except that corporate earnings have been supporting the markets gains. please tell us you don’t buy a stock because it has a low price? lulz

numbers in an investment account aren’t real money. they are just numbers. after all, whatever goes up, has to come down.

Not always. As an equity account falls below margin requirement, typically 50%, expect broker notification to fund the paper loss.

Sure hasn’t worked that way with inflation over the years. Nor with a BROADLY diversified mutual fund.
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Doesn’t mean it can’t, nor that it won’t, but how are your silver dollars buried in a coffee can in the back yard doing? Do you still remember where you buried them?

Just kidding, although I do know a family who - when grandpa fell off the twig - had to uproot the whole back and front yard before they dared sell the house. Fortunately the Friends of the Library they donated the collection of novels to called them up when they dropped one of the old guy’s library and $20 bills came fluttering out from every 25 pages or so…

Short term, potentially true.

Long term it's always gone up, we know as far back as 1600. Through laziness or a slight tendency to follow financially conservative advice, I've always left my stuff in the market, and it's paid off. Very few can time the market, probably count them on the fingers of one hand (warren, etc).

That's not an absolute under all circumstances, nuclear war, asteroid impact, zombie apocalypse... a major reset to global civilization could be problematic. Guess you could invest in gold and pallets of NATO 7.62.

My pop did exactly that. The cans corroded over time and we had to spoon dirt 4’ down to recover most but not all of it. Put a big tank out in the middle of a citrus grove too. Hunters made target practice of it a few months later spilling a truck load of diesel.

Give the guy some credit.

He did say everyone would be tired of so much winning.

Taylor Swift and MAGA combining powers , tickets over a $1000

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Wednesday's EIA Oil inventory report should be telling

Said it before, will say it again. This 61-day unapproved war/conflict/adventure is Stoopid with two O's. Legality aside, everyone enjoy their gas prices. Spirit is one domino. Genuinely hoping that and Jet A miss the rest.