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chkdsk

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    Comment #17991566

    Yahoo finance was the original finance site where your parents used to look up stock quotes for Nokia and Pets.com during the original tech bubble.

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    Comment #17966112

    So you believe taxi drivers never need to use taxis?

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    Comment #17829617

    Only when the outrage gets loud enough to affect their chances for reelection (which happens with a lot of issues, just not this one). Unfortunately, Hackernews seems to be the onl…

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    Comment #17828832

    This is the main issue that both the right wing gold bugs and left wing crypto anarchists don't seem to understand: Steady modest inflation is a good thing. If there was no inflati…

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    Comment #17822723

    Certainly, the networking and prestige of being involved in that deal has value. But personally I'd still be disappointed having to stay up preparing a deck until 4am that ultimate…

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    Comment #17822399

    There literally are no similarities between what you described and the original topic. There was no exponential growth or betting or downsides here. The Jr. bankers billed a metric…

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    Comment #17820815

    Those are both problems that have nothing to do with currency or the economic concept of 'currency devaluation.' Inflation has barely been present in the US for the last 10 years c…

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    Comment #17820566

    Odd you would think that, considering the US dollar is extremely strong right now relative to other global currencies and has been for the last 5 years (save for last year). I'd lo…

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    Comment #17816670

    You absolutely can backtest VTI. We have reliable historical market data of the total US stock market (what VTI is) going back to the late-1800s. Also, please tell me 1 of those be…

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    Comment #17816621

    As of October last year Index Fund investors still represented less than 18% of the global stock market: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-funds-blackrock-passive/l... I'd hardly …

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    Comment #17814482

    If you ever find yourself questioning the validity of all the studies indicating how terrible retail investors are at investing...read r/wallstreetbets and realize you and your ind…

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    Comment #17814425

    Not sure why you're being downvoted. None of these assertions are wrong. I have many family members who still have big company pensions from back in the day and also own target dat…

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    Comment #17761693

    The reason value works isn't just behavioral mispricing. Numerous academic studies have shown there is an inherent risk component driving the persistently larger returns found in "…