Comments by "Me, Myself and I" (@me-myself-i787) on "Wall Street Millennial" channel.

PeerTube is an option, although they don't have a recommendation algorithm so it can be hard to find stuff. Odyssee/LBRY is also an option, but their Terms of Service aren't great.
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 @jameslouizbuilds There were also income and sales targets
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 @Prolute Correction: If the government thinks so AND a federal judge agrees, and either it doesn't get appealed or the appeals court agrees.
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@WWG1WWGA Presumably the S&P 500, through an ETF such as SPY. That's the one Warren Buffet always recommends (although he recommends VOO instead of SPY, presumably because of the slightly lower expense ratio).
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Remember, investment comes with risk. When you lend out money, there's the risk you won't get it back, and that's what the interest rate compensates you for. When you buy shares in a company, there's the risk the company will start making less money and their stock price will go down as a result. They might even go bankrupt, and then you lose all the money you put in. (Unless the company gets enough money from selling all of its assets to pay all its debts and has some left over for shareholders, and even then you'll lose most of your money.) You're not entitled to compensation just because a known risk came to play out. Your stock broker won't compensate you if a stock you buy falls in value, just like how Gemini won't compensate you if the person you lend to fails to pay you back. Edit: Although, if you buy a certain company because your stock broker lies about its financials, they could be liable. Just like how Gemini could be liable because they said their loans were overcollateralised when they really weren't.
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DJT and OKLO, maybe. Probably some others I don't know about.
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Basically, whoever processes transactions fastest is rewarded with crypto.
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Whoever processes transactions fastest gets rewarded with Bitcoin.
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@TheWood005 That's not how that works. Many companies with low P/E ratios have low dividend yields, and vice-versa. Volkswagen (VOW3.DE) has a price-to-earnings ratio (stock price ÷ earnings per share) of 3.81, but the dividend yield (annual dividend ÷ stock price) is only 7.92%, not 26.25%. Berkshire Hathaway paid no dividend at all but their earnings was $96 billion last year.
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That sort of reasoning leads to enforced monopolies. "Allowing another grocery store in this area would harm the existing grocery stores!"
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 @tomlxyz And Standard Oil greatly benefited consumers.
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@DanR-kc1yt Jordan Belfort also made stock recommendations, and the stock market isn't all small-cap pump-and-dumps. There are some large-cap cryptocurrencies available, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.
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 @andrewwamusembi7027 Crashes have always historically been sudden.
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r/agedlikemilk Meta's gone up 90% since you posted this comment.
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 @DukeMadDuck Because Mike Oldfield and some other successful artists signed with Virgin Records.
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@katrinabryce That would make sense. If you buy from the manufacturer's website, they don't have to follow Amazon's returns policy, and since you can't leave verified reviews on Amazon if you don't buy through Amazon, they can ship you a lower-quality product and they know you won't be able to impact its rating.
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11:59 So you're assuming what his strategy was, and then criticising the strategy.
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Or the professionals are asking for too much in exchange for the funding.
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He said in the video. They used a diesel truck and pretended it was one of their hydrogen trucks.
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0:30 So they turned down $6 billion in favour of $13 billion. Sounds like they did well.
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 @Editnamehere Warren Buffet's company, Berkshire Hathaway, doesn't pay a dividend.
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I'd say keep DRIP on and keep your money in VT, but as time passes, sell some of your stocks and put the money into TLT. Then, when the market crashes, sell your TLT holdings for a profit and put your money back into VT. TLT appreciates during a crash.
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Dating apps are difficult to monetise because the only people who are willing to pay for a dating app are those who can't find a partner anywhere else, so if a dating app costs money, the only people on there will be not very good partners, so the app won't do well, but if it has optional paid features, then using those paid features would be a red flag. Advertising is an option, and could potentially work, although some people might find it tacky. I think the best option is data collection. The app could gather information about what sort of people you are attracted to and your interests, and then use that information in adverts across the Internet. This would work best if it was owned by a company such as Meta or Alphabet. That way, there wouldn't be the incentive to keep people single, because these apps could easily funnel their users to one of the company's other social media platforms. And the data collected could be used to target ads throughout the network. Plus, if you fine a partner on a certain app, that could increase your goodwill towards the creators of the app. Plus, they could sneak in some adverts for romantic experiences, such as high-end restaurants, package holidays, theme parks, soft play or water parks. These adverts could be highly-profitable. It doesn't take much creativity to figure out how to monetise a dating app whilst avoiding conflicts of interest. And you could charge for some features, such as end-to-end encryption, or larger file transfers.
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If a company is overvalued, don't buy it. However, you also shouldn't necessarily short it, because it could remain overvalued for longer than you expect. Also, a company can be a pyramid scheme and still be very profitable. They're screwing over their distributors, not their shareholders. Also, it's not illegal to sell products to distributors even if they're not worth that much.
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Apple has less than 50% market share. They're nowhere near a monopoly.
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@user-nm9qd6bo6h And pay millions of dollars when you get sued. You probably haven't been sued yet, but that's because these companies know that the longer they wait before suing you, the more content you'll pirate and the more you'll have to pay when they sue you. It's like that Target store which let a woman get away with theft until she passed the threshold for petty theft to turn into grand theft.
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Marathon Digital made money last year.
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Quite likely. That's why you should store your crypto in your own wallet rather than Coinbase's wallet.
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Lots of businesses have flat income - ExxonMobil is one example. Because the earnings are flat, those businesses are priced lower relative to their earnings (a business growing 20% per year will often have a P/E of 30 whilst a flat business will have a P/E of 15), so that way you get the same return you would with a growing company. Problem is, if a growing company stops growing, it will still be priced like a growth company in the short-term, and when it becomes clear it's not growing, the price will fall to that of a stable company (no-one is willing to pay 30x earnings for a flat company), and shareholders will lose a lot of money.
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It's got a P/E ratio of 71.52, which is higher than Nvidia and TSMC, and way higher than Comcast. Investors are confident. I'm not. Although they are less leveraged than Comcast. But more leveraged than TSMC and Nvidia.
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Yeah, obviously. They would put their own money in. But then, after that, they would still sell the stock pick. After all, why make money when you could make more money? Selling stock picks isn't necessarily a scam.
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They're publicly-traded companies with separate stock tickers and separate investors. They used to be connected but they split up a long time ago. Also, BlackRock doesn't invest in real estate, and Blackstone doesn't invest much in real estate. Blackstone's main investments are Lego and Merlin Entertainment (owners of Alton Towers, Thorpe Park, Chessington: World of Adventures, Heide Park, GardaLand, all the Legoland parks, and probably some others I've forgotten about). Meanwhile, BlackRock is mainly known for their iShares ETFs, which have a much better website than most other ETF providers such as Vanguard but BlackRock has slightly higher fees, which is how they (but still much lower than the fees for actively-managed funds). These ETFs passively invest based on a number of factors. Their main ETFs invest based solely on how big the company is, but some others invest based on how well companies performed in the past, based on their return-on-equity, or based on their price-to-earnings ratio. iShares allows investors to choose how their money is invested without the hassle of buying individual shares. The main companies which are buying up single-family homes are Invitation Homes (INVH) and American Homes 4 Rent (AMH), both of which own tiny fractions of the total housing supply.
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@sblijheid Nvidia does actively try to weed out the competition. Whilst AMD is constantly developing open standards such as FreeSync and ROCm, Nvidia uses proprietary solutions such as GSync and CUDA, and makes it illegal for competitors to use them, so once you build on Nvidia technologies, you can't easily switch away.
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Investing is easy. Just put all your money into ACWI (iShares MSCI All-Countries World Index ETF). They automatically invest in 3,000 companies worldwide, allocating funds based on how big the company is. That's the safest option. Or, you could put your money in IWQU.L. (iShares MSCI World Quality Factor ETF) They invest in companies which get a good return on the money they put in, have stable earnings, and have low debt. It has historically outperformed compared with the ACWI, but it invests in fewer companies and only invests in developed countries, so it's slightly riskier. But they still invest in over 200 companies, so it's still a very safe investment. Or, you could put your money into BRK-B (Berkshire Hathaway) and let Warren Buffet manage it for you. He has beaten the market consistently. But he is getting older and he isn't as sharp as he used to be, so he might not make the best decisions in the future. Plus, Berkshire Hathaway has a lot of debt. As a result, it's not as safe as the other investments on my list. Or, you could invest into Pershing Square Holdings. They have had exceptional returns over the past 5 years, but no-one knows what they're invested in, and they're not covered by American securities exchange laws, so they're riskier than the other options I talked about. All these private fund managers have done poorly because they have used riskier strategies in an attempt to beat the market and justify their high costs.
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Tesla is the only EV manufacturer which is making money. Except potentially Volkswagen and some other car companies, but they make a wide variety of vehicles so no-one knows whether their EV division makes money.
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 @robertm3951 Because they sell their own products. They're a luxury brand, not a retail company. Selling other people's products doesn't make much money.
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@ahndeux On the other hand, when buying a house, you will have to cover any unexpected expenses, whereas when renting, the landlord will cover those expenses and if he doesn't, you can easily move somewhere else.
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@ThatGuy-bz2in Gold's practical uses make up a tiny portion of the demand. Most is used for jewellery and as an investment, and both uses are vulnerable as people stop spending money on luxury goods and realise precious metals aren't good investments. Stocks are way better.
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@PEIAdWords They could also compete on data-transfer speeds. People are usually willing to pay more for full fibre compared with copper cables. But that would cost them a lot of money. But also, if everyone started using mobile data, there would be tons of interference, so mobile carriers would raise their prices to reduce demand. Broadband is still needed for the majority of internet access.
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Neither is the US dollar. Most people keep their reserves in the stock market these days and only exchange for cash when they want to buy something. And crypto will probably take the role of the thing which people use to buy stuff in the future because it's more convenient and secure than cash.
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@whitejodeci8926 "Backed by nations" What happens if businesses refuse to accept the US dollar, or charge too much for it? The US government won't be able to do anything. Except military intervention, but that would cause more problems than it solves. I think money is for spending, and wealth should be stored in the stock market, where it's backed by real, tangible stuff. And crypto excels at decentralised, secure, transparent transactions.
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