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Melon

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

Thu Jun 4, 2026, 10:40 AM

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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 Yesterday OP

Sold my last 3 stocks. Moved money to a multigraincracker Yesterday #1

You may be right edhopper Yesterday #2

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

Trump will still be President edhopper Yesterday #22

There are no crashes anymore. Market is rigged and irrational GreatGazoo Yesterday #3

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

and yet here we are GreatGazoo Yesterday #15

Something I think a lot of folks are missing are structural changes in the market. Happy Hoosier 1 hr ago #43

Have had similar thoughts GreatGazoo 1 hr ago #44

Yeah, lots of folks specualte about that kind of stuff... Happy Hoosier 58 min ago #45

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

Yeah, that's where I am ITAL Yesterday #8

It took six years to recover edhopper Yesterday #23

Six years isn't that long for me ITAL Yesterday #24

Or get out now and edhopper 22 hrs ago #28

Preferably you are cost averaging. Melon 15 hrs ago #32

There are other investments edhopper 15 hrs ago #33

If you took your money out in 2007 edhopper 2 hrs ago #40

No it's not "just as risky". paulkienitz Yesterday #9

Ill gotten ponzy...huh? You mean investment returns. Melon Yesterday #21

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

Go read what Sam Altman is saying. Uber and Melon 16 hrs ago #31

That math doesn't math -- companies will not pay enough. paulkienitz 8 hrs ago #34

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

"Democratic." The adjective form is "Democratic." ColoringFool Yesterday #17

I could have put a hyphen in there but noun GreatGazoo Yesterday #20

No Johnny2X2X Yesterday #6

I've heard that song before. paulkienitz Yesterday #10

We've been waiting decades for a bubble Johnny2X2X Yesterday #12

Index funds are like 50% AI bubble now. paulkienitz Yesterday #14

9 years ago when I joined DU, people were saying that Bitcoin would burst and go to near zero Polybius 8 hrs ago #36

Bitcoin will either sputter on for decades, or go almost instantaneously to zero at any time -- it's not predictable. paulkienitz 8 hrs ago #37

People are predicting the market is holding on Johonny Yesterday #7

I turned some investments into a newer and larger house CanonRay Yesterday #13

I'll just keep my NVIDIA,TYVM. ColoringFool Yesterday #18

Jensen Huang is pulling sooo many circular-financing fast ones... paulkienitz Yesterday #19

Heard the same shit from Thom Hartmann a few years back Ziggy Beans Yesterday #26

That same lie was told before the last two crashes. paulkienitz 21 hrs ago #29

imho Fat gains should be pruned. Rotation is underway. bucolic_frolic Yesterday #27

Simple.... multigraincracker 19 hrs ago #30

More apropos to the current situation, index funds do the opposite. paulkienitz 7 hrs ago #38

I think that's a terrible prediction Polybius 8 hrs ago #35

"doesnt crash anymore" paulkienitz 7 hrs ago #39

Lol imagine taking investment advive from a panicked, anonymous internet poster. BannonsLiver 2 hrs ago #41

Or not Happy Hoosier 2 hrs ago #42