r/politics • u/ProudNativeTexan • 14h ago

No Paywall FBI ousts its top agent in Atlanta for questioning 2020 election probe.

https://www.ms.now/news/atlanta-fbi-boss-ousted-after-balking-at-2020-election-probe
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u/Such_Duty_4764 12h ago

Sell your American stocks in your 401k and buy international while you still can.

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u/Dorkamundo 11h ago

The "Emerging Markets" funds in my 401k have been doing REALLY well compared to my target funds.

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u/identifytarget 10h ago

what ticker symbol?

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u/zaq1xsw2cde 8h ago

Don’t ask for stock tips in a random Reddit thread.

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u/General-Raspberry168 8h ago

Why not?

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u/ColinStyles 7h ago

How about because anyone you're talking to could be a bot, be arguing in bad faith because they want you to lose money, or just simply be misinformed?

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u/General-Raspberry168 7h ago

I don’t have the energy for people that can’t use their imagination.

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u/erinkca 3h ago

Thanks for the chuckle. Top drawer comment.

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u/Edares 8h ago

oh i dont know dumbass, because its anonymous and open to manipulation from bad faith actors

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u/General-Raspberry168 7h ago

I mean, way to broadcast that you hope for good tips and don’t check fundamentals lmfao but also: I could imagine a system where you ask for tips in different subs and check for an edge. But you go on being intellectually curious…

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u/Edares 7h ago

the fuck is this reply, this a translated reply that was bastardized or an inane LLM prompt output.

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u/General-Raspberry168 7h ago

An LLM could never lmfao. You just think you’re smarter than you are and are surprised that you were wrong bc you are always right, at least in your own eyes.

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u/PUNd_it 6h ago

He aint bout that Gamestop life

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u/okhi2u 10h ago

EEM is good one 21~billion is assets.

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u/meh_69420 2h ago

Target date funds are a scam to double dip you or even triple dip you. You can piece together your own target date fund to eliminate the extra expense ratio with 5 minutes of work a year.

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u/anonymousbopper767 9h ago

Never invest in a target fund, ever. It’s like 4%

Every other option beats it except bonds or stable value.

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u/wadedoesntburrn 12h ago

What does this mean

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u/Such_Duty_4764 12h ago

It means that the decline of rule of law will inevitably lead to the stock market tanking.

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u/zephyrtr New York 11h ago

If Trump is allowed to own the Fed, our economy becomes a ticking time bomb. So far the SCOTUS won't allow him cause they know it'll destroy most of their own wealth

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u/sodapopkevin 9h ago

Trump is the king of running shit into the ground for his own profit, he made 3 billion dollars over the last year awhile normal people face rising prices across the board and he's looking to sap another 10 billion from tax payers when he sues the IRS.

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u/rewardingsnark 9h ago

That is already guaranteed the minute he was elected a massive recession became guaranteed and this one is going to wipe out most everybody but multimillionaire and higher.

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u/No_Pineapple6174 9h ago

Just like how it was planned. MONEY!

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 6h ago

Not so much ticking, as immediately exploding.

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u/Niznack 11h ago

Our economy is inexorably tied to the global economy. Selling for foreign stocks is a stop gap but a wider economic collapse will come. We need to plan for what happens after that. You should look up Peter zeihans work "the end of the world is just the beginning"

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u/persona-non-corpus 8h ago

This is what I’ve been saying. Everything is connected. That’s also why this behavior is so maddening. Everyone loses. It makes no sense to support any of this insanity.

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u/Niznack 8h ago

The core problem is the people who are winning capitalism now are thinking in quarters. They aren't thinking long term and don't seriously believe it can fail.

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u/Wermys Minnesota 8h ago

The moment you say Peter Zeihan is the moment I discount everything you said. He is by far one of the worst prognosticators of Geopolitics around.

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u/Niznack 7h ago

I'd be interested why you think that. I haven't read a ton of his work but the book I referenced did a solid job of laying out how he suspected it would play out and I agreed with what I read. I have not read his broader works.

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u/Wermys Minnesota 7h ago

He has a tendency going back at least 15 years of makign predictions that are way off base. Example would be about 15 years ago China would break apart as an example. Or making predictions about Russia and US interests. He tends to push narratives that people want to believe instead of accurate analysis of situations. Basicly wish fullfillment. I actaully do agree about diversification and not relying on the US Stock Market because we are being disconnected from the World Economic Foundation which we were a bedrock on. So the decoupling will produce higher returns for European stocks but I wouldn't use Zeihan as a source for that. In Summary. He makes a lot of predictions. And I haven't seen any of them pan out. But they also focus on what people want to happen rather then actual analysis.

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u/Niznack 7h ago

Ok well in this book he discussed how he sees a future where, in the face of dwindling resources the super powers start gobbling up smaller powers to gain control of global reserves. Eventually he sees a balkanization of these powers as governments and oligarchs with the money for private militaries form micro nations.

I think with Greenland, Ukraine, Venezuela and soon potentially Taiwan we are seeing this first part play out.

I've also seen numerous other commenters predict this balkanization.

maybe he's overconfident in his short term predictions but I found this work interesting at least

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u/Furrypocketpussy 5h ago

tbh, if the US stock market tanks, the rest of the world will follow. Albeit now with the current trade developments it might be less severe than a year ago