Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Ben Felix" channel.

  1. They're better off staying away from stocks as their home countries are net receivers of investments and they're often undeveloped for a reason (namely crime). They're better off with real-world investment (getting common job skills for instance).
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  2. People like lying about public trust
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  3. No, it's that politics have nothing to do with the economy. You ever notice the Fed is an independent entity for the exact reason so idiots who got elected CAN'T mess with it?
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  4. Yes, SOMEONE did. That someone is indeally a computer or insider with better access to information and the superior returns are usually only enough to give the market maker a fair sallary for hours put in. But that's a perfect world, in the real world greed drives speculation and thus a lot of the people doing this are effectively donating money to the market, meaning while these guys SHOULD get a small superior return, most of them do not.
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  5. Since the stock market got democratized, obviously a new market had to be created exclusively for rich chumps.
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  6. BRICS is already defunct
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  7. There's a lot of "bad" large caps. For instance, Boeing saw major mismanagement and faced huge fines, but a lot of investors not only refuse to look at Boeing but any ETF containing Boeing. But you must member, someone must have bought Boeing for under 80 bucks a share in 2020 when it had been north of 300 a year before, and made a tidy profit when all the hate and covid died down.
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  8. How much did you lose?
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  9. Yes, be we also want money
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  10. Cards are king these days
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  11. Is that a joke?
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  12. @simo91554  if it isn't it's fraud
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  13. Dear Mr. Felix I hear that in "risk-parity funds" they compose mostly in safe stocks and junk bonds because ultimately there really should be little distinction in the returns of both. Not that I recommend these funds, but it's that there's no particular reason to think only safe bonds are investible.
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  14. You would still be better off in short term bonds
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  15.  @dietbajablast5790  Or you become a known liar
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  16. The misconception comes from territorial men who want a sovereign kingdom to rule
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  17. If that ETF exists, it's got fraud in the name
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  18. Except Europe doesn't have a growing population like most new developed nations.
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  19. That's not significantly different enough from SPY to make any argument.
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  20. In hindsight, it appears that Chinese stocks reflect economics more than their GDP numbers.
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  21. If bonds do not interest you, then real world investments are good. I.E. Renovate your oversized garage into an apartment to rent out. @RabianskiT 
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  22.  @pastramiking  But that would require you to know ahead of time that Berkshire would outperform when not even Warren knows that
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  23. What?
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  24. ​@mere_cat and yet, bonds offer better returns for the same amount of risk.
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  25. Th S&P is so big it's argued to be globally diversified and it's the benchmark active managers can't beat
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  26. Except it doesn't matter what assets can be arbitraged. I.E. If the Feds buy their own bonds driving down the price, computers owned by banks will bid up the price of all other bonds because they can borrow at the new lower rate instantly and buy those bonds. Stocks and bonds are similarly connected since a risky bond and a safe stock have the same return so if they deviate a computer will short one and buy the other. Even individual stocks are like this, because if for some reason the Feds bought all the stocks of one company, a computer will simply short that stock and buy up everything else as hedge. This is why everything simply went up at once during quant easing
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  27. Caveat: These are individual losses in zero sum games. All that money lost is money earned by passive market makers.
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  28. It is.
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  29. Very ponzi.
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  30. You hold it to prove how rich you are.
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  31. You don't need a lot of active managers and the fewer of them there are the more profitable it becomes. But since that industry can make men rich quick, it's full of enough amateurs and ponzi schemes that there is no money in it at all.
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  32. It literally isn't
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  33. Real estate is the best asset class in a booming population, but it will turn into just a safe investment when construction booms abruptly end.
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  34. They basically all have always done it, people only noticed when Robinhood started doing it.
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  35. The illiquidity of real estate hides the risk because you can't realize a loss until sale or default, while with margin you see exactly how far things must fall to lose. It's a slow burn high-risk versus immediate risk
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  36. Is that your way of saying you have no idea how that works?
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  37. Same rules apply.
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  38. Gold is the delusional inflation hedge because we left the gold standard during a period of high inflation. Idiots deluded themselves into thinking gold represented real value while the Fed wouldn't even try keeping the dollar stable.
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  39.  @kimappreciateslife  why would we give a frick what he thinks?
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  40. That's not what most people call cash equivalents.
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  41. I meant like high yield savings accounts and similar assets @robertwright8844 
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  42. Get drafted.
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  43. I think Mr. Zuckerberg just got bored managing Facebook.
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  44. TIPS have expected inflation priced in
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  45. The time to own that was BEFORE war starts, not after.
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  46. You're collect t-bill like interest with bank like risk. Do you really need that liquidity?
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  47.  @theadvocate4698  you lose
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  48.  @reginwill  T-bills have better returns
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  49. Or they actually spend very little of the money because they own everything they need outright and still work a little to stay active. A lot of old people pay more to the doctor than anyone else
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  50. Share price doesn't equal company success
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