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My strategy is much different than yours (it should be at this point). It's very aggressive right now. I might dial it back in 6-12 months, but for now it's accumulating at a clip that amazes me. My main fund did 32 percent, in Q1 alone. We know that's not sustainable.

My strategy is much different than yours (it should be at this point). It's very aggressive right now. I might dial it back in 6-12 months, but for now it's accumulating at a clip that amazes me. My main fund did 32 percent, in Q1 alone. We know that's not sustainable.

Money I may need in a year goes into that 2.2% fund.  Money I may need in 2-3 years gets more aggressive, and so on.
Funds I expected to need to pay taxes would go into a very safe fund with a low return.  Some of my retirement is in pretty aggressive stocks because I don't "care" if the market tanks in 2-5 years.

Money I may need in a year goes into that 2.2% fund.  Money I may need in 2-3 years gets more aggressive, and so on.
Funds I expected to need to pay taxes would go into a very safe fund with a low return.  Some of my retirement is in pretty aggressive stocks because I don't "care" if the market tanks in 2-5 years.

Yeah, I don't have this because I'm still working. I'm working on that last part though. 

Got about 3" of snow on the3 ground right now. Just another kick to the nuts as winter hangs on, like the bitch she is.

Economic indicators remain solid on most counts. Most money lost in the market is driven by emotion. You can't lose unless you pull out. Christmas Eve was a stupid event. We saw what happened on the 26th - two days later. If you pulled out based on emotion on Christmas Eve, you lost a lot of money.

Does Tesla have the capital necessary to acquire maxwell?

yes they do, they've got $3+ billion in cash, but they aren't spending any capital to close that deal. it's a $218 million stock deal that's really only costing Tesla $149 million because as soon as the deal closes they'll get access to Maxwell's $69 million cash balance. Great f'ing deal for Tesla.

Economic indicators remain solid on most counts. Most money lost in the market is driven by emotion. You can't lose unless you pull out. Christmas Eve was a stupid event. We saw what happened on the 26th - two days later. If you pulled out based on emotion on Christmas Eve, you lost a lot of money.

Stock market =/= the economy. Central banks across the globe have been propping up the stock markets. And who owns most of that stock and reaps the benefits? In the US, the Top .01 own about 17%, the next 0.9% about 35%, and the next 9% about 43%. Most of the people in this country and really struggling taking on more and more debt just go get by.
After the Great Recession the fed pumped trillions into the system and there was no inflation. None. How does that even work?

We don't make or manufacture jack shit here anymore. That's how real wealth and value generation is created. Now it's all playing games with money and bullshit. Before the great kaboom in 2007-2008, the financial sector accounted for over 40% of all Corporate profit. Over 40%. In the 1980s it was only 16% and in the 1960s when this country was truly the greatest country on earth and was manufacturing just about everything under the sun- it wasn't even 10%. It's a low-employee, unproductive, inefficient sector that for some reason generates enormous guaranteed profits and gets bail outs whenever they get in trouble.

And let's not forget corporations taking on massive debt for stock buybacks to boost share prices to pump the market up as well. There's a corporate debt bubble looming out there that could just pop and send the market crashing and the US into another recession.

It's coming. Who the hell knows when and what triggers it is any ones guess.