Obama's election was my cue to cut and run. Made enough then to stay out of the market entirely. Yeah, that ultimately meant leaving money on the table but by then I had enough to last a lifetime so why screw with success?
Bears make money.
Bulls make money.
Pigs get slaughtered.
And you are wrong cuz it's so much b.s. opinion.
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We find that real estate investors play a critical role in the rise in mortgage debt only for the middle and the top of the credit score distribution. The share of mortgage balances of real estate investors rose from 20% to 35% between 2004 and 2007 for quartiles 2 and 3 of the credit score distribution.
Most importantly, we find that the rise in mortgage delinquencies is virtually exclusively accounted for by real estate investors. The fraction of borrowers with delinquent mortgage balances grew by 30 percentage points between 2005 and 2008 for the lowest three quartiles of the credit score distribution, and by 10 percentage points for borrowers in the top quartile,
while it was virtually constant for borrowers with only one first mortgage. "
Facts say the market crashed during Bush Jr, who had two terms in office after President G. Herbert Walker Bush and Clinton had brought the deficit under control.
The recovery began and continued through eight years of the Obama administration. That was followed by the Trump Pandemic and Recession that we are now recovering from under President Biden. Those are facts, they have dates and can be measured by GDP and other economic indicators.
Opinions are like a$$#oles, everyone has one.
Where we are today is recovering from the Trump Pandemic and the Trump Recession and into the Biden Recovery.
We have a problem with white extremism and racism.
I'll show you pics of the Trump Insurrection attack on the Capitol Building if you haven't seen them.
We have a problem with cybersecurity and the hacking of private companies by Russian cybercriminals acting with impunity under Putin's regime.
There is still a Healthcare problem.
We have a problem with even more income disparity or the wealth gap. That is across the states.
Global warming still hasn't gone away.
We do have an opportunity to invest in green energy.
Ford released it's all electric F150
China is our major competitor in the markets for solar energy and fusion.
They are also our major competitor in advances in military and space application.
Those are the facts,