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gruffyhalc

The most important thing about investment money... you need to pretend it doesn't exist. You need to be able to live your life even if it goes to zero. Then you just don't look at it. Don't ask questions. Buy via automation so you don't need to look at the price. If you can last at least 10-20 years, then yes, that's investing. There's no crystal ball. There are going to be people convincing you in the news that it's WW3 and that everything ends and you need to sell everything. There's also a slim but non-zero chance of that being true. The best you can do is an educated bet.

RealHornblower

Debt to GDP is \~120%, which is the metric that matters. It was 120% at the end of WW2 as well, and between WW2 and 1981 it declined to \~30% of GDP, which included the implementation of the "Great Society" programs of Medicare/Medicaid, as well as going to the moon and several wars. The idea that the debt is an insolvable problem is simply not true. It's not even that difficult to solve if you view it as a math problem instead of like, an ideological struggle between capitalism and socialism. Like it or not, the top marginal tax rate on the very rich was 70%+ during that period of declining debt to gdp. There may be other solutions to the debt problem, but there objectively is at least one that we know works, so acting like we have no choice except dollar debasement is just not accurate. [Gross Federal Debt as Percent of Gross Domestic Product (GFDGDPA188S) | FRED | St. Louis Fed](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDGDPA188S) [Historical Highest Marginal Income Tax Rates | Tax Policy Center](https://taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-highest-marginal-income-tax-rates)

Kizzy33333

WW3 to start Feb 8 per Epstein files everyone getting out.

CivenAL

I’m new to the casino, can anyone tell me why everything is red AF but I can’t find any truly worrying news or significant catalysts that should cause it? My symbols and screeners look like WW3 broke out but I didn’t get the memo. Can someone enlighten me?

A55BAG

Did the WW3 start? 🤣

Fit_Problem_7924

And treasuries flat. Wtf? People long on WW3 hoarding tomato soup in bunkers?

vishesh_07_028

Not WW3 for sure for imminent.

Early-Vermicelli3322

WW3

Mr-uncleBerry

WW3 stock

SlickRick941

Get in on SHLD and ITA before WW3 with Iran kicks off

StarGaurdianBard

Okay. I did. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01914490.pdf Notice how the WW3 stuff isnt here? Did you seriously insist it was real and in the files and tell someone to look it up without looking it up yourself first? You must be highly regarded

PM_ME__YOUR_HOOTERS

Only you can save Iran, do the right thing and crash your account to prevent WW3

Fantastic-Vehicle880

Gabe approves of WW2.5

wrecktvf

Gabe delays WW3 confirmed

Chogo82

They could at least be kind and schedule WW3 after GTA6 release so when we stay home, we got stuff to do.

cheapshotfrenzy

WW3 starts when Tencent bombs Rockstar.

Mothy187

I personally consider myself a WW3 investor, because I'm already full port war stocks. Freudian slip for sure

TireDCDX

We got WW3 dates before GTA 6.

Mothy187

Buy puts? No dude. You buy war stocks. The bloodlust will be quenched either way one day. I already have a "WW3" portfolio so this doesn't actually change anything for me. I just know you guys are gamblin bois so I thought I'd share

forrealjeff

We get WW3 before GTA6. I cannot believe it.

Initial_Ad_9250

No, I won't allow it . No WW3 before half life 3

platinumarks

It's not "WW3 investors," it's "We need to discuss WW3, the investors want to know..."

FullstackSensei

You're both right, except trump supporters in other countries are much smaller minorities. I think where the US really stands out in fucking up is still sticking with first past the post voting despite your politicians, bureaucrats, and thinkers pushing so hard against any post WW2 European country following such a system, and cementing proportional representation across Europe and later through most democratic countries. Proportional representation is what genuinely keeps such lunatics at bay, even if they win elections, as happened when the PPV won the 2023 elections in the Netherlands. The political scene would be very different practically overnight if the American people just demanded a constitutional amendment to change the voting system. Of course, neither political party would demand such a thing...

CallsOrPutsYES

#MAYBE it’s time to rethink your strategy if it needs WW3 to happen?

ill_connects

Because of threat of Orange Man shitting his pants and forgetting to take his meds could cause WW3 at the drop of hat.

chargedcapacitor

First generation of that WW2 PTSD abuse

Internal_Field5970

boomers are hateful as fuck cuz their parents fought in WW2 and told them they were spoiled pussies 

Glam34

When i buy a stock, it gets downgraded. When i buy SPY, WW3 and tariffs. When i buy QQQ, robots are deemed obsolete.

SangerGRBY

https://preview.redd.it/ygczbvzy4ihg1.png?width=714&format=png&auto=webp&s=e64f88252ea3307299aa9d76a689c2b99593c25d What the fuck do you mean WW3 was planned for 8 Feb 2026? Please tell me this is AI.

tinim9

WW3 is just around the corner, a few weeks away. Erections will be canceled so orange man can cling to power till 2032.

Befriedfeans

So I am not apologizing for Trump as I dislike that he uses tariffs. However let me bring up something about China and other nations in the same category. The reason why we have to do tariffs for China is because they unfairly compete for nefarious reasons. They deliberately devalue their dollar, heavily subsidize their industrial capacity to entice people to buy from them. Now this seems great at first (yay cheap goods!) , however the reason we can’t have this happen is for a national security reason. One of the reasons the USA was so strong in WW2 was due to massive industrial capacity. The factories we converted to military were the reason we won. If China takes away our industrial capacity, we could not mobilize the economy for war which is their long term goal. Some tariffs are also important for diplomatic reasons albeit it’s a dangerous game such as the threat against Canada for partnering with China. It can either lead to the outcome we want or push them closer to China. However most tariffs are BS. Like we tariffed Tuvalu?what goods besides their damn .TV domain do they export?

spellbadgrammargood

Epstein files released => Trump starts WW3 as a distraction

Acolyte_of_Swole

One of the problems with all crypto, including bitcoin, is that a country could decide to outlaw it tomorrow. If it was driven underground, then the value within that country would be limited to the black market or global market, and then only for those willing to risk legal punishment. While the same thing can theoretically happen with fiat currency, it probably never would happen with gold or silver. Or food or guns. I mean, I guess during wartime there is rationing (like in WW2,) but the store of value itself isn't being made illegal. It's just that the government needs it for survival.

2lowkey

Oh so we just need WW3

gkdjsl

If you're buying calls now, you're braver than the average WW1 soldier

Jon472

Iran drone picked off = WW3

shred-i-knight

Good research on cooperative game theory (and evolutionary cgt) has existed for decades and it is extremely common knowledge that utility can increase for all players given cooperative strategies, which is born out in experimental science considering the world has achieved unseen prosperity and economic success (check poverty rates and infant mortality historically) due to one single factor being the world order established post WW2. Read a fucking book.

SangerGRBY

Oh WW3 back on the menu...

Peeeeech

WW3?

catluck

I don’t know which will be first: second Great Depression , second civil war, or WW3, but they’re all bad for tech stocks.

wulfrunian77

If the S&P could ride out WW2, the Cold War, Vietnam, the oil crisis, Gulf Wars 1 and 2, 9/11, the credit crunch, covid, and Trump Mk1, it can ride out Trump Mk2. No matter what the orange imbecile does next.

callsonreddit

Ngl SLV 1Y chart is hilarious You’d think WW3 happenedp

CumomEileen

WW and LCID if you really hate money

CumomEileen

Buying the dip on MSFT. Hopefully this will turn out better than the previous dips I have bought, namely ZM, WW, LCID and TLT

Fkn1v1mem8

Dollar pumping means equity prices decline. 🥭 says he’s going to double the stocks and housing market. He plans on crushing the dollar. WW2 inflate the national debt away scheme. Will foreign entities dump treasuries and bonds? Will 🇨🇳 become global reserve currency? Find out this week on SELL AMERICA

_bicycle_repair_man_

That's nice but I'm down 2k on gold till WW3 anyway

TrumpChildOnahole

Nothing is permanent, even Germany and Japan quickly came back economically after freaking WW2. Which is much worse than an orange guy making mean comments daily 

Glam34

How many times in the last 6 months have we went from ATH euphoria to Panic sell WW3 all within a 48 hour window?

neutralpoliticsbot

no WW3 mentions from the bears so not yet the bottom. Once they start saying complete nonsense about global financial collapse buy calls.

ZombieFrenchKisser

So what is causing this crash? 37 of current admin are involved with Epstein, Metals crash. Crypto crash, New US Fed Chairman threatening our glorious QE, shit economy and job losses, Europe and Asia exiting the US market, WW3 threats, or that Trump shat himself?

HomeMadeToast

Of all the options I hope the end comes from aliens and not something dumb like WW3 or the plague

sushilee123

What exactly is the narrative here? WW3? Recession? 🥭market? Ghyna?

sentrypetal

US was an export economy post WW2. Just incase you forgot.

ssv-serenity

I did some research out of curiosity on this. I guess they'd import horses to the Clare region and ship them down to Oklahoma for farm work since it was a new territory. Something along those lines. https://archive.ph/20150210045033/http://www.percheronhorse.org/origin/default.html Based on this article it seems like the import market tanked with WW1, unfortunately for obvious reasons.

db-2603

Hopefully no WW3

Crazy-Canuck463

Fair enough. Larger economies would just hoard physical assets, which is a large contributor to the depression of the 30s. But by no means should it be any individual nations currency. Back post WW2 they should have stuck with the plan to create a currency for international trade. The US seen the advantages of using the USD and convinced others to use the USD. And its been weponized ever since.

MrDinglehut

We were better after WW2 because they took all the rich peoples money and burned it.

jizzinmyeyes69

The 3 people stuck on an island scenario has a million different outcomes, but no matter who has what, I think it boils down to which one of them is the most cold-hearted and ruthless. Fun to discuss though haha. That is true about Bitcoin... And Bitcoin only has value when things are stable. When society collapses or WW3 breaks out people will be selling their bitcoin to buy tins of beans, or lumps of coal or gold if they can't get the first two. But dude please do show gold some more respect, because it's more than just a pretty element found within rocks... look what it can do for us when it comes to electronics, healthcare, space exploration etc. Even in this day and age of science, they still cannot make gold. Gold can only be made in outer space when stars collide... You have to admit that is pretty fucking cool

InAJar112

Maybe it will distract him from inflicting worse damage. Like WW3.

DerkleineMaulwurf

He’ll win in the end though. The first domino is already falling with the nomination of a new Fed chair to finish the USD for good. Tell me...what will people run to once there are early signs of hyperinflation and a serious erosion of trust in the dollar? For real, even if you think it will “somehow” work out, U.S. debt is already larger than economic output. A debt spiral is basically guaranteed. Markets are just nervous right now: shutdown risk, potential Iran conflict and oil price shocks, new (even more insane) tariffs, starting WW3 to distract from auctioning minors, and civil unrest because of ICE.

EKEEFE41

All this grand talk about Bitcoin he's just never materialized. * It is not a safety asset for when markets crash, shit... It mirrors the market. * It doesn't make markets and fiscal policies more disciplined. If anything it opened the doors to ETH shitcoin pump and dumps. * At the age of 54 I have come to the conclusion that we could conceivably devolve into a civil war in the US.... I never thought this was possible, I always figured people would need their diabetes medicine more than they want to get involved with social unrest. Yet here we are... If the USA falls into a mess WTF you think happens in Ukraine? Bitcoin will be useless in WW3, sell Bitcoin, buy guns. And that's why today I would like to announce the release of my new block chain project GunCoin!

CardiologistEqual336

WW3 will be a distraction from the Epstein files

ggbcdvnj

1941-2000, 59 years of history, including WW2, is cherry picking?

cowboycookie1337

I swear to god if we start WW3 to protect the president from a 🧃blackmail plot I’m gonna flip the fuck out. 2/2 SPY 695c

upwy

I will not watch any WW2 movies this weekend. hollywood only wants me to watch movies on that one war apparently.

battleship61

The issue becomes financial logistics. How do you pay such a vast military staff? Especially abroad. The collapse of almost every empire has been the tentacles are too far away and cost too much to finance. Not to mention, the USA can't fall back on agriculture or manufacturing to make up the defecit. Americas depression was 1929-1939. America didn't wnter WW2 until 1941. There's probably some pretext, but even still. The logistics then an allies' support networks a difference. The USA has made enemies of all its former allies.

DoubleFamous5751

Will never forget this comment from the daily a few years ago: “Bears wishing for WW3 to start so they can make 200 dollars”

hotleadburner

Something something US after WW2

AzenNinja

It's mainly governments, and governments don't care. As long as WW3 doesn't break out (and even then), they'll just sit on their reserves and keep their rainy day fund.

crankbird

Silver is the best conductor, but not so much so that you’d avoid using copper instead. In WW2 the manhattan project used a large amount of the silver from the us treasury to build big electromagnets for uranium enrichment, but that was because copper was in very short supply because of the war. Silver coating on the copper wire and endpoints and maybe silver zinc batteries come to a few ounces

deevee12

They actually released more files and it did not look good for fruit man He's starting WW3 this weekend isn't he

FabulousLanguage6216

Way to oversold. Unless WW3 this weekend this is extremely exaggerated

Your_Answer_Is_No

Anything to buy over the weekend as we go into WW3 and have ICE take over?

orangeyougladiator

WW3 is priced in, only direction is up

Temporary_Inner

So people are selling to get cash for WW3 to buy...? Hookers? Bottle caps? 

SangerGRBY

I think WW3 soon so people forget about Epstein files

Brokenandburnt

No one who knows anything are saying that the reserve currency status would change overnight.\ Just like everything else in finance it would take years of unwinding for governments to reduce their holdings. And as long as the US continues to export services and expensive high-tech the dollar is needed to buy it. I can't really think of a black swan that could force a catastrophic dumping of the dollar either short of a nuclear war. But all of this isn't the same as immunity. The US under Trump has proven to be a risky place for investments. The interest on the debt is getting high enough that worries are rising if it will be serviceable. Add to that there are documents published by members of the administration that openly talks about intentionally crashing the dollar to reduce the debt. Some even talks about using the threat of military force to do a soft default. Everyone has started to de-risk and hedge against the dollar, which will reduce the demand slightly. In aggregate it could alter it's status, but that's a lengthy process. But also remember that up to the end of WW2 the Pound Stirling was the reserve currency, until it suddenly wasn't.

TrainingJellyfish643

It wont be the yen, but it also doesnt have to be the dollar because everyone is going back to gold and silver lol. Pre-WW2 we didnt even have a global reserve currency, closest thing to it was the pound at only 30%. It seems that countries around the world are moving ahead with de-dollarization and that kinda opens up a whole bunch of possibilities. Frankly I think there's a likelihood we wont have a reserve currency in 20 years

high_plains_grifter_

I dunno, the British empire ended because of WW2, getting into the war straight away to defend our allies no matter the cost. America’s empire on the other hand will end because they betray their allies and they’ll dump their worthless currency

mehmilani

I always thought WW3 would be fought by robots. Looks like that has to wait until WW4.

Icy-Motor-8519

What if some random soldier in Tehran, was drunk af off his camel’s piss and shot an RPG in the air. It explodes in the air near US troops and starts WW3 by accident. Intrusive thoughts won.

CasherburyTales

My grandpappy fought WW2 so I could listen to a computer memory maker’s earnings call

10000Didgeridoos

It’s pretty obvious why: one man. You know who it is without me saying it. One guy has spent the past year intentionally changing the most powerful economy’s trade policies on an hour to hour basis as his dementia ridden brain thinks of it, blowing up every post WW2 economic and military alliance, and intentionally devaluing the dollar because he’s a fucking dumbass who didn’t get that a poorer country will never buy as much $$$ of goods from the US as the US buys from it taking advantage of the cheaper labor there. He also is actively trying to put a puppet into the fed who will lower interest rates for him back to near 0. So people are moving money out of US stocks and out of US dollars. The past year, international mid and large cap funds are up like 36% vs 16% for the S&P 500 and of course precious metals have skyrocketed. Until the lunatic at the helm is visited by three fed chair ghosts in the night, nothing about this environment is changing. It’s only going to get worse. And I didn’t even mention the ramifications of his military seizure and open discussion of seizure of other countries and their assets yet.

Brother_Obadiah

https://seekingalpha.com/news/4543343-tether-gold-holdings-latest There will be at least one more run for cryptos. I'm thinking it starts at the end of the year. BTC will be useful at the beginning of WW3 to move money around

House_Of_Thoth

You're right, it won't be WW3 unless Khamenei gets desperate... The possibility is there, but you're right, Iran would be turned to glass in about 13 minutes

jrex035

War with Iran isnt gonna be WW3, people through that term around all the time and it's ridiculous. If the US was getting into a direct shooting match with China or even Russia, that *might* fit the bill for WW3. The US could curbstomp the Iranian military on a random Sunday and be back in time to watch football. Hell, we literally bombed the hell out of them last year and no WW3

ihopethisworksfornow

Place your bets on the black swan event: 1.) A major U.S. navy vessel is sunk by a semi-submersible drone off the coast of Iran, triggering a full invasion and WW3. 2.) Mango says some wild economic shit and immediately has a heart attack and dies live on TV before he can TACO as he planned, to pump markets. 3.) Elon Musk sends an email to a Reuter’s journalist with full documentation that Tesla has been lying about sales figures since 2015 as well as FSD and robotaxi progress. The Optimus is revealed to be entirely fake, it’s Doug Jones in a robot suit. 4.) China does *something*. 5.) Aliens arrive and obliterate the city of Kuala Lumpur, then leave with no explanation.

House_Of_Thoth

Iran has mobilized it's fleet in the Hormuz and more US ships are arriving in the gulf. Expecting fireworks anytime soon and I guess people are taking profits to hedge before the weekend market's closed in case we end up in WW3 by Saturday morning

Embarrassed-Buy-3690

WW3 confirmed

SonofTroyChristKing

Those Americans in WW2 sadly died for global finance, ZOG, and Israel.

Pmike9

I wonder if they are preparing for the aftermath of WW3 by having stockpiles of a universal post-war currency.

EducationalLemon6918

Look at WW2. Germany had superior weapons but the allies won the war because we manufactured more weapons and had more men to use them. It took 3 to 4 Sherman tanks to take out a single tiger tank. I am afraid history is repeating itself, but now, the US is Germany and China is the allies. Having the most superior weapons does not guarantee a win, especially if less superior weapons can be manufactured at much greater rates.

gereffi

A lot of conspiracy nuts push gold. You see ads to sell you gold in the same places that you see ads for those survival food storage things. And in general gold is stable, but it's a stable that's significantly lower than typical stock market returns. Right now a lot of people see the government pushing it's way towards WW3, a civil war, and/or stealing/canceling/ignoring this fall's elections, so some stability isn't a terrible idea.

Proof_Duty1672

He’s gonna start WW3

DA2710

So? They should get with family and go back home. Maybe you should look up some WW2 history and compare “concentration camps” What a joke

bearhunter429

#Microsoft could announce that it found lost Nazi gold from WW2 in its basement and stock would still dump LMAO🤌

pmoO0

After WW3 you need something not made of paper or bits.

BallsOfStonk

As long as there is a MAGA controlled government, let’s say for the next 3 years, then probably $10,000. If we keep the current deficit and saying “fuck you” to every ally and country on earth, and if civil unrest continues/escalates, we will see a USD currency crisis by the end of DJT’s term that will be the greatest financial reset event since WW2, and you could see overall inflation at like 15% YoY by the end of it, along with mass unemployment. Couple that with an estimated $50T national debt in 3 years, and boom.

Fhyzikz

Ok now all I need is WW3 by tomorrow to maybe break even on my QQQ puts

A55BAG

Gold at 5420$ surely it will crash if we don't get WW3 by next week.