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The Stock Market - What the Heck?
2-8-18 | Vanity

Posted on 02/08/2018 2:12:16 PM PST by CincyRichieRich

I'm an investor, and like most here, overwhelmed with the sources to read, the Q Anon stuff, the stimuli, the conspiracies...and now, a few days of stock market drops - including today's 1000 pt drop. I'd like to discuss with anyone who will participate, as to causes, where from here, etc.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: dow; soros; stockmarket; stockmarketplunge; stocks; trump
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To: CincyRichieRich

A lot of people seem to like it, the day traders are eating it up.

Buying to the dips and selling on the tips.


181 posted on 02/09/2018 6:17:03 AM PST by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
You do realize that the Federal Reserve is not a part of the US federal government? That is is a private entity?

Is that why the "shareholders" received dividends of $784 million of last year's Fed profits, while the US Treasury only received $80.2 billion?

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/other20180110a.htm

We need to audit the federal reserve.

Here's 2015 and 2016.

182 posted on 02/09/2018 7:55:19 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Zhang Fei

Interesting observation. Try that, however, in China.

In Japan you could likely get away with it. I would think dumping Chinese property and driving the value down in a market with 28 ghost cities in it would be bad form.

I completely agree with you.

I noticed a story today about the exodus from the SF Bay Area - everything from San Jose North to SF and East to Danville.

UHaul is hiring drivers to get their rigs back.

What a mess out there. I grew up there.


183 posted on 02/09/2018 8:02:28 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: Vermont Lt

Baby boomers may not be heavily into stocks, but they might have some mutual funds or favorite stocks that they have held onto over the years because they’ve always done well. My dad is almost 90 years old but still holding on to his Caterpillar stock. CD’s and savings basically pay almost nothing, so if you want to keep up with inflation, you have to take a little risk, at least.


184 posted on 02/09/2018 8:23:09 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Zhang Fei

Not according to the book I read. He ran a fund that was nothing more than a Ponzi scheme whereby he submitted fake investment return documents to holders.


185 posted on 02/13/2018 3:06:38 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Sam Gamgee
Not according to the book I read. He ran a fund that was nothing more than a Ponzi scheme whereby he submitted fake investment return documents to holders.

If he had done that, he would have spent a stint in prison and been banned from the securities industry for life, not be pontificating on CNBC. Did he talk his book and paint the tape? Sure. But that's fairly common practice in the industry, and not illegal.

186 posted on 02/13/2018 5:31:16 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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