the market: stocks, bonds, options, whatever

[ions]

The one caption I saw was when precious metals are behaving like a meme coin something is wrong with the economy.

 

[Electrum1]

Yeah up 9% then immediately down 10% the next day is definitely not normal

 

[thujone]

usage is going to fall off in solar too as soon as perovskites are commercially viable

 

[CfZrx]

NAK is interesting. A huge mine that will prob never be developed, but has dramatic rises and falls, which can be profitable

 

[ions]

I do think our governments are manipulating the price of alternative currencies in an attempt to get rich off it.
Moreso on the bitcoin front. I was expecting metals to sky rocket one day which is happening.
Bitcoin I thought would continue an upward trend. It's still high, just in the crapper atm.

 

[Bleaney]

Trump can manipulate the stock markets of virtually the entire world, just by saying he's going to alter the US tariff rates.

As we've all seen.

One day they plummet, after announcements of global tariff increases, but all it takes is for him to announce that he's changed his mind, and he's going to reduce tariffs, and the markets fully rebound right back up again.

It's insane the power this guy has, and the ease with which he can manipulate things. Of course he will deny that that thought ever even crossed his mind, and his accountants will be making sure that he cant be directly tied to any personal profiteering from these actions, or for his party, but it seems a pretty sure bet that Trump, and his cronies, are going to be making lots of money from all of this volatility.

That he is, at certain times, quite directly in control of.

 

[ions]

libertarians are for austrian economics and a free market. When you have some clown saying what the interest rates should be, it's definitely not a free market.
I don't know what scares people so much about a free market. It's good for everyone.

 

[thujone]

bah

i don't really believe in silver but i think it could still rip higher in the short term

going long

 

[Shady's Fox]

metal reached such artificial value that is almost impossible to get into the market, barely not gettin ripped off while pawning.

even ram(memory modules) old DDR3 have a price of a 2013 GPU in some extreme parts, it makes you strangle the fuckin owner. DDR7 modules made it into extinction point and hence why is difficult to buy a 50's series GPU, no matter if is sh or not.

ddr4 modules not even bringing them into convo..

Point is, nobody gonna invest with this weeding left and right, not even mentioning buying for gifts/personal use.

 

[Shady's Fox]

Phones as well, I've wanted to buy the new S26 but looking at my S24+ is a huge minus.

in terms of specs their same fish food but the catch was that I've wanted to have one for me and one for work and tsk..

Yeah, Samsung, you buy what you make.. we others we're boys boss

 

[thujone]

even ram(memory modules) old DDR3 have a price of a 2013 GPU

finally my time has come

i remember not that long ago retailers would be throwing DDR4 inventory into bundles for stupid shit like even you buy a low end CPU and hey here's 32GB of RAM

now it's a rarity

come to think of it, i have a lot of RAM...

 

[Shady's Fox]

That's a possibility although I never seen such offer, I did see instead others type of such as GPU+ Y videogame/CPU plus headsets or case, most of the time they were reduced not bundled. Could as well.. I'd imagine selling a i5-6400 plus 32 ddr4 bundle alone just to have another i7-6700 more discounted, these type of marketing had some charm and about 40% of time it did sold out well enough to justify the registry books.

I have 128GB ddr5 that I have planned to sell them but decided not to. They'll be useful in the near future.

I could get a 4090 plus a sh 2080Ti for them lol but no, my goal is to not to sell them anymore.

 

[Electrum1]

come to think of it, i have a lot of RAM...

 

[ions]

might need nitric acid.

 

[thujone]

@Electrum1 what is/was your plan for all that stuff?

 

[ions]

he's planning on building a super army of artificial men. Mostly electrum based.

 

[thujone]

theyre gonna be pretty slow with that old ram

but i could see rental terminators taking off as a business model

 

[Electrum1]

@Electrum1 what is/was your plan for all that stuff?

I used to deal with big lots of printers and computers from government auctions, and we'd piece together good ones to resell. Kept a lot of the chips and ram from the bad ones just because they have gold in them

 

[thujone]

u.s. government auctions seem so wild

i see sometimes on yt random vids like here's how i bought a decommissioned ICBM

 

[Shady's Fox]

is like the same thing as selling clothes to a thrift store