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Hi, gang. Given that we are all Marxists, and therefore know more than the average economics PhD about the economy, I was figuring that we could make a few billion by making wise investments that pool our collective resources. Now, since we're leftists, we should pool according to ability to pay, but all the gains should be distributed on a relatively equal basis.

I would also suggest, since this is guaranteed to work, that we highly leverage our investment and focus it towards emerging socialist economies like Cuba and North Korea. This way we can work with policymakers to ensure that these economies stay on the socialist path, which has worked so well for them so far.

We've got a hedge fund manager, a development sciences expert, a junior economist (me) and many other experts that could build a strong portfolio of investment management experience.
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buy lots of greek government bonds.
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buy jenkem and no-load mutual funds
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Ill designn the webseit
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I'm in. Anything I can do, I will. Keep in mind though, I'm mostly an "ideas man." So I can help with whatever falls in that category. Thanks.
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discipline posted:

hard to pick between n korea and cuba. there's a straight shot from n korea to the factories of guangdong, sure, and refusal to work will result in your family being starved to death but emigre italians, slavs and the bicardi family are really drooling to get back to havana and have sex with some underaged girls to stimulate (heh) the tourist trade

cuba has a huge tourist industry already, it's pretty saturated, with no shortage of prostitutes. but i like your creative thinking.

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Ilmake the sewbsite.
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"Israeli heroin is currently leading all other commodities", said Mad Money's Super Stock Star Jim Cramer, "[it] has roughly a 3,000% return on investment. I'm bullish on the white horse." he further stated before pressing an assortment of random keys on an 80's electric keyboard playing airhorn samples.
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i'll update the wiki etc. etc.
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you know if we actually put together our heads and tried we'd probably be pretty good at this. but as usual the trolls ruin it for the rest of us. sigh. i guess i'll just have to waste my genius on dumb internet jokes for a few more years until you guys get your act together.
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I recommend a big-ass portfolio which is full of shorted European stocks for when Greece inevitably drags the rest of Europe down into the ground.
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Also, I think we should invest in the rape by envelopment bubble, it doesn't look to be bursting anytime soon.
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Cycloneboy posted:

Also, I think we should invest in the rape by envelopment bubble, it doesn't look to be bursting anytime soon.

i wish your gimmick would burst.

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getfiscal posted:

Cycloneboy posted:

Also, I think we should invest in the rape by envelopment bubble, it doesn't look to be bursting anytime soon.

i wish your gimmick would burst.

Oh, so discussing the serious issue of rape by envelopment is a "gimmick," but pretending to believe in capitalist nonsense isn't? Please. Please.

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Cycloneboy posted:

I recommend a big-ass portfolio which is full of shorted European stocks for when Greece inevitably drags the rest of Europe down into the ground.


after that im going to buy a snuggie and a bud light and do other things the tv has been telling me to do

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true story: i have made most of my wealth by shorting stocks. i have no idea which businesses are going to do well, but i am skilled in determining which will fail. shorting blockbuster made me 10 grand irl
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Goethestein posted:

true story: i have made most of my wealth by shorting stocks. i have no idea which businesses are going to do well, but i am skilled in determining which will fail. shorting blockbuster made me 10 grand irl

Noice. I wish I could take those kinds of risks but I'm just not that confident.

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doug henwood already does this Lol
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the Future is Binary Trading
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one word: plastics.
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If you are curious about investing then by all means experiment with it, but use cautious sums. Invest in companies you like. You will learn a lot in the process.

Personally I think keeping a Traditional IRA in your preferred broker's long-term growth index is a good idea. It's nice to contribute the max every year and receive a refund.

Keep the rest of your money in a high-yield savings account.

One should be aware that the dollar, stocks, gold, etc. may all drop in value catastrophically at any moment. This anxiety is an unavoidable reality of wealth.

If you are concerned about maximizing your earnings past that you should probably consider this image.

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Agnus_Dei posted:

If you are curious about investing then by all means experiment with it, but use cautious sums. Invest in companies you like. You will learn a lot in the process.

Personally I think keeping a Traditional IRA in your preferred broker's long-term growth index is a good idea. It's nice to contribute the max every year and receive a refund.

Keep the rest of your money in a high-yield savings account.

One should be aware that the dollar, stocks, gold, etc. may all drop in value catastrophically at any moment. This anxiety is an unavoidable reality of wealth.

If you are concerned about maximizing your earnings past that you should probably consider this image.


Honest Christian labor is being priced out atm.

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max weber sheds a tear...
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r3al story, as a child my dad gave me a few $k to learn to invest and i picked stocks based on how profitable i imagined companies to be in the short term future/reading value line as a 8yo.

i had like 600k at 14 and my dad refused to let my sell my stocks because of capital gains tax and they all went to shit when the internet bubble burst.

nowadays i occasionally wonder how trivially easy it'd be to develop some learning algorithms and let it go over historical data and let it buy/sell stocks for me like a hedge fund. and then i come post here. ~farts~
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What if we all got together and wrote collaborative erotic fiction and sold it first as an ebook then as a regular book? This is the "shades of gray model" & with as many super great writers who are really good about deadlines as we have here, I figure it's an absolute no brainer.
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guidoanselmi posted:

r3al story, as a child my dad gave me a few $k to learn to invest and i picked stocks based on how profitable i imagined companies to be in the short term future/reading value line as a 8yo.

i had like 600k at 14 and my dad refused to let my sell my stocks because of capital gains tax and they all went to shit when the internet bubble burst.

nowadays i occasionally wonder how trivially easy it'd be to develop some learning algorithms and let it go over historical data and let it buy/sell stocks for me like a hedge fund. and then i come post here. ~farts~



lol

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getfiscal posted:

you know if we actually put together our heads and tried we'd probably be pretty good at this. but as usual the trolls ruin it for the rest of us. sigh. i guess i'll just have to waste my genius on dumb internet jokes for a few more years until you guys get your act together.

i would legit be interested in a marxist investment strategies thread

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Keven posted:

What if we all got together and wrote collaborative erotic fiction and sold it first as an ebook then as a regular book? This is the "shades of gray model" & with as many super great writers who are really good about deadlines as we have here, I figure it's an absolute no brainer.

naked came the stranger

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guidoanselmi posted:

r3al story, as a child my dad gave me a few $k to learn to invest and i picked stocks based on how profitable i imagined companies to be in the short term future/reading value line as a 8yo.

i had like 600k at 14 and my dad refused to let my sell my stocks because of capital gains tax and they all went to shit when the internet bubble burst.

nowadays i occasionally wonder how trivially easy it'd be to develop some learning algorithms and let it go over historical data and let it buy/sell stocks for me like a hedge fund. and then i come post here. ~farts~



*warms hands in the radiative power of your privilege*

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Keven posted:

What if we all got together and wrote collaborative erotic fiction and sold it first as an ebook then as a regular book? This is the "shades of gray model" & with as many super great writers who are really good about deadlines as we have here, I figure it's an absolute no brainer.



"50 Shapes of Rape" by J. Jonah Chritsy & Friends

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uhh i forgot
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Goethestein posted:

true story: i have made most of my wealth by shorting stocks. i have no idea which businesses are going to do well, but i am skilled in determining which will fail. shorting blockbuster made me 10 grand irl


same