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What is a good index fund I can drop some money in and just leave it?
For context I am 15 and just got my first internship. I am planning on investing all 3000 I get from working over the summer, since my monthly expenses are basically me just grabbing a drink occasionally. My goal is to have put in 10k into the stock market by …
Huge market correction coming Monday?
Iran just announced they are re-closing the Strait of Hormuz, which pretty quickly halted the drop we were seeing in oil prices. MOU looking less strong now, and market was up on expectation of peace deal, now looking like a fresh spike in Brent Crude and WTI oil futures... Could …
What happens if an investment goes negative?
I want to begin investing, and so I'm doing some research on it. What happens if, say, I buy some stocks, and their value goes below what I currently have? Say I spend $200 on some, and then their value goes to 0, and then continues to lower. Do I …
Where can I find a list of stocks the US government is purchasing?
When I search all the results are what the politicians are buying. I want to know what the US government is buying directly. And a statement of what they intend to buy as well. Not news crap, it must be reported on a government website somewhere. So far the list …
Daily General Discussion and Advice Thread - June 20, 2026
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The AI bubble burst will be BLOODY (a reply to an AI post)
That AI isn’t AI at all. I hate when people call it AI - it’s like the whole redundant ‘what is God’ argument. This shit isn’t intelligent. You don’t ask someone how many “r’s” are in the word “strawberry” and it take 3 hallucinations before it finally “get it.” Nor …
Helping my friends get started with investing - what basics should I cover?
I'm a recent grad, and a lot of my friends are graduating as well. I'm looking to help them get started with investing. Nobody in my friend group works in finance, but I've spent a fair amount of time learning about personal finance and investing. I thought it would be …
Should a young person invest in stocks or real estate (rentals)?
The title pretty much sums it up. I’m 17, soon to be 18. Over the last year I’ve put around $30k into traditional stock investments from an online venture I lead. All things considered, it’s been an exciting learning experience for me. That said, the more I learn about the …
Salesforce dreamt up a Revenue Cloud. Acquiring Fin and m3ter just made that dream come true.
Not often that I get to break a paired move confirmation I can't find in analyst or media coverage, so today is just so sweet! Let me know if I missed some coverage of this anywhere else. M3ter's own blog post before the acquisition set this up describing itself as …
The market is mispricing the current geopolitical reality: The true bottleneck for the defense sector is not the US election, it is the raw material supply chain.
Everyone is currently hyper-focused on the upcoming US elections, potential administration changes, and the ongoing global conflicts. The mainstream narrative assumes that escalating geopolitical tensions automatically equal unlimited upside for top-tier defense contractors. This is a dangerous oversimplification. While defense budgets are expanding globally, the actual bottleneck is physical production …