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How Sick Is the Stock Market?

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Re: How Sick Is the Stock Market?

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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I lived trough the fall of the Eastern bloc. It was a time of great opportunity there. I want one now too now when I am at proper age to take advantage of similar effects. There was no need for hiding in mountains.

I assume "take advantage of similar effects" means loot your neighbours?

There was no looting of the neighbors. There was some racketeering though. It was mostly redistribution of the previously state owned enterprises.

Re: How Sick Is the Stock Market?

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Which is sad. I really want to see the global economy devastated. It will be quite fun.

This isn't the place for trolling. From the guidelines: "Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity." Expressing joy over the suffering of others isn't civil. Lets not turn this into reddit.

But I would also say that in face to face conversation. That is not trolling - I love when markets crash. It was fun during the dot com bust, during worldcom and enron and during 2008 crash.

Then watching people do the same mistakes again ...

Re: How Sick Is the Stock Market?

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Which is sad. I really want to see the global economy devastated. It will be quite fun.

"Those with antisocial personality disorder tend to antagonize, manipulate or treat others either harshly or with callous indifference."

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/antisocial-per...

Re: How Sick Is the Stock Market?

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post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But why? Because of similar events/conditions? Because the two busts were roughly 6 years apart and it's 7 years since the last?

Because it looks to me like the stock market has a tendency to follow an exponential curve - or at least a high degree polynomial. I also believe that to a certain extent the stock market is bound to the real world and in the real world growth is currently not following an exponential/high degree polynomial curve. The tension between the two is causing an oscillation to develop which overrides the tendency for high d…

Unfortunately the system operating in the real physical world is based around human behavior, which, despite probably following some heretofore undiscovered law or algorithm, is very difficult to predict.

Re: How Sick Is the Stock Market?

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The younger you are, the less it all matters, as the trend over a decade or more will always be "up". (If not we have bigger problems.) So if you don't plan on retiring off your investments in the next 10 years, just enjoy the ride. If you do want your money in the next few years, it shouldn't be in stocks.

"(If not we have bigger problems.)"

That would be an accurate assessment of the situation. We have big problems, getting bigger.

Re: How Sick Is the Stock Market?

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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume "take advantage of similar effects" means loot your neighbours?

There was no looting of the neighbors. There was some racketeering though. It was mostly redistribution of the previously state owned enterprises.

And also sometimes the little guys getting a nice revenge on the banks. Case in point: friend bought a house at a relatively high price + mortgage, then hyperinflation happened, said friend paid off the house with one month's worth of salary.

Re: How Sick Is the Stock Market?

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The stock market is fine. It's probably the healthiest aspect of the global economy right now. All of the bad things about the stock market are because it's the only safe place for investment right now.

Re: How Sick Is the Stock Market?

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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume "take advantage of similar effects" means loot your neighbours?

There was no looting of the neighbors. There was some racketeering though. It was mostly redistribution of the previously state owned enterprises.

Are you really suggesting oligarchies are desirable? Because that was the result of much of this redistribution.

Re: How Sick Is the Stock Market?

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post #19

Which is sad. I really want to see the global economy devastated. It will be quite fun.

Hope this is sarcasm. No one really wins from a recession. Sure you may make some money if you go short at the right time, but it's still better to have moderate wealth in a rich world than be among the richest in a poor one.

> it's still better to have moderate wealth in a rich world than be among the richest in a poor one.

Source? I'm pretty sure the latter makes you much happier.

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