers will go up. Nobody knew they could go up. It’s unheard of.
Signing those with his big-boy Sharpie is about al he knows about actually governing lol
I mean for the longest time it only has gone up… And that’s not sustainable
https://www.macrotrends.net/1319/dow-jones-100-year-historical-chart
Perfect time to buy
He will. But not for us.
iT BiDeN’S EcoNMY! /j
He didn’t tell us how bad it was, so we added tariffs on everything.
Everyone here mentioning billionaires and missing the point that the Russian agent in charge is just doing his best to deliver any and all assets to Russia. Sanctions getting lifted just as the fire sale on American assets begins right before the civil unrest. If you’re a Russian dictator you could not have planned it better. Republicans are seriously the dumbest mother/sister fuckers on the planet. I can’t even believe how fucking stupid you’d have to be to hold “conservative views”. Like it does not compute how you can be that dumb
Like it does not compute how you can be that dumb
Easy, lack of education (or even actively detrimental ‘education’), courtesy of decades of Republican sabotage of the education system
I think he’s doing this deliberately. Encourage people to sell, so his buddies can scoop up stocks at low prices.
it’s so much more than stocks. stocks are mostly vibes and short term get rich schemes for already wealthy people. they’re Pokemon cards for the finance class, creating almost nothing tangibly beneficial to society. hype and FUD in an endless cycle.
you can’t eat stocks. you can’t warm your house with stocks. you can’t manufacture solar panels with stocks.
real wealth, the serious fuck you Big Money, depends on the ownership and distribution of real resources: real estate, agricultural land, factories, pipelines, commerical buildings, capital infrastructure. these are what the ultra wealthy buy up during recessions and then charge rents and leases for everyone else to pay, forever. forget about owning land or a home, your kids can’t compete with someone paying cash on a 600k house or snatching up entire portfolios of hundreds of rentals in a single purchase.
bailouts and blank checks given out as PPP loans to “business owners” during Covid redistributed wealth from the taxpayers (government) into the hands of the wealthiest people in the world. they can then convert their Pokemon collections into real wealth generating resources. government bailouts to corporations become an engine for not just making the rich richer but the types of assets they then acquire using that money cements them at the top of the wealth generation food chain forever.
Trump 2.0 is engineering another massive redistribution, even bigger and more focused on real estate than before. he made his fake reputation on real estate. loyalist oligarchs who bank rolled dark maga will be handsomely rewarded with the newly emptied government office buildings and public lands.
and your kids and grandkids will be homeless.
I used “stocks” as shorthand. I agree with what you wrote.
yup, I’d buy apple or microsoft or nvidia because they are going down now but will go up certainly in 1 or 2 days or even weeks/months. Except tesla, this one will go down and down and down for days/weeks/months, tesla stock is super toxic, dump all of it.
I agree and I bought Nvidia. There will be a bounce up soon.
The problem is, nobody else knows how low the prices would be.
One of the things almost no one talks about is how the prices of luxuries has totally outstripped inflation.
In 1960, minimum wage was $1.00/hour, the average US home was $11,000.00 and a big night on the town was $20.00 for dinner and a show for two people, with drinks and car fare thrown in. Pizza and beer at home was $1.00. A ticket to the first Super Bowl was under $20.00.
This is intentional. The billionaires are salivating waiting in the wings to buy up as much as possible when the prices are low.
Billionaries just short the stocks and make tons on the way down as well.
Recession speed run.
It’s crazy that with a tariff on energy, utilities and energy are up lmao.
Oil companies were the biggest contributions to the project 25
Welcome to inelastic demand. They take a percentage of what they charge, and they have to charge more because of the tariffs, so they basically get to take more for free because you have to pay more for it, and you have no choice in the matter.
Economic downturns are WHAT REPUBLICANS DO 👏 crab cakes and football 👏
bUt doNaLd is a gREat bUSinESs mAN! /s
The people have spoken! Trump is so much better for the economy! /s
Damn the people are dumb as fuck
So. Fucking. Dumb.
Margin of error +/-52%.
Every time I see these two side by side I think of the smiler and the beast from transmetropolitan
“Small price to pay to own the libs!” the faithful cry as they slowly eat their daily ration (one egg and a slice of wonder bread)
Eggs? In this economy?!
“Shut up about the eggs”
- Donald Trump
Look at Mr Fancy over here eating a whole egg every day.
We should create a WallStreetBets Lemmy community here to discuss our possible trades.
From the article:
“We see some irony in the recent outperformance by foreign markets over the U.S. markets. In our view, foreign companies in Europe, Asia, and Latin America are likely to suffer even more from deployment of tariffs than companies in the U.S.”
I think they are overestimating the amount of trade flowing into the US. Tariffs will directly impacg US companies and customers, but they’ll also decrease the demand for foreign products. That will cause a challenge, if not outright recession worldwide, but I still think that foreign companies would be able to mitigate the drop in demand from the US better than US companies coping with supply shortages and higher prices.
Looks like I might have made the right choice keeping my non-401k savings out of a market index fund for now.
Not unless you’re retiring soon. You want to buy when things are low.
That’s why I said “for now”. I was mulling buying in after the election when corporate interests were riding high on a “pro business” President. But I didn’t. Now I have that cash free to buy in when we hit the bottom of the slump, if there is a bottom…
There have been studies showing that just dollar cost averaging is a better strategy then trying to time the market using market sentiment for long term gains.
There might not be a bottom? Damn.
I sold all of my stocks a couple weeks back and I’m feeling pretty fucking good about that right now.
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My employee stock purchase plan went through recently. I missed selling before the dip caused by all the other employees selling. Normally I will ride it out for a bit and the stock jumps back up but this time I had a sense it was going to just keep dropping. I waited a couple hours for it to partially rebound and managed to time it perfectly, it’s only been downhill since I sold lol
Well done. Timing the re-entry is difficult as well.
To be totally honest, this isn’t about stock market gamesmanship to me–I’m not trying to buy the dip over the next few days. (If anything I’m waiting for the AI bubble, which I personally believe is bigger than the .com bubble, to blow the fuck up.)
Between incompetent idiots and assholes running everything, ridiculously inflated stock prices, meme stocks and market manipulation, on-again-off-again trade war bullshit, and the AI bubble, I’m happy to have my money out of the market. I have zero faith in the people who are running our economy to do anything worth investing in, and I’ll be perfectly happy to find alternative means of investing over the next 2-4 years.
Frankly, I’m sick of putting almost my entire life savings in the hands of corporations and the delusional k-holed fucknuts like Musk who run them. It’s a bonus that I’m no longer the shameful owner of bullshit ETFs and company shares that serve only to enrich and empower the richest corporate oligarchs.
I’ve lived through multiple crashes already, maybe I’ll hop back into the stock market during the next one, or maybe not because fuck this whole system.
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I’m SO READY to buy the dip in a year and a half
Recent recessions have shown that the top 1% get richer after the recession. It makes sense when you think about the super rich having the cash to invest is now much cheaper stocks and property while everyone else is struggling to make ends meet.
So I wonder how much the Nazi and the monkey want to avoid a recession. The monkey does not have to worry about reelection and the Nazi is a psychopath.
Rip my year-old IRA…
