Gregmal

I honestly just thought they were scared of the coronavirus and following the science?

Ha! You clearly and embarrassingly don’t….Who needs it when you fall for everything? We regularly hear how “NYT is the best we have” and the subsequent chirping of “no WSJ is the best!”…and here we have two pieces of shit with an agenda that thought they had some gotcha cuz “a SPAC went to CF for an IPO” LMFAO….I guess the editor didn’t bother checking basic stuff like yearly deal volume by institution or other basic, widely available info….ya know basic journalism stuff! Just what the doctor ordered tho! Click, click, click…

Why cares about OpenAI? There’s always been TONS of massive, profitable and private businesses out there. Not sure what that has to do with public investing

Hey sometimes the situation calls for buying boring blue chips, others it’s most advisable to flip ponzis or buy call options on shitcos, or maybe yea, occasionally ya gotta vote for a dictator….mental flexibility…

I’ll also point out, because I’m sure you guys didn’t know this, but Cantor Fitzgerald is/was basically the go to for SPACs going back probably 10-15 years. They’re the clear market leader in the space, well before the product got super popular and then fizzled out in 2021. So a SPAC looking to go public and hiring Cantor? Lolz nice gotcha

^^^ isn’t this just classic, stupid socialist thinking? The “dur let’s can something blatantly good because some rich people might benefit”? It’s pretty much the same reason NYC lost that huge Amazon HQ deal. Hate to break it to you, but the haves pretty much always benefit. Otherwise, yea, totally agree Lutnick’s firm (a financial services firm FYI) making investments in a secular theme is totally the same thing as a no experience drug addict getting a director seat on a foreign energy board…

Yup on both. We moved for a reason, largely being the environment and quality of people we want our kids to grow up around. But generally speaking, checking off the “shelter” box as early as possible is imo so crucial for so many reasons. Peace of mind, wealth building, family planning, relationship building community wise, etc. Of course, I guess the million dollar question is “are they ready?”. The 20s can be wild, 30s…everyone’s settled down by then. But generally speaking, if they’re ready…I don’t see the benefit in making them spend 5-10 years earning it….cuz….especially as I get older, I’m realizing those years and all years are pretty precious and wasting ages 25-35 running in the hamster wheel and stressing about money and student loans…not what I want for my kids nor is it what I personally worked hard for.

I definitely agree with the sentiment it’s important to teach kids in a way that is long term productive. I’ve seen both cases in regards to the instance that probably relates to most on this board. Let them work hard, and “earn it” on their own, and then of course the “do it for em” approach. If they’re good kids and have the right wiring or life skills…I’ve largely seen that the “do it for them” approach makes a far larger impact on quality of life than “letting them earn it”. That’s all I was really insinuating. Being privileged, we can in many instances buffer out the difficulties of the world for our family members. As a parent of three that is probably the position I’ll take. I’ve seen plenty of kids from good families do it the “on their own” way, and honestly, I can’t think of one who deep down, when being honest, didn’t envy their friends whom had the house and big ticket stuff taken care of a decade earlier just cuz they were lucky. It’s very meaningful in terms of alleviating the coming of age stresses and focus on “making it”. Of course “making it” is largely why we keep seeing the ages at which people settle down or start having families continue to creep back towards 40 vs traditional being the later 20s.

I mean you could also just buy them one...

Everything always seems tough when you have no experience and are entering a new phase of life. Generally though, I’ve found that when things seem the scariest, that’s when the greatest opportunities exist. And when things seem easy, they’re either about to get really hard, or, you’ve figured it out. Kids today could start by getting off their phones and paying attention to the world around them instead of envying what’s presented to them on Instagram.

Yea gold is having its once a decade run that gets the gold bugs all wet between the legs but there’s far better assets that accomplish the same thing. Sports teams, bitcoin, trophy real estate, high end collectibles/art. The theme is finally gaining traction but the thesis has pretty much worked…..forever.

Yea so I think Speks assessment is accurate. Everything always seems easier and more obvious once we already know what happened. Just like “coulda just bought an index”. So I think the answer that is always correct is that if you’re not stupid, capable of working hard, and can demonstrate some character/loyalty to your craft, you’ll do well.

That’s true. When I started out Wall Street was dead, same with housing. And getting a job as a fairly run of the mill white kid? Now in hindsight I’m told it was easy to start off when I did or I was lucky or something along those lines…so who knows. Working hard typically tends to pay off regardless

Everyone hates on it, but the coolest generation was the one that took shotguns to school and drank a beer on the way home from work. Long live Mad Men.

I mean our government up until recently gave people food stamps to buy Coke and Lays and some of the biggest inflation whining was about prices at McDonald’s lol. Our younger generations get lost in their phones and obsess over who appears to have more stuff on social media. And even those that are ambitious just sit by themselves talking into their phones to make videos. The losers are taking over.

100%. I think the fairer assessment is that they have a significantly higher quality of life today, with much lesser future certainty/security.

I generally share this view, but found this argument also somewhat persuasive https://nypost.com/2025/10/05/opinion/quit-the-whining-gen-z-youre-actually-doing-better-economically-than-boomers/

Thats also not really what I was saying. It's the same as acknowledging Monaco has a higher quality citizen than Canada, on average. In the US, we have a real problem with, IDK, call it whatever you want, Colorful shoe culture, which greatly impacts a lot of these negative categories. Ironically, the super, super high majority of the culprits, happen to be a major component of the democrat base....I mean, if the shoe fits....

Honestly, Canada has way higher quality “average” citizen than the US, and it’s not even close. That explains the difference

It’s pathetic. There’s absolutely ZERO, logical consistency or intellectual honesty with them.

LOLz....what happened to "my body, my choice"?

Or maybe it just represents what New York City is at this point.

Ironically the only time I’ve been banned here was after Biden took office and Sanjeev said no more politics…and like a day or two after he was sworn in I called Cuomo a fuckin liar and a creep. I was in the midst of my Covid adventure traveling the country with the family and during my time off found Preferred Apartment Communities at $7 a share. When I came back I posted the idea, everyone made a shit ton of money, and the rest is history.

I posted on this site the exact days that I got the first and second shots in mid 2021 because people were asking me about it. Spek was even joking about how 30 year old finance guys are getting it in NY/NJ before the elder crowds in other states…hardly some secret LMFAO we could try to recall and nitpick every post you’ve ever contributed, but you’re useless and no one cares what you have to say