JP isn't the focus of rate cuts (or not) this year.
Have no fear, there WILL be THREE rate cuts this year and starting soon. 1/2 point, 1/2 point, 3/4 point as the Hail Mary. Before Sept 15.
Those that know, know.
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JP isn't the focus of rate cuts (or not) this year.
Have no fear, there WILL be THREE rate cuts this year and starting soon. 1/2 point, 1/2 point, 3/4 point as the Hail Mary. Before Sept 15.
Those that know, know.
I hate technology stocks, more so in my retirement years ... but Meta is looking good to me. Can't get it out of my mind... but I hate technology stocks in the preserve capital stage of my life. Zuckerberg making their investors nervous but looks like a nice buy in time .. but I hate technology stocks at this stage of my life in case I didnt make that clear
Yeah - I think he would say that his life is busy. He pays attention, works every day, for a couple hours.
Then goes fishing.
His life is busy, but he works only for himself, he does not punch a clock for anyone else.
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The only time I could see margin making sense for an individual is if they really want to buy something short term but don't want to sell something else because it would cause a tax event.
Margin is south of 12% for retail - I just looked it up. Meaning you have to make a lot more than that to make it worth the risk. Also the risk free gain on T-bills right now is 5.3%. so your now at 17.3% as your minimum benchmark. If you know of a guaranteed 20% plus gain annually then you likely should just sell something else and buy it - and then let me know
Now banks can borrow at the fed window at 5.3%, so leverage makes a lot more sense for them.
Margin is south of 12% for retail - I just looked it up. Meaning you have to make a lot more than that to make it worth the risk. Also the risk free gain on T-bills right now is 5.3%. so your now at 17.3% as your minimum benchmark. If you know of a guaranteed 20% plus gain annually then you likely should just sell something else and buy it - and then let me know
Now banks can borrow at the fed window at 5.3%, so leverage makes a lot more sense for them.
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I think I would rather own APPL with a P/E of 26 than Meta with a P/E of 25.I hate technology stocks, more so in my retirement years ... but Meta is looking good to me. Can't get it out of my mind... but I hate technology stocks in the preserve capital stage of my life. Zuckerberg making their investors nervous but looks like a nice buy in time .. but I hate technology stocks at this stage of my life in case I didnt make that clear
Just pulling your chain
They both look good on paper if you want to be in that space. I personally would use technicals to find my entry point.
How do you really feel, @alarmguy ? Tech is a roller coaster, but look at the most valuable companies in the world. Dominated by tech.I hate technology stocks, more so in my retirement years ... but Meta is looking good to me. Can't get it out of my mind... but I hate technology stocks in the preserve capital stage of my life. Zuckerberg making their investors nervous but looks like a nice buy in time .. but I hate technology stocks at this stage of my life in case I didnt make that clear
Here's my old company; I got in in the later 1980's and got my options/grants in the 1990's.
You're Right... The Economy Sucks!
Statistically speaking, the economy is doing great. • Unemployment is at 3.7%. Anything below 5% unemployment is considered good. • Our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 3.3% in 2023. • The Dow Jones Industrial Average, NASDAQ, and S&P 500 are reaching new highs. • Inflation is at 3.4%. The FED...
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Its an interesting article - but its predicated on income rising by 4% while inflation has been 5% (paraphrasing) over the past 50 years.You're Right... The Economy Sucks!
Statistically speaking, the economy is doing great. • Unemployment is at 3.7%. Anything below 5% unemployment is considered good. • Our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 3.3% in 2023. • The Dow Jones Industrial Average, NASDAQ, and S&P 500 are reaching new highs. • Inflation is at 3.4%. The FED...
However no two people's inflation rates are the same.
For example, if you bought your home years ago, refinanced it a couple times during that period when rates were low, didn't have to pay for college in the last 20 or so years, invested in a 401K or other risk assets, and your employer covered your health care, your likely way ahead of the game.
If you have been renting during that time, had no or poor health insurance, and were trying to improve and educate yourself - then life has pretty much sucked.
And all things in between.
This is why you see such a divide on how people feel based both on age and also tax bracket. If your older and own risk assets, there has never been a better time to be alive. If your poor and / or just trying to get started, your hosed.
Won't end well.
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You're Right... The Economy Sucks!
Statistically speaking, the economy is doing great. • Unemployment is at 3.7%. Anything below 5% unemployment is considered good. • Our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 3.3% in 2023. • The Dow Jones Industrial Average, NASDAQ, and S&P 500 are reaching new highs. • Inflation is at 3.4%. The FED...
Great article.
“ This constant cycle of bailouts, quantitative easing, interest rate manipulation, and money printing negatively affects the ordinary family and dramatically helps financial institutions and passive investors. “
No doubt the folks with money are doing well and others are not.
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Agree, but there is also a massive amount of technology companies that went under and failed.
It’s all about risk reward. The greater the reward the more the risk.
But it’s not just technology companies. New businesses are born every day at the ground floor stock price. For every successful one there’s a number of failed ones.
Will LRC match Walmart one day?
Only time will tell, but in the retail business think of all the other retail stores that went out of business from the time, Walmart went public to today.
LRC is up 41,000% Walmart is up 286,000% if you got it at the ground floor, which includes stock splits.
Between both companies absolutely fantastic return but what about the ones that didn’t do that?
No question about it from the 1990s on technology was the way to go. I wonder if something will replace it? It’s hard to imagine something ever could.
Yeah, I have been around since the first Commodore 64 computer came out with a cassette drive. I have seen many technology companies stock shoot up to the moon and eventually the company take a nose dive and cease to exist. So maybe I’ve seen too many people burned which is a disadvantage for me
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Your in luck one of the first large regional banks failed this year and there are dozens in line with the same issue.I can loose plenty between now and the 3rd week in June.
I need a bank failure or two so I can get a deal on BAC preferreds.
Major slowdown in economy, stocks fall, unemployment up, and foreclosures are allowed to finally happen.
Interesting to see what happens in 2025 with so many broke Americans and debt bubbles popping.
Commercial real estate in big trouble and can't be ignored.
Likely going to see interest down to zero again.
The 2020 shadow bank bailouts will likely continue causing problems for the rest of this decade.
Should have bit the bullet all the way back in 2018 but Fed kept pumping the flooded car.
“ A steep price cut on a San Francisco building marks one of the starkest recent indicators of the city’s struggling office market. An empty 16-story building at 995 Market St. just sold for $6.5 million, a nearly 90% plunge from its 2016 price of $62 million. “
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