Investing Thread

[Hards Alumni]

The train is barreling down the tracks and the billionaires keep stoking the boilers and calling for more speed.

Nothing Stops This Train!

[Shaka Shart]

Why would that happen?

You can continue to support the 5% who destroy the environment and care not one bit about your precious animals or get on the right side of history.

Instead, you'll support the very ones who would stuff a manatee into a dumpster fire if meant making a nickel.

The proletariat sees you, Muggsy

That's not a very good way to cook a manatee. Manatees have a majestic rich flavor that is much better enjoyed cooked low and slow until the ample fat renders.

They're too stupid to feel pain (like lobsters) so no need to feel bad

[Uncle Rico]

That's not a very good way to cook a manatee. Manatees have a majestic rich flavor that is much better enjoyed cooked low and slow until the ample fat renders.

They're too stupid to feel pain (like lobsters) so no need to feel bad

If it were up to Muggsy, we'd all support manatee killers like his chosen leaders

[Pakuni]

As a wise friend said a couple weeks ago, once SpaceX employees are free to sell off company stock, there'll be more dumping than a cyclospora outbreak.

[forgetful]

As a wise friend said a couple weeks ago, once SpaceX employees are free to sell off company stock, there'll be more dumping than a cyclospora outbreak.

Down 13% today. Wonder how much it will drop tomorrow and Friday after shares unlock.

[Shaka Shart]

As a wise friend said a couple weeks ago, once SpaceX employees are free to sell off company stock, there'll be more dumping than a cyclospora outbreak.

More dumping than a dentist office of employees who shave their head for cancer awareness?

[TallTitan34]

The woke mob already came into my home and removed my gas stove and lawnmower, all while forcibly injecting my children with experimental vaccines.
And now they want Thanksgiving, too? Ugh.

Woke mob also coming for a thing called gasoline.

https://x.com/atrupar/status/2085121411681587229?s=46

[Uncle Rico]

Woke mob also coming for a thing called gasoline.

https://x.com/atrupar/status/2085121411681587229?s=46

There's no stopping these monsters.  This is like Cambodia in 1976

[MuggsyB]

Happy National Oyster Day. 

[forgetful]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/business/bessent-wage-gap.html

Good news, the K-shaped economy is over and the poor are outperforming the rich in wage growth.

Well, at least in words. Damn the data, it lies anyway.

[Uncle Rico]

Corporate earnings propped up by tariff refunds?

🤔

https://bsky.app/profile/carlquintanilla.bsky.social/post/3msih4vtqs22u

Savings being passed along to the consumer, I assume

[jesmu84]

https://x.com/i/status/2085128046626095610

[TSmith34, Inc.]

"The greatest economy in the history of the world is on the horizon."

Jobs

July -23,000
June revised down from 57,000 to 20,000
May revised down 123,000 to 63,000

Net +80,000 for the entire quarter

Oooofff.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

"The greatest economy in the history of the world is on the horizon."

Jobs

July -23,000
June revised down from 57,000 to 20,000
May revised down 123,000 to 63,000

Net +80,000 for the entire quarter

Oooofff.

This winning is incredible.

[Uncle Rico]

"The greatest economy in the history of the world is on the horizon."

Jobs

July -23,000
June revised down from 57,000 to 20,000
May revised down 123,000 to 63,000

Net +80,000 for the entire quarter

Oooofff.

We get it.  You want AOC and the Khmer Rouge to kill all white people

[Uncle Rico]

This winning is incredible.

At least lettuce isn't giving everyone DIARHHEA

[Pakuni]

Huh.

[MU82]

Aside from the top 10-20%, the economy is a dumpster fire. Job losses, little hiring, inflation, lower real wages, meh GDP.

But for billionaires and multimillionaires who hold most stock and who have gotten bigly tax breaks, things are lovely.

EDIT: One stock I (unfortunately) own a little of is animal-health company Zoetis (ZTS), which is getting punished today for a weak earnings report - another in a series of rough quarters. Non-wealthy folks are not getting routine vet checks, heartworm meds, anti-tick meds, etc, for their pets. Plus, the company has had to offer discounts. It's an example of a quieter measure of the economy's weakness.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Huh.

Canadian friends of the family keep trying to get my wife and I to move to Canada.

[Uncle Rico]

Canadian friends of the family keep trying to get my wife and I to move to Canada.

Why?  It's like China during the Cultural Revolution with its socialistic ways

[MU82]

President Donald Trump is being sued in a New York court by two media organizations, alleging his Truth API platform to sell preferred access to posts on his Truth Social platform is "extraordinary, corrupt, and unconstitutional."

https://seekingalpha.com/news/4631676-president-trump-sued-over-early-access-to-truth-social-posts

[MU82]

The Trump administration is moving forward with a plan to scale back scrutiny of the shadowy shell companies that criminals use to launder money and traffic drugs.

The initiative follows a yearslong campaign by lobbying groups, which contended that new financial reporting requirements were too onerous for businesses.

The Treasury Department said late on Tuesday that it was permanently halting the collection of data about the ownership of private American companies that was required as part of the 2021 Corporate Transparency Act. The law, which passed with bipartisan support, was intended to prevent the illicit use of shell companies by giving law enforcement agencies access to information about their ownership structures.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

The Trump administration is moving forward with a plan to scale back scrutiny of the shadowy shell companies that criminals use to launder money and traffic drugs.

The initiative follows a yearslong campaign by lobbying groups, which contended that new financial reporting requirements were too onerous for businesses.

The Treasury Department said late on Tuesday that it was permanently halting the collection of data about the ownership of private American companies that was required as part of the 2021 Corporate Transparency Act. The law, which passed with bipartisan support, was intended to prevent the illicit use of shell companies by giving law enforcement agencies access to information about their ownership structures.

This will end well.

[Uncle Rico]

This will end well.

Well, with a bailout, aka, socialism

[TSmith34, Inc.]

The Trump administration is moving forward with a plan to scale back scrutiny of the shadowy shell companies that criminals use to launder money and traffic drugs.

The initiative follows a yearslong campaign by lobbying groups, which contended that new financial reporting requirements were too onerous for businesses.

The Treasury Department said late on Tuesday that it was permanently halting the collection of data about the ownership of private American companies that was required as part of the 2021 Corporate Transparency Act. The law, which passed with bipartisan support, was intended to prevent the illicit use of shell companies by giving law enforcement agencies access to information about their ownership structures.

300 bank accounts closed for suspected money laundering. Wants to scale back scrutiny of potential money laundering.

Checks out.