This, this is NOT good. More important than what the Dow or S&P do today.
.
- Thread starter SoapyCy
- Start date
I know, but using what we have is all you can go by. You certainly haven't gotten a lot of sand in your undies over the last month.
That’s the problem, we don’t know anything about the short term and long term implications of this strain, and how the delay in response will affect how we come out the other side.
we lost 6 weeks where we could have been preparing. If there is such a thing as history a decade from now, we will find out the implications of the hoax talk.
why?
weren't people claiming going under 1% was bad? now it's back up. honestly help me understand.
I looked yesterday and this morning it was down some. Then the train got rolling in the last five minutes.
i took everything out of my non-retirement account. all of it. i played around shorting and gained some and lost some, but overall i went from 150k a month ago to 77k two weeks ago to 92k this afternoon. some cash withdrawals in there for sure, but i play around with it too much to be comfortable. i'm going to put in 1/12 of each fund in my preferred allocation starting next week and continue every week from then on.
Buybacks are a way to return $ to shareholders, generally considered better than issuing dividends for various reasons. It is not a terrible business practice (generally). Agree it is NOT investing in the business.
I have no problem with the gvmt getting equity in exchange for cash. If this becomes a temporary event, the USA might even make a little $ in the market.
But with Uncle Sam throwing cash around like a drunken sailor, why wouldn't anybody ask for a chunk of it?
I guess I should clarify. This could be good for the stock market only in that it will be the last resort. The bond market is much bigger than the stock markets. But it will destroy the economy with higher interest rates. Anything with debt, think real estate, companies, etc. will suddenly be worth a lot less money (even if they could be open). Interest rates should go up in recessions to a point to find an investor willing to take the risk to lend them money.
It has become a very bad way to run a business, especially when combined with management being paid so heavily in stock options. They started using the buybacks to manipulate their stock prices. The only real net buyers in the past 1.5 years were the buybacks.
https://hbr.org/2020/01/why-stock-buybacks-are-dangerous-for-the-economy
You were a supporter of these tax cuts. What did you think they were gonna do with their money?
Any Vanguard users in here? I have been unable to login for the past two days (personal investor site). Just need to get some tax numbers out of there and can't.
old Chinese proverb say...”fattest fish eat the cheapest bait”
I've been able to login. I don't like what I see but I've been able to login.
Just logged on, all good here.
(all good logging on, not so much the account balance
)