And thus the cycle starts to repeat. It seems an eternal problem that people can’t separate individuals and their leaders, which always ends up one side violently killing the other for the actions of the few.

Zionists do not represent all Jews, this needs repeating.

Your right. It could be both. I mean, my wife said to me the other day that she heard Trump was doing the tariffs to lower the bond interest rates. I said while in some types of recessions that’s true, that wouldn’t work in this case and you’d have to be an idiot to think it would. Sure enough the next day Trump puts a stay on tariffs to most of the world because the bond market got rocked. All I could think of is omg, are they really that fucking stupid?

I wish it was that. No, this is actual evil, not incompetence. Trump has turned the US economy into the largest pump and dump scheme ever. Worse, he’s bragging about how his friends made billions. I can’t even believe this is happening. I’m in utter shock. I knew Trump would be bad, but straight up flaunting corruption like it’s a joke and even bringing the SCOTUS on board with this. I’m just gob smacked.

That’s not a bad way to put it. Yes, and bonds will sink slower. It just still will sink. I mean, if I were investing at all, it’d be in bonds. However, I’m not going to pretend it’s safe either.

Sort of? Bonds will be safer, however it also is incredibly dependent on the forward inflation. The flation part of stagflation. If inflation outstrips your bond’s interest, you’re still losing money. So bonds are way safer than other assets, but sadly in this kind of a situation not really safe either.

You don’t understand. Chinese companies have been preparing for this for almost a decade now thanks to US policies. Here’s manufacturing locations just for Moto.

https://motosmartphones.com/where-are-motorola-phones-made/

How much is it really made in Brazil? Enough to by pass the tariffs.

This is transhipment. China has been building an enormous transhipment network with those countries heavily dependent on Chinese heavy machinery and services. They expected this, they prepared for this. It’s the US companies that tried to obey their own countries rules that are susceptible. Even Samsung has been working with China to create these networks. Soon, I would estimate, Apple will as well. The problem is, if you thought Tik Tok was a national security issue, forcing every US company to use Chinese logistics to fight your own countries tariffs…

When you realize Trump represents what Biden represents which is what Obama, Clinton, Bush etc… Then you’ll realize that USA has always been evil. Trump is simply saying out loud the quiet part. To show my point I’ll list a bunch of things they all did in unison.

Genocide, not one president didn’t genocide Arabs. Not one. Obama started 5 wars in the middle East, look at how Syria is turning out because of US interference.

All of them talk about China as a great war engine. A country that has not gone to war in over 40 years.

They all spread lies about human rights issues in other nations as well as force their allies to confirm what they’re saying. Though hilariously Trump isn’t doing well on that last part.

But you know, we should keep thinking our votes matter, so let’s not whataboutism, just lay the blame on the current administration.

Edit. I take back a little bit of what I said. The biggest difference with Trump is the American people are suffering too. At least with prior presidents, they stole resources for America. Trump does not seem to be doing that part and that’s why more people are upset.

We have to make sure the left continues to support Israel. If that means acquiescing to every single Trump demand, then so be it. - Chuck Schumer

I mean, not that I’m OK with any of this. But Trump said he’s not willing to commit to defending Taiwan a few days ago. If Taiwan is on the table, god knows how much money China will be willing to shower on to him and USA. His insane plan might work for a few years while he’s in office. He’s willing to sell what no one else ever was and damn the longterm consequences.

But as an American, he might just be stealing the money to keep America afloat for his term, so I guess that’s nice?

You’re not making any sense. You said to seek out a fiduciary not an advisor. Now you’re claiming that some time in the past, which would be distant past btw, that’s when I should have seeked out a fiduciary? What you’re saying makes no sense. Anyway, EU has the same fiduciary laws for institutional investors like financial advisors.

http://www.purposeofcorporation.org/fiduciary-duties.pdf

So, I don’t know what you’re on about.

Also, it doesn’t matter HOW shit someone can be at their job the reality is it’s easy to fuck it up. So, you just admitted it takes skill to be a financial advisor. Congrats you played yourself.

No, your not understanding that games of skill or chance are both gambling. Being able to identify the difference makes you a gambler who can live off his gambling or one who will go broke. Same trick in investing.

Actually you make a great point. Which is why there’s professional poker, where gamblers can literally make a living. Understanding the difference between being a professional and being able to consistently make money and where to go to do it, is part of the skill I’m talking about. Thanks!

Oh dear lord. A fiduciary is a financial advisor. In fact it’s the purpose of the Series 7 to make sure they’re one and the same. Here’s an article on it.

https://wealthadvisors.smartasset.com/fiduciary-costs-benefits-sem1/

Like I said, if you don’t even understand what I’m saying, it’s not a surprise you’re as ignorant as you are.

*Edit: And just so you know, the reason I keep harping on the series 7 is because it forces financial advisors to be fiduciaries. It’s the WHOLE POINT of the test. Good lord, how do people like you survive in this world?

*Edit 2: Man this comment. You really didn’t know financial advisors have fiduciary responsibility? And yet you knew the word fiduciary? How? How do you exist?

*Edit 3: Wait wait wait, what do you think fiduciary means? I get the feeling you think it means something else.

It’s really not. Which is why there are laws around accredited investing and why agents have to learn the Series 7 and follow Finra rules. But if you literally don’t understand anything I said, it’s obvious why you think it’s magic.

Lets put your hypocrisy in a different light. If all jobs require skill, then the job of a financial advisor requires skill because it’s trivial to make 100k from 10 million? It’s as if your trying to argue that there IS unskilled labor and we should complain about them.

That’s a lot of writing to admit you have no idea what the meaning behind the words I said. Look if you can’t even understand the basics taught in the series 7, you are the target for the rich.

It’s literally not trivial. Again why does the FDIC exist? I didn’t say where is it from. What is it for, what does it protect. Who benefits from its protection. Why do investors need to be accredited, why is there higher risk for accredited investors. And this is purely the intro to what I’m talking about.

There’s literally no safe way to invest at that level. Do you understand what the FDIC is and what they do? Do you understand what an accredited investor is and why they can invest in riskier vehicles? Did the words I just write look like word salad to you?

I genuinely do not understand what your talking about. Elaborate?

The problem is there is no safe way to invest that kind of money. If there was a purely safe way to invest everyone would be a millionaire. The savings account thing you mentioned is literally only for poor people, to give them a leg up and a small increasing investment for the purpose of teaching people the value of investment. You’ve created a strawman and keep smacking it.

Sure they increased their money during the pandemic. People were acting like idiots buying homes and goods when they really really shouldn’t have. It’s also true the rich prey on this. Go try to get 100 million in an interest bank account and see what happens, it’s actually harder to leave that kind of money in interest accounts because of how FINRA regulations work. Your money would literally not be insured. You wouldn’t know these things because you just hear other poor people talk about the rich and not the actual rich.

Thus, the real crux of the problem. The poor don’t even understand well enough what’s happening to make a good argument. Between the wanna be rich poor people who talk about unskilled labor as if you just need to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and the poor who hate the rich, no one actually understands how it all works. And it all WORKS BECAUSE you don’t understand. If the poor didn’t respond the way they did during the pandemic, the rich wouldn’t have been able to hoover up all their money. Who’s taking the 22% loans, who’s buying houses they can’t afford on 30+ year mortgages at 8%. All of those actions make the rich richer. You want to stop the rich? Stop wasting your money. But even if you can, the rest won’t and the money will keep funneling up. Thus the real problem. But no one wants to change their life style. Instead they’ll go out and buy expensive handbags and other luxury items on lay away. You can’t stop the rich as long as everyone participates in capitalism.