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"Worried about a bubble? Could I interest you in a ponzi instead?"

With the direct indexing products many brokerages have rolled out lately, you can now also create your own subset, superset and/or re-weighting of an index and invest in that.

I've been visiting the Vasa every few years for 3 decades and there has never been a time when museum goers were allowed onto or into the ship. I haven't been to Stockholm since th…

Perhaps there is no difference. https://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf

The people farming the healthy food are not a big enough voting bloc for this to happen.

Are trading blackout windows enforced in any way other than threat of dismissal? I don't think there's any external repercussions to trading during an applicable blackout, and trad…

With a mortgage, the side-lined young people who couldn't afford a house at 3.5% interest rate still can't afford the same house after a 10% price drop at 5.5% interest rate.

More than this, you can have the funds in your brokerage account backing cash-secured puts. I'm not sure if Robinhood allows their customer to write options, so that may not be the…

More perspective: - A year ago 1B USDT would have been more than 5% of it's market cap. - A year ago 1B USDC would have been 33% of it's market cap, today it is 2.5%. A lot of stab…

I last had this happen 4 years ago at a pharmacy that was having network issues. But now I no longer have any cards with embossed letters so the imprinting fallback would not longe…

If you think the magnetic strip looks cool, wait until you see a credit card imprinter!

I doubt that. If you're in an ATG squat, I think your desk height would need to be below your (squatted) knee height - probably well below it. I'm about 9 cm taller than dgan and d…

It doesn't really mean anything in layman's terms. It's a transparent lie: If one were to actually take it at face value it would imply that Tesla plowed $1.5B into a "store of val…

Maybe they meant to say 0.4, without any qualifier - i.e. that the rate went from 0.7-0.8 to 1.1-1.2? A change from the lower end of the old range to the higher end of the new rang…

positive earnings == profits. I am not questioning their profitability but simply pointing out that without the regulatory credits they would not be profitable. The linked earnings…

The comparison doesn't really work: Apple makes a healthy margin on their lower sales numbers and has an associated services revenue stream to boot. Tesla loses money on car sales …

> You haven't lost anything yet, as you haven't sold them. That's not how it works. The difference between a realized loss and an unrealized loss is only tax consequences. If your …

> Companies that are dependent on financing might not get financing if loud short sellers are able to change the narrative How would this scenario play out for a non-fraud and non-…

> This is... a bit surprising to me. This surprise is likely due to the power of hype in an echo chamber. Tesla has drastically lost both market share (relative decline) and sales …

> VE day was responsible for the largest outbreak because of parades and parties. VE Day was two and a half decades after the Spanish Flu pandemic.

If the postulated basis is correct and acts on a continuum, it wouldn't be a huge leap to think that doing physically challenging outdoor sports that require a high degree of react…

The list feels like the equivalent of an 80s canon that includes Rick Astley but omits Depeche Mode. The approach of taking what was most popular at the time and intersecting it wi…