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GreatGazoo

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3. There are no crashes anymore. Market is rigged and irrational
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 08:12 AM
21 hrs ago

Looks like only the QQQ will have to buy the SpaceX IPO with a time constraint but even then only in proportion to the float which is low. Morningstar thinks SpaceX will make up less than 1% of the SPY so even if SpaceX became worthless in August the "crash" for those holding passive indexed funds would be less than -1%.

It is a ponzi scheme but so is the whole economy. That's why we have $39 trillion debt. The crypto bubble got Ponzi'd into the AI bubble, eg lots of crypto mining infrastructure got rebranded as "data centers". Crypto is crashing right now but the market isn't.

Losing the Iran war and struggling in Ukraine is driving investment in new weapons systems. "Space" mostly means military systems like satellites, hypersonic missiles and directed energy weapons (DEW). Airplanes and tanks are getting replaced. No expense will be spared.

My prediction: SpaceX is not profitable as is so it will use some of the IPO money to buy related companies that are closer to profit or already in the black: RDW, RKLB, LUNR, RCAT, etc. Many of these have doubled in the last month.

I would not sell SPY and would hold off on buying more QQQ until the dust settles a bit but crashes are now impossible. The stock market is socialism (ironic) for Boomers and the investor class. Investors and banks are the only ones that get bailed out in a downturn (see 2008 and March 2020). They will print enough $$$ to backstop the markets no matter what. I like GLD or GLDM right now. Easy call -- it will continue to rise as oil reroutes and output increases. Shiny rocks.

GLDM will be over $120 by year end, up 30% from right now. Has good support at $85-87 so danged little risk now.

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/fund/gldm

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Sold my last 3 stocks. Moved money to a multigraincracker 22 hrs ago #1
You may be right edhopper 22 hrs ago #2
If the Democrats win back Congress this fall I predict a stock market correction. yardwork 21 hrs ago #4
Trump will still be President edhopper 18 hrs ago #22
There are no crashes anymore. Market is rigged and irrational GreatGazoo 21 hrs ago #3
That kind of rigging can't hold forever paulkienitz 20 hrs ago #11
and yet here we are GreatGazoo 19 hrs ago #15
The issue is how many times have we been told to leave the market? Melon 20 hrs ago #5
Yeah, that's where I am ITAL 20 hrs ago #8
It took six years to recover edhopper 18 hrs ago #23
Six years isn't that long for me ITAL 18 hrs ago #24
Or get out now and edhopper 14 hrs ago #28
Preferably you are cost averaging. Melon 8 hrs ago #32
There are other investments edhopper 7 hrs ago #33
No it's not "just as risky". paulkienitz 20 hrs ago #9
Ill gotten ponzy...huh? You mean investment returns. Melon 19 hrs ago #21
"others success"? There is no success to profit from in AI. paulkienitz 17 hrs ago #25
Go read what Sam Altman is saying. Uber and Melon 8 hrs ago #31
That math doesn't math -- companies will not pay enough. paulkienitz 45 min ago #34
WSJ and Gallup did a story looking at how Democrat voters are losing money GreatGazoo 19 hrs ago #16
"Democratic." The adjective form is "Democratic." ColoringFool 19 hrs ago #17
I could have put a hyphen in there but noun GreatGazoo 19 hrs ago #20
No Johnny2X2X 20 hrs ago #6
I've heard that song before. paulkienitz 20 hrs ago #10
We've been waiting decades for a bubble Johnny2X2X 20 hrs ago #12
Index funds are like 50% AI bubble now. paulkienitz 19 hrs ago #14
9 years ago when I joined DU, people were saying that Bitcoin would burst and go to near zero Polybius 35 min ago #36
Bitcoin will either sputter on for decades, or go almost instantaneously to zero at any time -- it's not predictable. paulkienitz 33 min ago #37
People are predicting the market is holding on Johonny 20 hrs ago #7
I turned some investments into a newer and larger house CanonRay 20 hrs ago #13
I'll just keep my NVIDIA,TYVM. ColoringFool 19 hrs ago #18
Jensen Huang is pulling sooo many circular-financing fast ones... paulkienitz 19 hrs ago #19
Heard the same shit from Thom Hartmann a few years back Ziggy Beans 17 hrs ago #26
That same lie was told before the last two crashes. paulkienitz 14 hrs ago #29
imho Fat gains should be pruned. Rotation is underway. bucolic_frolic 17 hrs ago #27
Simple.... multigraincracker 12 hrs ago #30
More apropos to the current situation, index funds do the opposite. paulkienitz 7 min ago #38
I think that's a terrible prediction Polybius 38 min ago #35
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