Only 52% of Americans are invested in the stock market.

[HereWeGoAgain]

Just Over Half of Americans Own Stocks, Matching Record Low

Nearly three in four middle-class Americans, with annual household incomes ranging from $30,000 to $74,999, said they invested money in the stock market in 2007. Today, only half report having stock investments. This 22-percentage-point drop is more than double the changes seen in stock investing among higher and lower income groups.

Over half of Americans have $0 in stocks

Who Rules America: Wealth, Income, and Power

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Right now, my two accounts are doing great. Moving up by thousands of dollars in just a few weeks.

But after the first of Jan and before Trump's swearing in, I'm changing to less risky investments. In 2008, Republican policies caused my portfolio to drop by more than a third. I can't afford that now that I'm retired.

CEO's and investors are delirious Trump is now the President elect. They assume he will be great for business. That he will slash corporate tax, screw the middle class, cut taxes for billionaires and do great things for investors.

Here's the problem. Consider a trade agreement like NAFTA which was actually put together by Republicans and signed by Bill Clinton after President Bush signed it first.

Trump Is Wrong, NAFTA Was Not Bill Clinton’s Creation





NAFTA supports over a hundred and forty thousand small and medium businesses in the United States. There were clauses in NAFTA to protect American workers. For instance, there was an education plan that would retrain American workers in case they lost their jobs because of NAFTA, but Republicans refused to fund it. Just like they refuse to help the Middle Class in anything. We all already know that.
There were environmental protection plans to protect both countries from environmental rape.

Republicans on the USMB will say Mexican Trucks can go anywhere in the US but US Trucks can't go into Mexico. That was because American Trucks can't go on Mexican roads. Too big. And Congress made an alteration that Mexican trucks have to unload at the boarder and American Trucks would pick up the goods. Mexican Trucks are simply too dangerous to drive on American highways. That's how things are supposed to work. You find a problem and you fix it.

Well, Trump supporters have cried for so long about NAFTA, Trump almost has to scrap it. Besides, he has already made an enemy of Mexico and possibly China.

The world is much more interconnected today and less dependent on the US. I believe Trump is going to sabotage trade agreements and cause a worse recession than 2008. I need to take my money out of risky investments and move them to safer investments. I will do that before Trump is sworn in. I think it won't take long before Trump's impact will distress the American economy.

In 2008, Republican policies caused my portfolio to drop by more than a third.

Which Republican policies?

Which of those policies was fixed by Obama?

You have a list you can post?

I need to take my money out of risky investments and move them to safer investments.

Which risky investments do you hold now?
Which safe ones will you buy soon?

He'll have no answers.

 

[Andylusion]

Just Over Half of Americans Own Stocks, Matching Record Low

Nearly three in four middle-class Americans, with annual household incomes ranging from $30,000 to $74,999, said they invested money in the stock market in 2007. Today, only half report having stock investments. This 22-percentage-point drop is more than double the changes seen in stock investing among higher and lower income groups.

Over half of Americans have $0 in stocks

Who Rules America: Wealth, Income, and Power

-----------------------------------------

Right now, my two accounts are doing great. Moving up by thousands of dollars in just a few weeks.

But after the first of Jan and before Trump's swearing in, I'm changing to less risky investments. In 2008, Republican policies caused my portfolio to drop by more than a third. I can't afford that now that I'm retired.

CEO's and investors are delirious Trump is now the President elect. They assume he will be great for business. That he will slash corporate tax, screw the middle class, cut taxes for billionaires and do great things for investors.

Here's the problem. Consider a trade agreement like NAFTA which was actually put together by Republicans and signed by Bill Clinton after President Bush signed it first.

Trump Is Wrong, NAFTA Was Not Bill Clinton’s Creation





NAFTA supports over a hundred and forty thousand small and medium businesses in the United States. There were clauses in NAFTA to protect American workers. For instance, there was an education plan that would retrain American workers in case they lost their jobs because of NAFTA, but Republicans refused to fund it. Just like they refuse to help the Middle Class in anything. We all already know that.
There were environmental protection plans to protect both countries from environmental rape.

Republicans on the USMB will say Mexican Trucks can go anywhere in the US but US Trucks can't go into Mexico. That was because American Trucks can't go on Mexican roads. Too big. And Congress made an alteration that Mexican trucks have to unload at the boarder and American Trucks would pick up the goods. Mexican Trucks are simply too dangerous to drive on American highways. That's how things are supposed to work. You find a problem and you fix it.

Well, Trump supporters have cried for so long about NAFTA, Trump almost has to scrap it. Besides, he has already made an enemy of Mexico and possibly China.

The world is much more interconnected today and less dependent on the US. I believe Trump is going to sabotage trade agreements and cause a worse recession than 2008. I need to take my money out of risky investments and move them to safer investments. I will do that before Trump is sworn in. I think it won't take long before Trump's impact will distress the American economy.

In 2008, Republican policies caused my portfolio to drop by more than a third.

Which Republican policies?

Which of those policies was fixed by Obama?

You have a list you can post?

I need to take my money out of risky investments and move them to safer investments.

Which risky investments do you hold now?
Which safe ones will you buy soon?

Rdean, like most on this forum, has the mental logical capacity of a 5-year-old. Asking him to actually research and determine specifically what policies caused what results, is like asking a 5-year-old to figure out how a smoke detector works.

While this is not difficult for an adult, for those like Rdean, the only logical deduction they are capable of, is "Bush was president, and something bad happened. Must be Bush's fault".

That's the limit of Rdeams deductive reasoning. Arguing with him, will get you a 5-year-old response if any. "It must have been his fault.... he was president!"

Asking him about specific policies? Seriously. Watch a fractal on your computer. You'll get more out of it, then rdean.

 

[HenryWallace]

You ever look at the titles of what you post for conflicts?
Just Over Half of Americans Own Stocks, Matching Record Low
Now that moron says just over half own.
Over half of Americans have $0 in stocks
That says over half do NOT own.
Common core math there idiot?

Wow, a difference in 2% between two different sources. Thanks for sniffing that out, you are a real hero

 

[Cellblock2429]

Just Over Half of Americans Own Stocks, Matching Record Low

Nearly three in four middle-class Americans, with annual household incomes ranging from $30,000 to $74,999, said they invested money in the stock market in 2007. Today, only half report having stock investments. This 22-percentage-point drop is more than double the changes seen in stock investing among higher and lower income groups.

Over half of Americans have $0 in stocks

Who Rules America: Wealth, Income, and Power

-----------------------------------------

Right now, my two accounts are doing great. Moving up by thousands of dollars in just a few weeks.

But after the first of Jan and before Trump's swearing in, I'm changing to less risky investments. In 2008, Republican policies caused my portfolio to drop by more than a third. I can't afford that now that I'm retired.

CEO's and investors are delirious Trump is now the President elect. They assume he will be great for business. That he will slash corporate tax, screw the middle class, cut taxes for billionaires and do great things for investors.

Here's the problem. Consider a trade agreement like NAFTA which was actually put together by Republicans and signed by Bill Clinton after President Bush signed it first.

Trump Is Wrong, NAFTA Was Not Bill Clinton’s Creation





NAFTA supports over a hundred and forty thousand small and medium businesses in the United States. There were clauses in NAFTA to protect American workers. For instance, there was an education plan that would retrain American workers in case they lost their jobs because of NAFTA, but Republicans refused to fund it. Just like they refuse to help the Middle Class in anything. We all already know that.
There were environmental protection plans to protect both countries from environmental rape.

Republicans on the USMB will say Mexican Trucks can go anywhere in the US but US Trucks can't go into Mexico. That was because American Trucks can't go on Mexican roads. Too big. And Congress made an alteration that Mexican trucks have to unload at the boarder and American Trucks would pick up the goods. Mexican Trucks are simply too dangerous to drive on American highways. That's how things are supposed to work. You find a problem and you fix it.

Well, Trump supporters have cried for so long about NAFTA, Trump almost has to scrap it. Besides, he has already made an enemy of Mexico and possibly China.

The world is much more interconnected today and less dependent on the US. I believe Trump is going to sabotage trade agreements and cause a worse recession than 2008. I need to take my money out of risky investments and move them to safer investments. I will do that before Trump is sworn in. I think it won't take long before Trump's impact will distress the American economy.

Does that number include a union members with vested pensions?

 

[Care4all]

Homicides per 100,000 nationwide.

Homicides — United States, 2007 and 2009

Derailing your OWN OP because you got caught looking stupid?
Folks here are used to it from you.

Looking stupid how?

But I do enjoy your joke of a map.

That blue map is yours moron.

I know.

This one's yours:

It's a joke. Mine is for real. SFB's.

Oh, mine is for real. The first one is a county by county map where you got your ass kicked, feel free to check it. The second is where democrats commit the most crimes and its a government map as well.

Your second map is utter bull crud Fury....

MAINE is the safest State in the union, next to Vermont. All of the New England states are comparatively safe, with the exception of Connecticut.

Your map says we are not...says we are crime ridden, that's a LIE.....fake, phony news