Alright guys, I have a brand new PS5, already Christmas wrapped with a bow and everything. Asking tree fiddy. Already has tag on it "from Dad", just need to mark out Jackson and apply your child's name.
Conveniently leaving out the massive speculation spike in price for Oracle, sure that is one way to look at it. Another way to look it is that the stock bottomed out at $118 in April and is at $198 right now even with this drop. Picking arbitrary dates is fun, but it's just more useful to use the one year mark as a base line, especially for non-startups.
Edit: Holy shit this kid blocked me because he knew I'd keep making him look bad. Oh, Amazon was affected by the tariffs? No shit! Never expect someone to learn when they have the ability to just run away and cry.
I'm all for giant green bull c\*cks everywhere, but it has to be based off real, sustainable growth... not this fucking circular fairy dust, while the bottom 65% are getting fucked six ways to sunday. We need to return to reality, and resume growth from more realistic valuations.
edit: My biggest sticking point is that there is pretty much zero power generation / transmission capacity being built out relative to the amount of compute, data and power draw thats being built out; we're headed for a power wall. Keep in mind that even if congress and other legislatures worked with perfect speed, you're looking at 8-12 years minimum to get a nuclear power plant from shovel in ground to powering a center, and we are doing almost nothing in that respect..., lmao solar and wind projects, even ones fucking 80% to completion are being cancelled out of spite...
[https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/openai-and-nvidias-100b-ai-plan-will-require-power-equal-to-10-nuclear-reactors/](https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/openai-and-nvidias-100b-ai-plan-will-require-power-equal-to-10-nuclear-reactors/)
[https://apnews.com/article/offshore-revolution-wind-project-stopped-trump-33214b9efb8f3f7a98c58299581bff9f](https://apnews.com/article/offshore-revolution-wind-project-stopped-trump-33214b9efb8f3f7a98c58299581bff9f)
Alright I’ll bite. But only replying once.
This isn’t how I FEeL. Stop doing strawman arguments. This is based on real events happening in the world that are eroding trust in government transparency and data. Just because you don’t like hearing doesn’t mean, and I’ll use your own words, that you get to bury your head in the sand and go “la la la” everyone is stupid besides me. Usually the most ignorant people are the most confident. Yes I’m looking at you.
So let me give some sources, I look at what’s happening:
https://itep.org/trumps-firing-of-bls-commissioner-is-part-of-larger-erosion-of-federal-data-infrastructure/
“Last week, President Trump fired the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in retaliation for publishing weak jobs numbers in the Bureau’s monthly employment report. The Trump administration rightly received criticism for spooking investors and undermining the credibility of government data for this reckless move. But this is just the latest act in a broader erosion of the federal data infrastructure.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/17/labor-statistics-chief-trump-erika-mcentarfer
““Markets have to trust the data are not manipulated,” said Erika McEntarfer, the former head of the Bureau Labor of Statistics, in her first remarks since her firing. “Firing your chief statisticians for releasing data you do not like, it has serious economic consequences.”
https://www.wsj.com/economy/bls-to-skip-october-ppi-report-cefc4ef1?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqcey7RXj_wkUhfs7FXSwcyT4I4A-WuxJtZdpazhvcbopqWTYQX5wLDLwNdOzYI%3D&gaa_ts=6939f7c6&gaa_sig=HllOqSp1KPXNJ0ti8NJIcbltHICq83gtKFAEZyjM-Mev3fQ1PK0mIOCqdGA0zIFGNIFbGbQHB5LSdSO4oSEj2g%3D%3D
“The Bureau of Labor Statistics will skip publication of its delayed report on wholesale-price inflation, and will instead roll those figures into a postponed November report to be published on Jan. 14, the agency said Monday.”
Once/IF they start indefinitely delaying data sets or if the numbers don’t roughly match private sector estimates it’s going to be a big problem.
Edit: you don’t even have your post history available, meaning you could be a Russian bot or bad actor. YOU’RE not even being transparent as a person and you expect me to believe your argument? lol get out of here. Blocking you now.
I think it’s most likely we’re just getting inflation in the 2030s.
Edit to clarify: We're moving to a bifurcated economic system. Where, monetary supply continually increases mostly captured by people closer to the top and relatively fewer people gain access to that.
So, poorer people feel like they exist in "stagflation" due to increasing unemployment and inability to realize the real economic growth that is occurring. They also become increasingly economically irrelevant, so it doesn't matter if they can still consume (or various debt and reoccurring payment methods keep them tethered).
Everyone else grapples with inflation, falling into the "stagflated state" if they can't keep and accumulate enough inflation hedged assets to pull from in order to participate in the new economy that is indeed still growing.
^ This little regard thinks we're going to dump when they just launched QE3 for $40B a month.
Edit: another little regard below me that doesn't realize credit markets showed signs of distress way before Fed began to inject liquidity and cut in 08.
Today financial conditions are very loose. There's no sign of issues at all. Spreads hella tight, lending soaring, corporate issuance smashing records. We've never had a recession without credit markets showing red flags first.
Plus there's the whole poorly understood exotic derivatives and massive systemic risk. Banks are the best capitalized and well regulated they have ever been.
Personally I’d say no. We had 3 rounds of stimulus payments after the pandemic totaling $814 billion dollars and did a student loan forgiveness program totaling $190 billion. They bankrolled this by printed 80% of US currency in circulation in 2020 and later.
Obviously we needed to do some of this for the welfare of the population, but we definitely overdid it and we are still reeling from this. Inflation is bad right now but it’s tailwind from the mismanagement we had in previous years and added pressure from this administration. I used to hate Powell but he did a pretty good job in the grand scheme of things considering how ridiculously irresponsible the government has been.
TLDR: it’s bad, but it’s been worse and we are still recovering from that plus current decisions. It’s not impossible to dig ourselves out of this despite what the doom and gloom of this sub echoes.
Edit: removed misinformation
Correct info: jumped from 44B notes in circulation in 2019 to 50B in just one year. Then another 5B over the next 5 years.
looking for non financial regard advice i'm in regret mode after selling calls too early today, but still have googl 317.50 calls expiring dec 19. sell or hold overnight
lol jpow just said it came a little quicker than expected
edit: i sold them probably too early again thanks for nothing wsb
Might have left some meat on the bone, but +36% in the gambling port today, and I'm out! Cash gang into tomorrow. Good luck all!
edit: Thank you daddy JPow. Gonna miss you buddy.