Comments by "Zach B" (@zachb1706) on "The Plain Bagel" channel.

  1. Typical government, "protecting people" by making it harder for them to invest how they want. "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help"
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  2. Oh diversity
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  3. Well 10% is pretty optimistic, doesn't include taxes, and a million in 18 years isn't going to be a lot.
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  4.  @imranarshad7302  https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bearraid.asp Here's an article on what you are referring to. It is an extremely illegal activity, and although it probably does happen - for a company like Gamestop it is unlikely to have escaped the feds. A more plausible explanaition for the large 130% is that multiple short positions are being held for the same stock. If I shoert something, the stock is then purchased straight away by another investor can then loan that stock to another investor, meaning that 1 stock has been shorted twice.
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  5. Survival of the fittest.
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  6. The US has $88 trillion
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  7. Who said there should be a solution? Inflation isn’t a bad thing
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  8. Turkeys interest rate is 8.5%. Honestly it should be around 30%. The entire economy needs to be reset, it's fucking broken. This is the time, after the earthquakes with massive foreign aid and reinvestment.
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  9. Shorting a company doesn't make them go bankrupt, bad fundamentals do. For example, gamestop is a terrilbe company that is falling behind it's digital competition.
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  10. @ possibly, but I reckon if Trump didn’t like him he wouldn’t keep letting him into meetings with world leaders. Or have obvious input on appointments like the new NASA Administrator
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  11. What?
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  12. Tesla had a 3-to-1 stock split last year.
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  13.  @imranarshad7302  They weren't trying to drive anything into the ground. They saw a bad business and pounced on the opportunity.
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  14. Banks don’t just give out loans to 1 person, the give out loans to thousands. If you average it out, all their profits and losses - that will tell you the interest rates a person should pay to ensure profits
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  15. Transactions per day is a bad figure, seeing how Bitcoin has a rather strict transaction cap. Per block only ~2600 transactions can be completed, that’s 260 transactions a minute, or just over 4 per second. Comparatively, PayPal and processes thousands of transactions per second, and thus can expand to over 20 000/s during high traffic.
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  16. “Everyone what except Greece made money from our crisis” When you start a crisis, you don’t earn money from it.
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  17.  @DimitrisVi  so it wasn’t the huge welfare state that would refuse to cut spending or raise taxes?
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  18. Very early on it explained why morgages are so appealing, because if the buyer defaults on their loan the bank gets the house. This essentially reduces the risk of the investment, so as long as housing prices stayed high enough - these investments offered little risk for the investment banks.
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  19.  @ArisHDi  No, no one did want to buy them. If people did, their price would have been higher.
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  20.  @Hyperpandas not if he sticks to economics.
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  21.  @red3d364  Social welfare programs share alot of similarities with socialism. Expensive, inefficient and poorly managed
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  22. What?
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  23. Nothing about Crypto makes sense. There's no tangible product there. It has high returns, but that is about it.
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  24. 13% of 60 year olds have no savings? Nice to see people being financially responsible
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  25. Heavily shorted companies are failing because of their fundamentals, not the short positions. Companies like gamestop that were heavily shorted are companies that are leaking money while falling behind their competition.
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  26. 0:48 Idk, poor financial habits are usually the reason medical expenses cause bankruptcy.
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  27. Loan interest rates would drop. In terms of inflation, measures like this are only taken when a currency is stagnant or in the worst case deflating.
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  28. Ok
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  29.  @r3zaful  shorting 140% of a companies stock just means that a single share has been shorted multiple times. It's not usual, but it's completely normal and honestly only leads to more risk on the shorters end (as we saw with the huge short squeeze). I see no problem with large amounts of a stock being shorted by many different investors as long as they aren't working together (there was no evidence of collusion in the GME fiasco). At the end of the day, GME is a shitty company, you should expect investors to go short on them.
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  30.  @r3zaful  Give the company a chance? If a company is successful, their share price will naturally go up. Companies dont deserve a growing share price - they have to work for it. Also, I couldn't care less if people lose their jobs. Sure, it's not desirable - but some companies fall behind and those people can be far more productive in other jobs.
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  31.  @r3zaful  how is shorting gamestop immoral? They're a crap company that sells only AAA games at a heavy markup, and offers scraps when you trade things in.
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  32. Democracy is a great system, but it’s terrible at future planning.
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  33.  @elsmaster5592  Should I listen to market experts about future sales of EVs, or some guess made by a random YouTube commenter?
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  34. Hence it being double taxed
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  35. What’s the point in investing in a government bond that makes less than inflation?
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  36. Amazon had alot better prospects for future performance, seeing as it is a tech company that revolutionised the way we shop.
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  37.  @Moocow9991703  would be tricky to pass up on a 20%+ annual return though.
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  38. Huh?
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  39. Stock buybacks exist which can preserve your ownership of a company while providing you with an income
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  40. I think it's pretty ridiculous that you can't give investment advice. Maybe the laws account for this, but if your not charging the investor money and you have a disclaimer at the start of the video - you should be able to give advice.
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  41. I would find it very hard to turn down $30k
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  42. Some might argue it. This people should not be listened to
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  43. Next year will be the Year of Elon. He has the presidents ear, and his companies are nearing their long term goals - self driving, Starship and leading the AI race
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  44.  @r2d2b3c4  FSD unsupervised is planned to launch next year, Starship is planned to deploy its first payload next year
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  45.  @TeamSprocket  why didn’t other companies just hire innovators, are they stupid?
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  46.  @SusCalvin  that’s where Musk differs. He develops things in house and favours vertical integration as much as possible
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  47. Pretty much. Any time the government tries to "protect" you, it simply means stopping you from doing things you might want to do.
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  48. Maybe a web browser
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  49. I can't stand the equity bullshit it pushes. And carbon credits are a complete scam industry
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  50. That’s naked shorting which is very illegal
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