That is the way to do it, but only if you can spare the 500.
I put 100 euros into DOGE right before Elon started talking about it. I sold at triple the price. It's the little things, sometimes xD
I am not sure how chickens are kept in the US. I just know in Europe there are basically two types of eggs; There's the "free range" ones and there is the "ground kept" (loosely translated). The first means the chickens live outside mostly and have a coop to sleep and lay their eggs. The second means the chickens are kept in very large halls at ground level. The first kind is only marginally more expensive; I pay about 3 dollars for 10 "ground level" eggs and about 4 dollars for 10 "free range" eggs. They both taste the same. I think the indoor chickens feel safer.
"Cage free" has been a thing for a few decades in Europe now and eggs do not seem to be more expensive here.
First off, this is not financial advice. I am not an expert.
Whatever you do, make sure every dollar you invest into anything is a dollar that you can live without. I never invest any money that I could not lose. In fact, as soon as I invest, I consider the money "lost".
Here are my (messy) thoughts.
If you have any credit, try to pay off as a much as you can. Car. House. Stuff like that. Interest rates are falling, but only very slowly. If you think you can beat the interest rate on credit by investing, then of course, go for investing. Also, I think the world will be in a better, more stable place, as soon as Donald John Trump takes office, which could reduce the likelihood of wars and crashes. However, perhaps you should consider spending some money on making sure you can survive hard times. Canned goods. Armament. Munitions. Physical gold and silver. Razors. Toothbrushes. Lighters. It's stuff like that that were very valuable during for instance the war in Yugoslavia.
Now, if you are adamant to invest; It all depends on your situation. If you have young children, you can do long-term investment reducing risk. If you want to take more risk, you should really time entry right. I am not sure a crash is coming, but certainly there are bubbles. Depending on where you live, obtaining a secondary property could work for you. In some countries, there are many plots of land next to cities that will be developed within the next 10-30 years. Those offer very real possibilities of high returns.
I have always liked investing in commodities, because I found it easier to think about their price dynamics. For instance, there appears to be a mismatch between the prices of gold and silver. Some people claim silver is priced too low. Others claim gold is too high. I think gold and silver are always good investments, certainly long-term. If at all possible, physical gold and silver are good options.
A few years back, I invested in oil right before Russia invaded Ukraine. Also wheat and corn. Those were good investments, but timing your exit is difficult. I have also noticed that cocoa has a fairly obvious seasonal price swing, but overall pricing depends very much on the size of the harvest (weather). I found it difficult to get good returns on it. I think it is best to observe for a long while, before entering with small amounts.
When it comes to crypto, I am weary. I have been mining my own for a few years with good returns, but then completely stopped as energy prices went crazy where I live. We have seen BTC crash and then regain value. It is now priced high, but may it still be undervalued? ETH is no longer mineable. I haven't even looked into how staking works... Trump has said he will make sure the US government will buy X amount of BTC and stable coins such as XRP. Will their prices go up? Probably yes. Will people cash in at some point? Probably yes.
I have, in the past, invested in anything to do with the "energy transition"; I am not a fan of it, but in market terms, interesting things were happening, at least for a while. I put money into lithium mining corps. That got a bit of a return as well, but since then I think we have passed the lithium-bump and the future of battery tech is in solid state batteries. I think I should really invest a few thousands into those companies. Solid state batteries hold more energy, are more stable and are not affected by temperature as much as lithium-ion batteries, so as soon as production ramps up, I think they will displace much of the lithium-ion batteries, especially and firstly in the EV-market. This may even make EVs a viable mode of transportation, which, in my opinion, right now, it isn't.
Companies like nVidia, Intel and AMD are always safe bets to maintain value, but Intel has suffered from disastrous CPU-sales as their latest two generations appear to show catastrophic deterioration of the silicon, making the CPUs go bad within a few years. This has motivated consumers to move over to AMD. AMD is doing well. However, Intel have recently launched a new line-up of GPUs that have a superior performance per dollar compared to AMD. I think Intel could recover somewhat. The price of nVidia stock is very much linked to AI; as soon as that bubble bursts, I think nVidia stock will go down.
When it comes to Meta and Google, I am skeptical; Google is under threat of being broken up (a good thing). Sometimes your own opinion about a company should certainly determine your willingness to invest in said company. I find Alpha/Google completely uninteresting. Meta put all its money into the Metaverse; An idea which has since died. I think they will find it hard to come up with something new. The new thing is obviously AI. Google is doing well in that regard. Meta may follow. Both companies just are not to my liking and I refuse to invest any money into them. Apple is a dud in my opinion. They seem to have lost their innovation power. They VR-stuff is very limited and very much overpriced.
With regard to the general market. We may face a crash still, but I think the crash we will see will mostly be limited to AI. The AI-bubble has been going on for a while. As much as the consumer-applications of AI seem to be great (chatGPT, audio, video), people are getting kind of tired of AI's products and no one is going to pay for AI-generated content. It is a gimmick. I for one have completely stopped watching AI-voiced content. Authenticity is key; I appreciate natural speech with all its flaws. I think in this regard, I am weary of investing in AI companies. There are simply not enough business models that can even work in theory, let alone in practice.
Apparently, China is not doing so well. China has of course had very real problems in the housing market. They can't really make good gas-powered cars, but their EVs are doing well. However, I think we have already passed the EV-bump as subsidies and thus reality, has been setting in. Now, what would happen to the world economy if China's economy crashes? I am not sure. Would we see a limit to the flow of cheap consumer goods going to the West? I don't think so. Could we possibly see a revival of production of such goods in the US? Maybe.
PS: Forget about Microsoft as well. Windows 11 is making a lot of people move to Linux.
Don Lemon rubbed his fingers on his balls and made people sniff them.
Just for that he should be locked up for life and beaten to a pulp monthly.
I have saved and backed up any document, video and podcast.
People who deny what happened should slowly be tortured to death for all the world to see. No mercy for these people.
More like economic fall statement
Thanks for delivering my new dinner plates!
Hacking... it's just a progress bar :-D
Dudes and dudettes, calm down. The Iranians have a few people who know how to use Blender.
This woman sound like an actual retard.
818 stands for "Hitler, Adolf Hitler"
Like a Nazi James Bond
How about never and never?
When do Byrds sing?
This one is clearly a human made object. Could even be a normal jet. Green on the right wing. Red on the left wing. Landing lights.
The granny photo was not actually from the Capitol. It was entirely unrelated.
At the end of the day, in the long term, every war is determined by only a few things:
- Number of citizens; more is better
- Locally available resources
- Production capacity
- International support
On 1,3 and 4 the USA is far stronger than Russia and this will not change anytime soon, if ever.
What Russia has now is a weapon system that, using conventional means, can achieve effects similar to nuclear means. But note that Oreshnik is still experimental; They can't have many of these missiles yet as they are yet to be put into mass production.
Also, the Russian air force and navy are not on par with that of the USA. The Russian navy; we do not even have to talk about it. It is useless and always has been. Besides a few subs that carry the nuclear threat, there is not much to fear from the Russian navy.
The Russian air force has been developing (rebuilding rather). In Syria Russia showed it can perform sustained operations and keep up sortie numbers for reasonable lengths of time. However, in a direct confrontation with the US and NATO-allies, the Russian air force will not survive. Their newest jet is available in small numbers. In terms of strategic and tactical bombers, the numbers are very limited, as well.
However, and this is the thing, Oreshnik is capable of destroying airbases more or less by surprise. This is not a problem for the continental US, but it is for Germany, France and the UK. I have no numbers on Germany and France, but the UK only really has three airbases of note. Their main fighter, the Eurofighter is stationed at one of those bases. Numbers are fairly low as well, as many of the RAF Eurofighters are stationed abroad. Defacto, the RAF has 4 (!) Eurofighters for quick reaction to enemey airspace incursions.
There is something incredibly comedic about the personification of death. I remember reading Terry Pratchett's "Mort" on the morning commuter train and having to giggle so many times.
Okay, I will check it out.
The vertical misalignment is easily explained; It depends on where the light sources are in relation to the optical axis. If they are slightly left from the optical axis the reflections would appear on the right of the optical center (the pixel in the image corresponding to the optical axis) and vice versa.
I have worked with DSLRs for over twenty years. I have done many camera calibrations and work with all the math. I have worked on optics design for tiny projectors.
My take: these could very well be internal reflections.
The easiest resolution to find the truth; find an image from a different perspective that shows the same formation.
Force vaccinate this commie
Soros should be disappropriated. Confiscate everything he and his family owns.
I hope Elon puts father and son in a rocket and sends it into the sun.
The world would be so much better without these psychos.
Also, Dutch does not have an ü. It's regular u is pronounced ü. The German u sound, the Dutch write as "oe" (oo in English).
I did not even have to google anything to know this was fake/comms.
I would have told them we will force vaccinate them every day until they die. I give them a month.
Only the middle one...?
These are the same people who call us CIS gendered. xD