We definitely cover a lot of medical truth here, and a bit of investment guidance, but would anyone want a general financial literacy and general investing and money/asset management thread to get put together?
They certainly didn’t ever teach a lot of Americans the basics, and if that hasn’t been dug on, I could see it still being a blind spot for a lot of people.
Probably most don’t, especially right now. but it’s still not unusual for 40+.
Saving $2,000 a month from age 22 to 42 while getting 7% returns puts net worth at $1,000,000. The recent inflation has made it hard, but it used to be pretty doable to save $2000 a month on a $55-70K salary (spend under $2000/mo) - especially with good 401K matching.
Good investment companies typically return well over 7%, too, often in the 15% range. At 15% returns, just $1000 a month over that same 20 years results in $1.4m.
https://bankrate.com/banking/savings/save-million-calculator
Let’s please stop making me defend Patches by moving on to something he’s actually guilty of. I’d much rather post my anti-Patches memes.
Not one year. He’s been in Congress for 6 years. With how many small positions he has, 33 trades doesn’t stick out (other than being “33”), especially if it’s managed for him by a broker. The $315K is not his profit, it’s his positions.
His voting record does suck, his public trades just don’t seem to have any big warning flags.
Haven’t heard anything about either of those. Are those claims certain?
Did you just read the title, then click comment?
Much as I love catturd and can’t stand McCrenshaw, $313,000 is not precisely a huge sum when it comes to investments for a 40 year old.
https://www.marketbeat.com/congress-stock-trades/profiles/dan-crenshaw/
Are his investments elsewhere?
Dan has made a great deal of money from book royalties. His book, Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage , was on the New York Times best seller list for some time.
https://www.thisnation.com/politics/people/dan-crenshaw-net-worth-bio/
Looks like his net worth is 1.4-2.1 million, which is very good for 40, but certainly not unreachable, especially with a “bestseller book deal” (red flag).
His financial portfolio shows significant diversification, with real property forming the largest portion at $750,000, followed by investments in Delaware Statutory Trust worth $375,000.
https://crix11.org/dan-crenshaw-net-worth
Nothing unusual on the real estate, but what’s this Delaware Trust? Anyhow, sorry to defend Patches, but truth is truth, and he doesn’t look overly suspicious financially.
Nice catch!
I’ve been looking to Germany, where it was more obvious from the mid-1800’s to 1917 that some “German” (“Prussian”, but who were they?) group was trying to genocide the other Germans. “Ger Mans” might mean “Men of the Land”, and Germany was supposedly one of the last agrarian cultures in Europe.
We might be looking at an ongoing war where the seed of Cain is trying to exterminate the seed of Adam, where by stupid metrics like “skin color” or “country of birth” or even “ethnicity”, the divides can’t be discerned.
Something has definitely been ongoing in England for quite some time as well. Spot the hidden hands.
Pretty sure that the massive flying black stone looking things are “aliens”, or “fallen angels” more accurately. If so, I suspect they’ve masqueraded as “gods” to the Greeks, Egyptians, and others before, and would probably be looking to do so again.
Not worried about them either way. If God tells them “no”, they’re powerless, as Eliyahu and others proved to the faces of their prophets.
Probably involved, for sure. “One cause” is often less likely than “many causes”, and there were a lot of English converts to Islam among the nobles.
Pointing to a blind spot, basically.
Possible. There’s certainly a path of redemption from it as well. More looking at how England started on its path to be where it’s at
No telling where America started at.
Name checks out.
Turned out, that’s because the bills are just excuses for the 4th branch agencies to make the actual statutes that get operated on.
They literally don’t know what’s in the bill until it passes because the actual “laws” haven’t been written yet when the bill passes.
I fell victim to the first rule of forums!
Read all comments before commenting, because somebody is gonna make your comment first.
Did you see my “Fauci” means “sickle” meme?
100% they both are.
Seems likely that GME moon tickets will feed BTC buys nicely, but we don’t know where BTC will end up either. USD has QUINTILLIONS that could end up flowing into it.
We’ll find out.
“Not in all the other fraudulent BS in the market.”
Why not both? We have no idea what’s coming. GME could potentially fizzle while BTC moons.
I suspect both will moon, and both need to be held. BTC may not have the returns of GME, but may end up more valuable long term. In a full spectrum war, don’t limit yourself to playing in one color.
The article cited: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abq0603#tab-contributors
The NIH article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37585505/
The lead’s lab contact page: https://web.archive.org/web/20241119142420/https://saltzmanlab.Yale.edu/contact
Reuters says this didn’t happen. Ha ha ha ha.
Kinda what I figured, though it would be difficult for them to collect, just not necessarily to “encourage” collection.
The fun side of the plan though would be..
If the distribution was taken and put into Bitcoin in early Jan 2025, then the FRN goes full Weimar before EOY, it’s fairly trivial to cash a few lifeboat assets to pay the FRN tax and remnant debts come time in 2026.
It’d definitely be a big chips-to-table bet on the death of FRN.
This probably means they already had it.
How crazy would it be to cash an entire 401k to distribution, chuck it all into BTC, and pretend “income” taxes don’t exist, since none of it is “income”?
Now, I’m really not so sure that this idea applies to 401k’s, as that’s voluntary contracting, and could easily put us in scope of their statutes.
On the other hand, how are they gonna get it? What if I lost my wallet password in a tragic boating accident?
Nobody would have even noticed the dip if they were properly invested because GME floated very nicely.
I like the stock.
I got yer lightbulbs right here.
The word “holy” means “set apart”, which is inherently divisional.
The key is “how” that’s done. The Scribes of the Bible would not interact with gentiles. Makes it rather difficult to be a light and blessing to all nations, it seems. The Muslims tend to force conversion. Hindus believe cows are dieties.
Jesus declared that he who would be first must make himself least and be a servant.
The founders knew very clearly which god they referred to, and were not vague to allow invitations of “Allah” or “Kali” or “Ba’al” or “Molech”.
No formal religion may have their manifestation of faith fully correct, but many religions endorse moral frameworks that are completely incompatible with Biblical teachings.
We cannot condemn child sacrifice or genital mutilation of children and say that we must allow full freedom of religion. Some religions consider those things forms of worship. It isn’t possible to square that circle.
On top of that, the constitution wasn’t vague. It says very explicitly, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”. So 1. No Anglican / Roman state-sponsored church 2. No shutting down or telling some church what they can’t do.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=A6R_-AvCUsQ
In spite of its many flaws, Islam is probably not wholly off the rails, having some redeeming aspects, but also neither “freedom of religion” nor “the Constitution” is compatible with it. A nation will either be Christian, Islamic, or transitioning.