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This is going to work until all of the sudden it doesn't.

• ajross 5mo ago
  Which is to say, it's a speculative bubble and it will burst on its own schedule and for essentially arbitrary reasons and not due to the economic fundamentals of the industries involved. Which... is something we all basically knew even before the Iran boondoggle. The market is as the market does.
  • fn-mote 5mo ago
    > … for essentially arbitrary reasons and not due to the economic fundamentals … When I think about the impact of the war on Iran, it’s pretty clearly affecting “economic fundamentals”. So what are you talking about?
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    • nsvd2 5mo ago
      They're saying that SPY is up 12% over the past month despite the Iran war. The stock market is not the economy.
  • nagaiaida 5mo ago
    decidedly off topic but since i've stumbled across you again, i'm still over here wondering what the hell you meant a couple months ago by arguing that doing bare syscalls on linux from a forth is an emulator. it was quite perplexing to be called a sovcit who was imagining some software i've written just because it was rhetorically inconvenient for you that said software existed
  • tim333 5mo ago
    The typical investor algorithm is timing the market or analysing stocks doesn't work so keep buying index funds. That can go on and on unless people run out of money to buy with.
• dzhiurgis 5mo ago
  "This time it's different"