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How should I calculate the growth of this investment?
I had one course in accounting and am struggling with doing an opportunity cost graph. The graph involves investments growing in value over 25 years. The first two are easy enough, but I'm uncertain how to handle the third one -- specifically with setting the value of the initial point …
I spent way too long building a free tool that reads California tax-auction lists and flags the parcels worth a look. No idea if it's useful. feedback wanted.
Been building this idea up for the last two months, all bootstrapped, nothing for sale. I just want to know if I built something useful or just \*something\*. The problem: California counties auction tax-defaulted property, and the "list" is usually a 1,000+ row PDF where a genuinely cheap lot and …
Need some guidance on what to pick as my bond/fixed income/market downturn hedge.
So, currently mulling over how to diversify and looking to hold 20/25% bond/fixed income to hedge things when my stocks tank. Considering the following. \# 1 - probably the favourite - Fidelity Cash W Inc, BD1RHR6. Short term money market fund. Does about 5% yearly. \# 2 - maybe some …
Record exports, record imports, and then a GDP miss 24 hours later. One of my assumptions about how these numbers fit together is wrong.
I have been running China as a single macro bet for two years, and the data sequence on July 14 and 15 broke something I thought I understood. On July 14, customs reported June exports at $412.4 billion, up 27% year over year, an all time record. Imports hit $286.8 …
A huge market correction is inevitable as cheap Chinese AI cuts support for the stock market's boom.
Chinese AI like DeepSeek are far cheaper than American AI. DeepSeek's V4 Flash model costs just 2 cents, compared with $2.75 for the same task on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, according to benchmarking site Artificial Analysis. Companies are abandoning American AI; OpenRouter estimates Chinese AI has grown from 2% of …
Daily General Discussion and Advice Thread - July 18, 2026
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