Hacker News Reader

So, uh... when is it "betting on stocks" (as in that article) and when is it "investing in stocks"?

This has a slight taste of Newspeak...

There is a joke about the irregular English conjugation of the verb "invest":

- I invest

- you trade

- they speculate

>A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.