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Melon

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21. Ill gotten ponzy...huh? You mean investment returns.

Reply to paulkienitz (Reply #9)

Thu Jun 4, 2026, 10:40 AM

10 hrs ago

I’m sure people have said that for 100 years.
You would be yelling at cars from your wagon in 1908. Yelling at the clouds today.

You can invest in others success and get a return on it or become that success and start your own business. Then sell shares but I guess then you are the head of the ponzi scheme.

You are losing money sitting in cash. You can invest and at some point make more in interest than you need to live. Then you retire.

Or work until you’re dead. Whatever.

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longshot prediction: the AI bubble gets popped this month by the SpaceX IPO, so get out NOW [View all] paulkienitz 17 hrs ago OP

Sold my last 3 stocks. Moved money to a multigraincracker 14 hrs ago #1

You may be right edhopper 14 hrs ago #2

If the Democrats win back Congress this fall I predict a stock market correction. yardwork 12 hrs ago #4

Trump will still be President edhopper 10 hrs ago #22

There are no crashes anymore. Market is rigged and irrational GreatGazoo 13 hrs ago #3

That kind of rigging can't hold forever paulkienitz 11 hrs ago #11

and yet here we are GreatGazoo 11 hrs ago #15

The issue is how many times have we been told to leave the market? Melon 12 hrs ago #5

Yeah, that's where I am ITAL 11 hrs ago #8

It took six years to recover edhopper 9 hrs ago #23

Six years isn't that long for me ITAL 9 hrs ago #24

Or get out now and edhopper 5 hrs ago #28

No it's not "just as risky". paulkienitz 11 hrs ago #9

Ill gotten ponzy...huh? You mean investment returns. Melon 10 hrs ago #21

"others success"? There is no success to profit from in AI. paulkienitz 9 hrs ago #25

WSJ and Gallup did a story looking at how Democrat voters are losing money GreatGazoo 11 hrs ago #16

"Democratic." The adjective form is "Democratic." ColoringFool 11 hrs ago #17

I could have put a hyphen in there but noun GreatGazoo 10 hrs ago #20

No Johnny2X2X 11 hrs ago #6

I've heard that song before. paulkienitz 11 hrs ago #10

We've been waiting decades for a bubble Johnny2X2X 11 hrs ago #12

Index funds are like 50% AI bubble now. paulkienitz 11 hrs ago #14

People are predicting the market is holding on Johonny 11 hrs ago #7

I turned some investments into a newer and larger house CanonRay 11 hrs ago #13

I'll just keep my NVIDIA,TYVM. ColoringFool 11 hrs ago #18

Jensen Huang is pulling sooo many circular-financing fast ones... paulkienitz 10 hrs ago #19

Heard the same shit from Thom Hartmann a few years back Ziggy Beans 9 hrs ago #26

That same lie was told before the last two crashes. paulkienitz 5 hrs ago #29

imho Fat gains should be pruned. Rotation is underway. bucolic_frolic 8 hrs ago #27

Simple.... multigraincracker 3 hrs ago #30