jsasker007
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Markets are trying to bounce back. SBF IS SOL if anyone saw him found guilty on all 7 counts of FTX scam.
Your right. Between the war in Ukraine, Israel, potentially Taiwan,(not to mention here at home) we got lots of problems with such governments as Iran, Russia, China and ??? We get sucked more and more into these situations. Not good.....in too many ways...we have made this bed by our constant meddling in other countries ways......over many decades.Which war are they concerned about? Hard to keep track of all the shiny objects the government is waving around lately. I guess somewhere there's a huge problem with Jews being targeted and discriminated against now. Like I said, hard to keep track anymore.
Vietnam comes to mind.
Our government putting our troops in harms way for something we should stay out of in my opinion. Also, if we are going to fight a war we might as well go ahead and win the fight. Can't just let the government play games with our enlisted people's lives. jmoWhat do you mean?
Our government putting our troops in harms way for something we should stay out of in my opinion. Also, if we are going to fight a war we might as well go ahead and win the fight. Can't just let the government play games with our enlisted people's lives. jmo
. If a big war starts - kiss all of our savings & investments goodbye.
U.S. stocks saw some wild swings during World War II. However, from the beginning of the war in 1939 to its eventual end in 1945, the Dow Jones gained almost 50 percent.
Small talk in some circles is we are destined for war right now to combat inflation and interest rates. Sadly, is the next war we are part of will be / become WW3 IMHO.
If the advice of a decorated general would have been taken after WWI the issue in Israel would have been non existent.Just a thought here ..... back when Hitler was on the move in Europe, many countries around the world thought, "let's stay out of it, including England in the early stages. But when the world saw that Hitler and the Nazi's were not stopping, and was bent on taking all of Europe, it was almost too late for freedom to take a stand. Mussolini was allied with Hitler, and then Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Churchill in England knew early-on that all of Europe was in danger, and asked the U.S. to send armament & supplies. The "lend / lease" program was started, and the U.S sent arms & supplies to England to keep them in the fight. It became apparent that sending arms wasn't enough to stop Hitler, so the U.S. had to get involved - and it was a tough fight even with all the allies.
Lesson ..... when a world power is getting aggressive and taking ground by force, the rest of the world better step up and punch the aggressor in the mouth and stop the threat early - before everyone gets killed or imprisoned like in the concentration camps, gulags, etc. Evil still exists, and it wants to destroy freedom & democracy. Russia, China, Iran, and a number of terror groups are today's villains. If a big war starts - kiss all of our savings & investments goodbye.
It's a very different, interconnected, global economy today. Back then, the U.S. was the main player on the world business stage. Not so today. Many "American" businesses left for other shores since the 1980's and took their technology with them. The Chinese didn't sit on their hands when cutting-edge U.S. tech was sitting right in their country. Our factories there taught them how to compete with us, how to engineer things - all for the next-to-free labor there, ruled by an authoritarian dictatorship. Anyone think the Chinese didn't steal our engineering & tool-making out of those "American" factories?? The many other countries followed suit, moved to China for the cheap labor.U.S. stocks saw some wild swings during World War II. However, from the beginning of the war in 1939 to its eventual end in 1945, the Dow Jones gained almost 50 percent.
Just wondering here ....This isn't lend, lease. It's give too much and then give a lot more. All while downgrading the quality of the lives of our citizens here in the USA. jmho
China and Iran.