Stronger currency means higher wages, in purchasing power. Japan's rich with good income equality. Bubble bust in ~92, working age population peaked in 95. And culturally, they dont like the layoffs required to restructure an economy. After covid not sure I like it either. China's also entering the ...

^ thanks for update. Looks like ill be forced into Canada's MAID https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/yxayan/canada_will_soon_allow_medically_assisted_dying/?sort=controversial Lived with grandma during her last 10 years. what TV narratives dont tell you is its not simply "memory loss" like ...

Needs to be easier for people to move to lower cost-of-living areas. Feds should subsidize movers and manage a national jobs database. No minimum wage = no unemployment. Make it easy to get food stamps for healthy food. No one is going to abuse it and eat too many vegetables. Maybe me and Vinny. FEM...

Why be overweight unless you know something markets dont. And the news/narrative on Apple is negative this week, it would be time to buy.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/investin ... index.html

1 gram kratom in 1oz vodka, before gym. Slaps on an empty stomach.

Afghanistan, Syria. Proxy wars with Russia forever. > No one prays for a crisis Unless it pays them to stay home. Crypto took a bite out of gold. But it's up in other currencies https://www.bullionvault.com/gold-price-chart.do https://goldprice.org/gold-price-charts/10-year-gold-price-history-in-ind...

Biden is demented and no one cares what he does. The Left is winning because they are not naive about heroism. A Leftist foot soldier will follow Kamala or whomever the collective puts up. Men on the Right want a hero and thats not realistic in disinformation warfare. So the Left hypes Trump, who ge...

The more indictments the better, to provoke Trump's base and take votes from DeSantis. Ron actually does things, eg migrants to Obamas house.

If you want centrist discussion try https://old.reddit.com/r/Conservative/

The only things crushed are long bonds?

And we're only able to have have this conversation because civilization was saved by the vaccine. Thats nice isnt it?

"great reset"

Crypto hype took a bite out of gold and now they're defending the dollar via rates. I dunno why they dont raise taxes or cut spending to fight inflation given the cost of paying interest

> don't we all have to make speculations on the future of interest rates

Bruh. What attracted you to a set-and-forget investing forum

> I posed this question to a former coworker who had also worked as a banker on Wall Street. His opinion was that now is NOT the time to buy long-term Treasuries as he believes the Fed rate is going to hit 7.0%. doesnt necessitate 30 year going higher. yield curve's inverted. https://en.macromicro.m...

You'll be waiting a long time for a politician who can stick a pure ideology and isnt a "hypocrite." College was a lot different in the 90s. But I'm not going to defend him, sure he's a scumbag, whatever, bottom line is he fought back against martial law while Trump was playing golf.

cash in a local bank and Vanguard. Too big to fail too watched to scam you.

Cure for loneliness is to get vinny-pilled. I explode out of bed like a cannonball to pull up his latest posts.

Also Dell delayed again, gonna ask for another 10% off. It'll be 30 days. Plandemic rent's due in LA county. Already a mile of RVs next to USC hospital

When to sell: https://www.doctorofcredit.com/212507-2/ From the comments: "Trying to understand this logic and think through the math. Assuming you sell your i bond before 5 years, you have to pay a penalty of the last 3 months interest. so let’s look at a sample 6 month period. For the first 3 mont...

still underweight long bonds, but doubled EDV. Its at 4%, Fedfunds 5%. Last time fedfunds was this high was 2007 and there was less debt then. Last hiking cycle we got "covid" so what narrative are we gonna get this time the Fed breaks the market then bails it out? Also like last cycle, there wont b...

which industry. my tenant got laid off by a big university last week. moved a little into cash, but even if there's a correction, will I be able to get back in before the money printer goes to 11

Presumably everyone here pays off cards monthly. Lowering your overall available credit should only ding your score a few points. Citi lets you do online soft-pull CLIs every 6 months and in my experience increases each card by ~2k.

Not knowing about index funds till 40. Grandpa said stocks were too risky. All cash 2005-2015. "Luckily" they gave me two mortgages in 2005...despite no income. Started PP in 2016 and bought a slug of 30years at 2.33% just before trump won and rates spiked.

Chrome wont update on Windows 7 anymore and they are throttling some websites like twitter on my old version. Forced to get a new laptop. I bought my current Gateway NV5929U with 4GB RAM for $600 in 2010 from TigerDirect. So many small files have accumulated over the years that the HDD struggles. h...

What did the millions of social justice warriors do before social media. Jobs? School? Raise children? edit1: More TV and movies is one thing

Glanced at the article. "Climate change" is not the only goal. Being less dependent on Russian and Saudi oil is good.

Chrome wont update on Windows 7 anymore and they are throttling some websites like twitter on my old version. Forced to get a new laptop. I bought my current Gateway NV5929U with 4GB RAM for $600 in 2010 from TigerDirect. So many small files have accumulated over the years that the HDD struggles. ht...

As the poorest person here, hard to feel sorry for someone with that problem =) iBonds are a free lunch, morlike cash than a bond and usually pay better than cash alternatives. You could argue the gov has a responsibility to offer you something that matches real inflation tho edit1: IIRC 10k per yea...