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Anyone remember the subprime crisis?

this is going to be bigger, mostly because the leadership vaccume in the US Gov is all too happy for it to get very big before it goes bang.

The other day I was helping somebody choose some funds to invest in. The majority of "global" or "index" funds we looked into either directly or indirectly had the largest share of holdings in Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, AMD. Often these were about 50-70% of their portfolio. The returns for the past year look great but the crash is going to be devastating and widespread because so many investments link back to this bubble.

I completely withdrew from the US market last Nov 5th.

It's plainly obvious where all of this is going.

Where did you put your funds? bonds are screwed but I'm thinking gold

There are plenty of non-US index funds, like EU, UK, Japan and others. There are also indices that track smaller companies rather than just the S&P500 or Nasdaq.

Or diversify in both directions - small US, and big and small international funds.

There are other companies than the magnificent 7. Other boring companies with boring dividends and solid earnings that have nothing to do with tech. Ulta. Pepsi. Chevron. But you sound pretty smart so I’m sure you had a good reason to invest in non us markets.

I'm a non-american and I don't trust their government as a steward any longer.

I've diversified into international markets that are more resistant to the whims of a dictator and his feeble attempts at monetary policy.

Also any gains in dollar denominated assets should include the >10% haircut the USD has taken since the fascist coup.

well, this means you've missed out on everything since then, wouldn't a simple stop order have been a reasonable alternative on this?

the US dollar is down over 10% since they elected a fascist, no stop order for that.

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