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Bitcoin Investing: A Financial Harakiri Without Precedent
When Bitcoin was introduced as a method for storing data in a decentralized way that prevents tampering or loss, it was claimed that the data it stored was financial in nature. Terms such as "electronic money" were used, and references were made to financial institutions. It was even claimed that …
We’re Building Unicoder, an AI-Powered Development Platform Seeking Early-Stage Investors
We’re currently building Unicoder an AI-powered coding platform designed to help developers build software faster and more efficiently through advanced AI assistance, automation, and intelligent development tools. We are now close to our launch stage, and the building phase is almost complete. Over the past months, we’ve been focused on …
We're several months into the Iran war - why aren't we seeing very dramatic economic impact?
Obviously there has been a disruption - fuel prices have increased fairly significantly, and major secondary products (like Urea for fertiliser) have also risen significantly. But we aren't really seeing actual shortages. Things like aviation fuel, which were posited to be something that we would quickly burn through excess capacity …
Take some out of market and buy condo?
I’m 31 and have $383k invested in stock market. I’m trying to decide if I should leave the money invested and continue contributing yearly or take 1/4 out to use for a down payment on a condo. I feel torn because both options seem to have long-term benefits and risks. …
sma unwind fidelity 100 fide
Help me UNWIND this direct index nightmare. Fidelity SMA Total Market Index I am paying 0.40 bps 350 positions (Total Index) Option 1: Get much lower fee 0.12bps but hold 2500 positions in a similar product. (Total Index) Option 2: Get a fee of 0.22 bps but hold 1000 positions. …
Question about "earned income" when it comes to having both a Roth/Traditional 401k and a Roth/Traditional IRA...
I am just starting this whole investing journey so I am trying to educate myself on these rules. A hypothetical: Let's say I only make 10,000 a year... and I put it ALL into my job's ROTH 401k as I earn the money (100% of each paycheck)... However, I also …
Wil the current situation with Iran and the SoH drive significant clean energy growth?
Seems like it would be a good long term investment anyway, but given all of the extractive energy tomfoolery and ass-grabbery with the Strait of Hormuz and the U.S. Iran on and off again war, it seems like this might help push global growth in renewables. Thoughts?
Used to have access to MS Research before leaving it, but miss it. Any ways to get access or see reports from it (paid?)
I used to be a client of Morgan Stanley Private Bank. Due to extremely low returns and highly questionable management stuff (wash trading to increase fees) I left... but damn do I miss their research portal. I know they hire their own people, but I guess that kinda of reporting, …
Which companies will benefit and offer a solution to the strain on the electrical grid caused by datacentres?
Here is an example of how its creating an issue. Canada is “closely monitoring” a new warning about the strain on North American electricity grids driven by artificial intelligence data centres, Natural Resources Canada says. This comes after the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) – an electricity watchdog for …
Patrick Boyle GameStop take (JustStop)
Patrick Boyle has an excellent finance channel (he is a professor in the London School of Economics), but in his past life he was a trader and has a sharp take on business news: [https://youtu.be/iBlu45HFruk?si=a9l\_4Oh2Q3-T-UTL](https://youtu.be/iBlu45HFruk?si=a9l_4Oh2Q3-T-UTL)