The way publications just regurgitate this stuff with no critical thought boggles my mind.
It’s mutual dependency unfortunately, and will remain that way whilst there are shareholders and investors who own the publications and seek only ongoing returns
But most of us would be better off not gambling on high risk bets like shorting NVDA.
In a game where the odds are stacked against you, the only winning move is not to play.
This is a financial advice.
(it is sage advice, but reminded me of nuclear war)
Instead of blaming others, improve yourself and your station.
Life is too short to spend it putting up road blocks. Create a new, shorter circuit path instead.
Yeah bro, just learn to code.
No capitalist conspiracy theory is needed, save the conspiracy theories for the Trumpers.
The boring staid firms like Fidelity/Vanguard have vastly superior products not designed to incentivize gambling
In general this is true. Participation is not rigged with eg VTI/ITOT and VXUS/IXUS and a long enough time horizon.
There is no case where one cannot participate - doing nothing means inflation will eat away at assets.
I have a very brutish 50/50 international/US split (was 30% international before 2024 when Trump promised to destroy the US economy and started to act on that...). Each quarterly equity vest I put more in, and realize capital "losses" while buying the near equivalent security when there is an opportunity to do so.