What's that blue thing in Morocco mean ?

Oh you’re totally right! My B.

I thought these were CVS receipts...

No I’m agreeing with him lmao, DXY to represent dollar returns is nonsensical …this are author got grilled for another chart similar to this 🤣😂

I think you could get away with a 4y graph at most? But yeah agreed, including BTC before Q417 is gonna create an undesirable disparity

Yeah, I see your point, BC was a truly epic pump n dump scam, set a whole new bar for growth and collapse.

Haha, I was wondering how those results were possible, seeing as my dollars definitely didn't appreciate in value while they were sitting in my bank account last year.

Now a days hunters, at least in America, are pretty regulated to maintain herd size. I think we learned our lesson, but I don’t know the situation outside of America

This wouldn't work because everything else would look like a flat line at the bottom compared to Bitcoin.

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It's not just the electricity grid - it's healthcare and everything else. The hospital infrastructure was only built for the tiny white minority, but now everyone must use it. You can't build a healthy country on infrastructure that was made for a small few. This can't be solved quickly.

I'm sorry but I don't agree. You cannot blame something that happened 30 years ago for something that got incredibly worse from 2016 to 2022.

Maintaining you electrical infrastructure is the bare minimum that a serious government should be able to do.

The problem I suppose is incredible corruption at every level of SA society. This is for sure linked to the Apartheid, but it cannot be used as an excuse today.

Why is Baidu not included in "other search engines"?

Not always! Tell that to Japanese investors who bought in 1989. They are still waiting for a new ATH 30+ years later.

Fucken rights bud

Ok, so you have nothing substantive to offer in a rebuttal. Just the general Trumpian-esque bullshit.

Again, this isn't "conspiracy" - at least in the way you're using it - it's all right there in Bloomberg Market articles and Investopedia entries. It's really not that difficult to understand. You simply do not own your shares if they're not directly registered with the transfer agent & company and, as such, they can be used in such a way as to harm your investment through myriad avenues, mostly from hedge fund algorithms and dubiously legal derivatives and swaps.

Seems to me Payment-for-Order-Flow being illegal in Canada, Europe, U.K, Australia, and Singapore - but legal in the U.S. - should be enough to tip someone off that something may be a little goofy, to say the least.

If anyone is interested in learning more about this in more depth, I'd recommend reading "Naked, Short, and Greedy" by S. Trimbath.

Edit: clarification

Edit2: it should be noted that FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) and the NYSE are Self-Regulatory Organizations (SROs) - "We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing!. More importantly, though, the DTCC/Cede & Co. is also an SRO and it is impossible (for "regular people" - for non-executives of the DTCC) to tell the extent of the problem (namely Failure-to-Delivers, FTDs) throughout the system because they do not provide that information. This wouldn't be a problem if they just came clean - which can, unequivocally and certainly, be done in a safe and privacy-oriented way by publishing related raw numbers that can then be cross-referenced with public information and data.

Furthermore, the SEC has made it obvious, for whatever reason, that they only fine companies pennies compared to 100s of dollars in profits - meaning these companies just see it as a cost of business and nothing to really be worried about. The regulatory capture andor corruption is palpable.

When there's talk about "wealth inequality" this and that and "rich getting richer" and "CEO pay has risen X amount while workers' wages have remained flat" - these are some of the major, key mechanisms by which that is happening.

Well rice is not grown for livestock feed.

Me too

Facebook isn't allowed but Twitter is?

And seriously whatsapp as a website is the top site for some countries?

Explain why?

I know, right? One of those times that I prefer being right than being happy

Wikipedia being the top-most site in 22 countries is a surprise for me. People are reading encyclopaedia there. Wow!!
What co-relations can we draw from this fact? like general population being more intellectual or anything else.

Not really, as someone in Europe who rarely goes to twitter, it's interesting to me to see that south hemisphere countries are all about it, I wouldn't have guessed it was still that popular in some regions of the world.

Because if you included YT (or FB), the WHOLE map would only be that.

Whereas with Reddit, Twitter and Wikipedia, clearly there are some regional differences.

All conspiracy theorists are only stating facts, so you aren't alone there. That those facts are entirely irrelevant and taken out of context is immaterial.

People have been using brokers to buy shares since the stock market began. All brokers are regulated by FINRA and the SEC. You're heavily implying that these "things to be aware of" are material, when in fact they are not. Owning shares through a broker is just as safe as doing the work to buy them yourself. It's definitely not "problematic, to say the least". Your technicalities are immaterial and you're just spreading FUD. An example of your baseless FUD that you are claiming as "fact".

>Those shares, if not in your own name, are are, very, very, very, very likely, being used against you in convoluted schemes similar to 2008 Housing Derivative Meltdown

I'm sure you'll have some "brilliant" reply with a list of some more meaningless technicalities and baseless claims like the one above, but the crux of the matter is that none of your claims mean anything. You're just noise, like all of the pundits predicting the next crash. Good investors tune out noise. Which I will now do to you.

Anyone reading this can check out /r/bogleheads if you want examples of what good investing looks like and why it's wise to ignore this type of noise.