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fred sanford

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It may well be worth it for AI to be a bubble, pop, tank the economy just to destroy Oracle.
They deserve it just for the recent changes to their support site. It’s the most pain in the ass implementation of AI on a site ever conceived by pajeets.
 

Borzak

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Makes you wonder what sites and such they use for training the AI. Of course if they used the sites I visit often the bots would rise up and rebel.
 

Haus

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QE back already baby. Also 25BP cut

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This sounds like their positioning to know they're going to have to buy a mountain of treasuries for all those that are expiring and have to be reissued next year. It's an insane amount, I believe around 1/3rd of the entire national debt will have to be refinanced (they're even calling it the "debt maturity wall" or $10B). This is a big reason Trump has such a hard on for pushing interest rates lower, as that will affect how much the treasury will have to pay on it's re-issuance.

It's like the worst case scenario of an ARM mortgage, but on a national debt level scale.

So with that, there is probably immense pressure on the Fed to be ready to step in and soak a ton of debt issuance onto their balance sheets. Since a tepid market of buyers for our national debt would make the government have to pay more to get people to buy it. (Google "US Debt Auction" I believe).

The F-U would be if a group of large current debt holding countries (looking at China and Japan for instance) all boycotted US treasury issuance next year, but that would be tantamount to a declaration of war in the eyes of certain orange presidents.
 
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TJT

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It may well be worth it for AI to be a bubble, pop, tank the economy just to destroy Oracle.


Larry Ellison is the pinnacle geezer who can't let go. 81 years old and still an active executive. Still looking at things like he'll be around in 20 years.
 
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Larry Ellison is the pinnacle geezer who can't let go. 81 years old and still an active executive. Still looking at things like he'll be around in 20 years.

Eh, it's good if he's still looking at things like he'll be around in 20 years. The worst aged CEO's are the ones that are looking to retire in 3-5 years and don't care about the next 20.
 

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Looking at my end-of-year balancing. I'd like to move some of my ETFs out of basic cap-weighted S&P500 since theyre so overweight and I own some MAG7 straight. Really looking at taking a more defensive posture without selling out of stocks.

What's everyone's favorite alternate to SPY? Something along the lines of VTI, equal weight S&P, etc. Probably not VTI since its also so heavy MAG7, but something that makes a good core in a portfolio (50% ish of portfolio). In the past I've used VIG (dividend growth) but I also don't like that it's largest holding is Broadcom. I'd probably even consider BRK as an option, but wouldn't do 50% in one stock. Typing this out I'm leaning towards equal weight S&P500 but want to hear some other opinions.
 

Synj

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Looking at my end-of-year balancing. I'd like to move some of my ETFs out of basic cap-weighted S&P500 since theyre so overweight and I own some MAG7 straight. Really looking at taking a more defensive posture without selling out of stocks.

What's everyone's favorite alternate to SPY? Something along the lines of VTI, equal weight S&P, etc. Probably not VTI since its also so heavy MAG7, but something that makes a good core in a portfolio (50% ish of portfolio). In the past I've used VIG (dividend growth) but I also don't like that it's largest holding is Broadcom. I'd probably even consider BRK as an option, but wouldn't do 50% in one stock. Typing this out I'm leaning towards equal weight S&P500 but want to hear some other opinions.

Check VTV, Vanguard value etf. Pop in SPY or VOO and you’ll see VTV underweight in Mag7 vs SPY but overweight in financials and healthcare etc.
 

Rangoth

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RSP is the equal weight SPY I believe, always IWM too. Both of those will take a hit in a downturn/bear market though, so are you trying to lose some weight in MAG7 or looking to take a defensive/hedged posture? Those seem like potentially different things
 

Blazin

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Stonks Contest Update with 2 weeks to go, D Dalren and Soygen Soygen are the closest guesses. This is the list of people that are within 5% of current price. So any of these are in the window of could happen. Couple more trading days and could probably narrow window down to 3% up or down

Kaines7050
Flobee7000
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Hateyou6925
fris6900
Omayga6875
Soygen6750
Dalren6700
Aorin6650
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Dang, I whiffed on this one at 5500. I really expected the downturn to hit midway through the year and that we'd start hitting the lows about now.

Guess I couldn't have really foreseen the AI thing lifting the entire market.
 
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Kithani

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Dang, I whiffed on this one at 5500. I really expected the downturn to hit midway through the year and that we'd start hitting the lows about now.

Guess I couldn't have really foreseen the AI thing lifting the entire market.
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