• rose56@lemmy.zip
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    Let it come! If can’t see the sings, then you shouldn’t do stupid things. But guess what, USA corporate greediness is bellow stupidity.
    God bless Trump and it’s Tech companies!

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    Everyone here is so excited for the bubble to pop, even though it would make everyone’s life harder.

    As for me? I too am also excited for it to pop.

    Why? Well what the hell is the alternative, I’ll take a market correction and return to sane time any day of the week but it seems that them oligarchs are too horney for their game of financial Russian roulette.

    I rather them putting the gun down, but if they insist on playing then I want them to lose faster.

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    20 hours ago

    Gen-X, having lived through 1987 (Black Monday), ~2000 Dot-Com Bubble burst , 2008 global financial meltdown, and the 2020 COVID-19 crash:

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      As a 44-year old who lived through all of those once-in-a-lifetime events (you also forgot 9/11) just once in my life, I’d like a boring decade where nothing happens.

      Between the wars, politics, global terror, economic upheaval and the general state of things… I’m really fucking tired boss.

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        Neither did the vast majority of Gen-X. The cocaine 80’s is peak Boomer shit.

        EDIT: I was born in 73. Started uni in 90. Let’s say you wanted to ride that mid 80’s wave, you should have been in the workforce by 84, that puts you born ~63. By the majority of lists, Gen-X starts on 65.

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          Yeah. I went to school with rich kids who were suddenly worried about whether daddy could pay for college after that 1987 crash.

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            dad bailed on us for good that winter. left mom and us kids with nothing. he spent several years globe-trotting with his flavor-of-the-month mistress.

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              I’m sorry that you had to experience that. I hope you all eventally survived and thrived.

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            19 hours ago

            Yeah, 1988-1996 was pretty bad. It was my computer hobby that saved my life. No idea where I’d be today had I not turned my side hustle into a career.

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              I guess I was “lucky” in that I was too poor to be directly impacted my the market back then. But I was young, energetic and at my peak looks-wise, so I can’t shit on that era too much.

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          Many kids had part time jobs in highschool. Plus that still directly impacted kids graduating into a good vs bad economy. Younger Gen x, sure. But it still benefits older and mid Gen x.

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        19 hours ago

        Most of us were coming of age in the 80s and working at a grocery store if at all.

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    12 hours ago

    Yes, please. Yeah, they are gonna get bailed out, but:

    1. Not by my gov
    2. At least some of these AI cunts, driving the bubble, will end up broke, hopefully
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    19 hours ago

    So should I withdraw whatever i have in technology index funds, while I have the gains?

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      If you have a place to park it that will earn more or lose less, definitely. Putting into cash will lose at least 3% per year.

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        19 hours ago

        I’m thinking withdraw my gains, wait for the crash, buy in again? Damn, it’s a gamble…

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          Timing the market usually fails. Dollar cost averaging can give you a small advantage.

          Assuming that AI follows a similar path as the .com boom… A lot of companies will go under leaving a few companies who will benefit greatly. It’s not that AI is going away. We’re just pruning the dead wood.

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            thank fuck there is some rstional advice here

            don’t time the market you helpless gambling addicts

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          The AI bubble won’t be a typical dip. Some, maybe most, of these companies will be wiped out. No idea as to who crawls out the blast crater, but there will be survivors.

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        My uneducated and impoverished thought is cash will buy you real estate which is about to get really cheap, whereas any stock you buy today is going to have a severe crash very soon.

        But most of my investments are in beans: i’ve got jars or black, red, garbanzos, kidney, and navy beans; also a variety of lentils.

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          Real estate has the potential to be cheap in 20 years as the baby boomers die leaving smaller generations to buy their larger number of homes.

          Any kind of asset can be a good investment. If you have a place to store it, classic cars only go up in price and some of them are under 10K. Bonus: you get to drive them. I know someone whose 401k is mostly collectable guns (rare, 100+ years old guns). You just need to choose something with lasting value. Don’t repeat the Beanie Baby crash.

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      I bought 30 AMD stocks for $13 a pop almost 10 years ago. Last month I sold 5 for $3200 (~$640 each) today they are about $500 each. Really wishing I had sold all of them.

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      In theory you could short Microsoft, NVidia, etc. but the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent, so even though those stock prices are a crack fueled fever dream, betting against them is likely gonna be a trip to the poor house. I saw someone on here recommend some funds that are mostly large cap, traditional companies (read, not big tech) and some bond funds. I was going to research his recs today and see if it would make sense to move some money out of the S&P 500 index fund that I lean on way too much (of couse, it would have been better if I considered this a week ago 🤦🏾).

      Lemme see if I can dig up that post…

      Hopefully this link works, I’m using Voyager and haven’t figured out how to link posts https://lemmy.world/comment/26583022

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      Depends on your risk profile. But if you look at the growing capex and consecutive negative free cash flow of big tech, it is a sign of worry if you are only investing short term or you do swing trades.

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    Damn, my retirement fund is gonna look like shit the next few years but It’s over 3 decades until I’m gonna touch that money so I guess I’m fine. Not sure I wanna try to time the market and put it all into bonds for the next 1-5 years until the actual burst shows up. (It’s 85% global index)

    Good thing the majority of my regular savings is in bonds and high-yield saving accounts.

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      over 3 decades until I’m gonna touch that money

      Say hello to Anthropogenic climate tipping-points.

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        wet bulb gonna last longer than air con infrastructure

        might as well set it all on fire

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      It’s only down like 1% from last week. I wouldn’t change anything unless you can’t sleep at night. Could have an AI bubble pop like 30% of the market but I would expect it to eventually recover. I personally prefer not to worry so don’t have much in stocks compared to most people who have retirement accounts

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    Only if you panic-sold.

    In investing gains and losses are only realized when you sell a security, and over time, just buying and holding has been all the strategy most people have needed thanks to the market’s consistent growth.

    The downside is that anyone invested in a 401k probably has shares in a mutual fund that will be negatively impacted when the AI Bubble pops. It will be interesting to see what happens in the short-term, though, especially if (and almost certainly when) Donald loses total congressional control.