Well, if you believe the stuff you have posted you have surely hedged your bets already and moved at least a sizeable amount of your investments to long-term T-bills (or your preferred safe-haven). It's an easy answer and honestly, I'd respect your post if you have gone beyond the normal age-related balancing of equities as it demonstrates that you truly belief a crash is coming.
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Krugman is a moron. Might be a touch less crazy than Olbermann.Nobel Winners have issued warnings too. Boy you are a fool. Rinse, repeat, same crap.
Meanwhile, NVDA with a beat on the top, bottom, and future lines. Sell it all Jeff! Put your money where your mouth is or just sit this one out.
Paul Krugman: Trump will bring global recession
Krugman's pessimistic view comes in the wake of a more than 800-point plunge in U.S. stock futures.www.politico.com
Whistleblower: There’s a Trans Cult Inside the NSA
An insider tells the story of the intel agency’s ideological capture.
www.city-journal.org
To be fair, I feel the market will step back the next year while the mess is sorted out
Economists are starting to worry about a serious Trump recession
Tariffs on America’s neighbours and assault on federal government will hit US economywww.telegraph.co.uk
N etc, reported 4th Quarter earnings of $ 39 Billion, above estimates !
It's pretty simple. Fire them. What are they doing in the FBI?
Of course it's a highly individual thing, but my temperament is such that I never let my short- or medium-term guesses at what the stock market might do drive my investment decisions. And that's doubly true when all the "experts" are making what amounts to politically-based prognostications. I also don't try to pick individual stocks (nor hire someone to pick individual stocks for me). I couldn't even state what my overall allocation is off the top of my head. I retired early and right before I did so I did position myself as conservatively as I'd ever been, around 60/40, since I had more than 10 years to bridge before SS, with the intent of just letting my equities allocation drift upward (hopefully) over time. That pre-retirement move appears to have been unnecessary despite getting hit with the pandemic market sag and the appearance of relatively high inflation within months of shutting off the paycheck spigot. Mostly that's because I've found that walking around tossing $50-dollar bills on the ground behind me everywhere I went wasn't necessary to fill the "void" left by shutting down a "career".
IMO, what ultimately matters most is the so-called SWAN factor. If you're not sleeping well at night because you're worried about your money, you're invested wrong.
If we just get flight logs, that means nothing.
It all means nothing if no one pays the price for what they did. I have zero confidence anyone will be charged.
Unfortunately, experience has shown that any confidence or trust in the government is misplaced until proven otherwise. On the one hand, if there are pending prosecutions, there's at least an argument to withhold some of the information (temporarily). On the other hand it's way too easy label it classified to hide it (which is technically illegal, but that doesn't prevent it). Another slant I heard is depending on who might be associated with the scandal that still wields political power, throwing it out in the open negates an amount of leverage the holders of the information have.
But I'm suspecting a bunch of sound and fury that signifies nothing. It's a big test of the DoJ and the administration writ large in terms of transparency. Will they do the right thing even if it's difficult? Not a bet I'd take, but we'll see.
