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      26 days ago

      That doesn’t stop him from borrowing real money from real banks using this supposedly imaginary stock value as collateral. I’m sure he’s more than happy for people to call it fake news while he buys yachts and islands and surrogate mothers with that money.

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      If you have a retirement account or an index fund you are one of those cunts

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        Not me; I contacted my pension fund last week to move it entirely out of equities and into bonds & cash.

        Which is no guarantee, but… I’m not close enough to retirement that this would normally be sensible, but I know I’m close enough that I’d never earn back the losses from the mother of all crashes that is riding into view on the back of these IPOs (and the “I can’t believe it’s not a crime!” changes to index rules to fast track this nonsense into trackers, guaranteeing that pension funds and the like will be left holding the bag.)

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    Who even gives a shit at this point. It’s almost laughable. The stock market creates money from thin air without any sensible valuations anymore. Could be a decidillionaire at this point and nothing would change.

    Governments should really find a way to tax unrealised gains. Then this fiesta would end quickly.

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      My man, my stock market portfolio could go up when Trump tweets about a deal, get hit by a huge tax, then I won’t have the money to pay the tax when it turns out there’s no deal

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        Taxes can be variable depending on income, net worth, number of children, nipple circumference, or any other measure we decide to use. Don’t talk about them like you’re in the same category as Elon Musk because there are very few categories in which that is true.

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            Or just make you pay capital gains tax on the collateral and step up the cost basis to the date of the loan

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          But they never just pass a tax that only affects the wealthy. I ended up paying AMT one year because I had capital gains. I think that’s ridiculous because it was meant to affect only rich people and I had a one time windfall

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    Humanity is disgusting for us to allow this to continue to get to this point. It’s an obscene thing to have happened and is one of many stains on our history as people & will be pointed to in the future as evidence of a dark age. Imagine discovering an alien species and then learning they are capable of the same depravity and carelessness as people.

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    He’s still alive so i’m just waiting for that to change, him being the world’s biggest douchebag is not important.

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    There are 20 billion $100 USD notes in circulation.

    This motherfucker has half of them.