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Anonymous wrote:We need the retirement accounts because globalization killed defined benefit pensions. In addition to blue collar jobs.

No. What you need is...restraint. Who said pensions were a given? Who said, retirement accounts should be mostly invested in stonks?? There's a reason a 60/40 split of stocks/bonds was considered a balanced portfolio. Look at the 10y yield. It has not dropped this much, this fast for quite a while. It's doing the job of the Fed, causing rates to go down, without bowing at Powell's feet.

We've been living large on borrowed time and money for far too long. If the current events actually stick and cause "reality" to rear its head, we're looking at a lot of pain. And that pain is needed.

Ah! I recognize you! You are the small business owner who paid off their mortgage, barely invests in the market, and has no understanding of how economies work. You are embarrassing yourself with this talk about restraint. It’s like you live in a different metaverse where you are trying to out the globalization - the genie in the bottle back in.

No. I'm independently wealthy and a partner at a "Big 4" firm...in policy support. I may not be directly connected to the President (or Elon for that matter), but I'm in the room when these big policy decisions are being discussed.

Well I hope you get a haircut just like the rest of us. But you're probably poised to do some insider trading that you'll never get busted for.

Both statements are true. My portfolio will take a hit, just like anybody else, and yes, I do have access to non-public information. Regularly. Whether I choose to act on it or not...is complicated.

Let us know how that goes…

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Anonymous wrote:You can't really turn the world's economic order on its head and not expect repercussions. And now that the United States has demonstrated it's no longer a serious nation, but instead one that can be jerked around and will jerk around others based on the whims of a felonious, idiotic shithead, good luck putting that genie back in the bottle. Many people are going to have their retirements shattered and many businesses will fail.

"one that can be jerked around" - True. That has been happening for decades.

"will jerk around others" - Should have happened decades ago, but didn't.

"on the whims of a felonious, idiotic shithead" - But...no one else took action.

"good luck putting that genie back in the bottle" - Agreed. Gonna be wild.

"Many people are going to have their retirements shattered" - The same people who were driving G-Wagons, because ...stonks!! ? The average person has very little exposure to the capital markets, this is only affecting the wealthy. They can take it.

"many businesses will fail" - Should have happened decades ago. All these zombie companies that exists solely because we kept cost of money so low for so long...

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Anonymous wrote:We need the retirement accounts because globalization killed defined benefit pensions. In addition to blue collar jobs.

No. What you need is...restraint. Who said pensions were a given? Who said, retirement accounts should be mostly invested in stonks?? There's a reason a 60/40 split of stocks/bonds was considered a balanced portfolio. Look at the 10y yield. It has not dropped this much, this fast for quite a while. It's doing the job of the Fed, causing rates to go down, without bowing at Powell's feet.

We've been living large on borrowed time and money for far too long. If the current events actually stick and cause "reality" to rear its head, we're looking at a lot of pain. And that pain is needed.

Ah! I recognize you! You are the small business owner who paid off their mortgage, barely invests in the market, and has no understanding of how economies work. You are embarrassing yourself with this talk about restraint. It’s like you live in a different metaverse where you are trying to out the globalization - the genie in the bottle back in.

No. I'm independently wealthy and a partner at a "Big 4" firm...in policy support. I may not be directly connected to the President (or Elon for that matter), but I'm in the room when these big policy decisions are being discussed.

Anonymous wrote:As long as foreign markets tank more than us it is a war of attrition until the other countries capitulate to ripping off usa. We all know that everyone else needs to come to parity or pay for to the USA as we are subsidizing the world

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Anonymous wrote:We need the retirement accounts because globalization killed defined benefit pensions. In addition to blue collar jobs.

No. What you need is...restraint. Who said pensions were a given? Who said, retirement accounts should be mostly invested in stonks?? There's a reason a 60/40 split of stocks/bonds was considered a balanced portfolio. Look at the 10y yield. It has not dropped this much, this fast for quite a while. It's doing the job of the Fed, causing rates to go down, without bowing at Powell's feet.

We've been living large on borrowed time and money for far too long. If the current events actually stick and cause "reality" to rear its head, we're looking at a lot of pain. And that pain is needed.

Ah! I recognize you! You are the small business owner who paid off their mortgage, barely invests in the market, and has no understanding of how economies work. You are embarrassing yourself with this talk about restraint. It’s like you live in a different metaverse where you are trying to out the globalization - the genie in the bottle back in.

No. I'm independently wealthy and a partner at a "Big 4" firm...in policy support. I may not be directly connected to the President (or Elon for that matter), but I'm in the room when these big policy decisions are being discussed.

Well I hope you get a haircut just like the rest of us. But you're probably poised to do some insider trading that you'll never get busted for.

Both statements are true. My portfolio will take a hit, just like anybody else, and yes, I do have access to non-public information. Regularly. Whether I choose to act on it or not...is complicated.

Anonymous wrote:As long as foreign markets tank more than us it is a war of attrition until the other countries capitulate to ripping off usa. We all know that everyone else needs to come to parity or pay for to the USA as we are subsidizing the world

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Anonymous wrote:We need the retirement accounts because globalization killed defined benefit pensions. In addition to blue collar jobs.

No. What you need is...restraint. Who said pensions were a given? Who said, retirement accounts should be mostly invested in stonks?? There's a reason a 60/40 split of stocks/bonds was considered a balanced portfolio. Look at the 10y yield. It has not dropped this much, this fast for quite a while. It's doing the job of the Fed, causing rates to go down, without bowing at Powell's feet.

We've been living large on borrowed time and money for far too long. If the current events actually stick and cause "reality" to rear its head, we're looking at a lot of pain. And that pain is needed.

Why, other than having heard on the Fox, do you think that pain is needed? DO you truly believe that this will bring back a manufacturing jobs? Best case scenario is maybe that manufacturing labor force goes up 3-4% from 7% to 11 % total US jobs. Automation is what's really has been keeping manuf employment in check and that will not change. SO peasants will have to pay more for the goods and they will still have the same shitty service sector jobs.

Pain is needed...because...a dual income household today...has the same purchasing power as a single income household in the 70s. Take a wild guess what happened in the 70s. I'll answer it. Bretton Woods.

We SHOULD be more prosperous than we are with dual incomes...but we're not. The last 50yrs have been all about...pick your adjective. The problem is, nobody did anything about it until now. With Trump. Whether you like him or not is irrelevant, he's putting wheels in motion that are reminiscent of a bygone era.

Deal with it.

The relentless stupidity of this type of post is the problem. The morons are fully in charge.

This is what’s happened - we don’t listen to each other and respectfully disagree.
No more civility- just name-calling.

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Anonymous wrote:We need the retirement accounts because globalization killed defined benefit pensions. In addition to blue collar jobs.

No. What you need is...restraint. Who said pensions were a given? Who said, retirement accounts should be mostly invested in stonks?? There's a reason a 60/40 split of stocks/bonds was considered a balanced portfolio. Look at the 10y yield. It has not dropped this much, this fast for quite a while. It's doing the job of the Fed, causing rates to go down, without bowing at Powell's feet.

We've been living large on borrowed time and money for far too long. If the current events actually stick and cause "reality" to rear its head, we're looking at a lot of pain. And that pain is needed.

Why, other than having heard on the Fox, do you think that pain is needed? DO you truly believe that this will bring back a manufacturing jobs? Best case scenario is maybe that manufacturing labor force goes up 3-4% from 7% to 11 % total US jobs. Automation is what's really has been keeping manuf employment in check and that will not change. SO peasants will have to pay more for the goods and they will still have the same shitty service sector jobs.

Pain is needed...because...a dual income household today...has the same purchasing power as a single income household in the 70s. Take a wild guess what happened in the 70s. I'll answer it. Bretton Woods.

We SHOULD be more prosperous than we are with dual incomes...but we're not. The last 50yrs have been all about...pick your adjective. The problem is, nobody did anything about it until now. With Trump. Whether you like him or not is irrelevant, he's putting wheels in motion that are reminiscent of a bygone era.

Deal with it.

The relentless stupidity of this type of post is the problem. The morons are fully in charge.

Anonymous wrote:It seems that it is better to sell even considering the capital gains taxes. At least you'll increase your tax basis when you het back in later. At some point you'd pay capital gains taxes anyway unless you plan to die with the stocks.