Gregmal

Eh Ive had good investment dialogue with everyone here including @ourkid8 over the years and I think perhaps emotions are high and everyone would benefit from chilling out. There's no winners in these situations and playing a bit of devils advocate, I dont think many Americans(myself included) even if they wanted to, can fully appreciate the Middle East dynamics. American culture basically promotes the idea that there is nothing good about the Middle East, especially Iran. I have no personal experience to confirm or deny that notion, but I dont think it's fair to just basketize good vs evil.

I think @Castanzasaid it best awhile ago; that Blake has some great potential if hes willing to learn, but also has demonstrated that its also possible he'll just be an immense waste of talent who looks a gifthorse in the mouth and rides off on a cloud of arrogance.

And at what point do you admit youre wrong? Or is there honor in being one of those dudes who is wrong and strong and underperforms for a decade or two?

But see this is were some of the deranged really shine. Being flexible and able to pivot is a strength, not a weakness. It's like someone saying, Im bearish and holding puts and cash and then out of nowhere saying theyre long because an opportunity arose. These dimwits application of TDS would be "ah he lied! hes incompetent, he got suckered into being long!".... It's clear Trump thinks there's an opportunity to take advantage of Iran and if he can have Israel do it for him, he'll try and otherwise he'll assess as it progresses. I dont have any issue with that. It is what it is. Im just amazed at how obsessed so many people are with the mental fixation on Trump.

Yup, the daily comedy routine. No matter what he does, they keep "getting Trump"...I love it.

Like with other things, how many times do people get to make foolish forecasts or predictions, be wrong, and then just get right back at it? Powells been doing this now for years. This is the same guy who fails to understand that the only leg left in the CPI prints is OER....which is one of the dumbest made up metrics out there. Use of debt is irrelevant, as it's always used, a constant when investing. If it's not used profitably, it's because the investor is doing something wrong.

People claim they hate liars and then watch Jerry Powell get up there now for 2 years running making up future things to be concerned about. When they dont pan out, he just doubles, and triples down. Either a liar or dumb as a doorknob. My goodness.

People should be free to vet their own info and make conclusions themselves. I’m just largely pointing out, how with the “journalistic standards” so many use, you can literally say anything you want to and present it as what passes as fact for most people. Formula is simple…find an “expert” or “source” whom will confirm what you want to believe, quote speculation that’s inspired by an agenda, and then use the hedge words.

Pieces like the one you are referring to are prime examples of why media outlets are enemies of the people. All it takes is finding some quasi legit sounding “source” to quote or parsing what you really want to say with things like “may” or “we believe” to hedge out the accusations of outright lying, and otherwise, they can say whatever they want and peddle an agenda with no repercussions or regard for its factual merit.

Agree 100%, but in politics, sadly, none of this shit matters. Neither McCain or Romney were racists but they lost elections because they were branded and such. And made to look weak. Romney was the most qualified guy to run in my lifetime and didn't really get close. McCain was an American hero, and simply branding him the way they did was his end. Trump is a wild boar, for better or worse, and that's what it took to win. As others have said, Americans have gotten the politicians they deserve, which is not equally synonymous with "the best" leaders.

Nice. Remember this stuff was a far right conspiracy when “they” won.

Nah I think the “weak” part was taken out of context/misinterpreted. I don’t know anyone who thinks John McCain the person was weak, but John McCain the presidential candidate? Was probably the weakest candidate I’ve seen in my lifetime. He had very little appeal to the masses and was a doormat for Obama.

Nah. Hasn’t Australia gone like 40 years without one? The way every aspect of the economy seems caressed and micro managed from private sector to public, think it just entails being in a new era. Either way, most Americans wake up each morning and look to better their situation. That force, in and of itself I believe is quite powerful and underrated by many.

Yup. And yeah it’s fun quarreling with our friends on the board, but more generally, this is exactly why nothing these people say matters anymore. They’ve spent nearly a decade obsessing over something that doesn’t really matter and yet despite all the time and attention, have been totally wrong like 85% of the time and honestly haven’t even slightly been able to demonstrate even seeing things in a manner that resembles reality. Their opinions on the subject aren’t just worthless, they’re basically contras.

No need to say more, we know the general idea of what you’ll say because it all follows the same trajectory. Trump could try to cure cancer and it would be It’s a noble attempt by Trump to tackle something that probably isn’t attainable for him (Half assed opening compliment framed with an undertone of he’s sooo stupid) But the execution of the project and appointment of cut rate professionals doomed it from the start. (negatively harp on the execution of the idea, even though what is perceived to be the execution is largely made up of subjectively chosen and consistently anti Trump agenda talking points) In the end this is going to be a massive failure and waste of resources (basically make up the outcome again inspired by the same general anti Trump agenda and bash him) And again I’ve already stated my opinion on monetizing public service, but a legit question for some of you, if you could sell presumably $20 phones for $500, or really any sort of product that easily, please with a straight face tell me you wouldn’t lol. You’d be full of shit. So again your comment about demonstrating a “very poor track record” is basically just an opinion, inspired by the same old, same old.

lol yea but then if he gives @changegonnacome his wish and does nothing, my man will then “get Trump” by saying he “chickened out”…literally everything follows the same formula

Nah. Trump has demonstrated on many occasions an aversion to war. However this does seem to have some legs as far as opportunity goes. The world is safer if Iran is disarmed and we don’t have to rely on Democrats dropping pallets of cash to keep them content. And as usual, you’re micro analyzing every little thing attempting to undermine, injecting things subjectively positioned in order to claim a future conclusion that as usual coincides with the criticize Trump angle, feeding the fix to get that 3x a day “got Trump” fix.

I mean if there’s a short term way to largely solve the Iran problem, what’s the issue? Especially if it is largely another country doing the heavy lifting? Im the last person in the world who’s in favor of wars or violence, but this seems like a low risk, high reward setup. And like usual, you guys are pissing on it and undermining? Go live in Iran in you want lol

You seem to be sensational both short and long term. Im assuming that the evidence that Trump almost blew up global trade, in reference to your bond market point, relates to treasuries fluctuating back to around 2023 and 2024 levels?

Didn't you think a few % intraday fluctuation was a huge deal a couple months ago? Seems everything is a crisis, when in reality, it is not.

And they were losers to the American people. The party and the people picked their path. Some of it obviously just a response to the Obama “everything is about race” identity politics stuff. It was quite potent and really the only guy who could take it and not be affected at the polls was Trump, who is the human equivalent of a wild boar.

In theory, sure. Yet there’s zero legislation Im aware of defining anything about it. We still can’t even get them to ban stock trading.

Like I said, we’re good with this and that type of abuse, but are outraged at others…doesn’t work like that. Ban ALL of it. You wanna “serve”, then serve and do so getting absolutely zero financial or lifestyle benefit out of it. Otherwise it’s not serving.

Going from a bartender to living in a $6k a month townhome, wearing designer clothing, attending the Met Gala, flying private jets, etc….yea not benefitting from “public service”. She’s young, she’ll eventually have a Bidenesque real estate portfolio and net worth as well, likely having done nothing but “serve”….(while being totally inaccessible)

My god this stupid need to nitpick just to argue for “my team”…. Are we really going to argue someone like AOC hasn’t used her position to vastly improve her lifestyle and financial positioning? Anyway, here ya go https://www.aol.com/news/eco-warriors-aoc-bernie-sanders-195259148.html She obviously would’ve been a Met Gala invitee as well due to her great bartending skills…nothing to do with milking her public servant position!