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philistineyesterday at 3:33 AM2 repliesview on HN

Exactly. There is this undercurrent of The End Times everywhere, that this is it. This is the end of ... everything that was. When in fact it is not the end times, and the people at those indexes want to exist longer than SpaceX.


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nothercastleyesterday at 3:18 PM

The appearance impropriety is almost always just as deferential as actual impropriety. Missing out on Gains will do a lot less damage than getting caught in a pump and dump scheme

aeternumyesterday at 3:58 AM

Index investors often believe that indexes work well because they average everything out.

The reality is something like 96% of public companies underperform treasuries.

ref: https://paretoinvestor.substack.com/p/why-96-of-stocks-are-d...