Comment on Top economist on the economy’s dirty truth: The only people who feel good are ‘making over $200,000’ and ‘have large stock portfolios’

expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• viking@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Smart investors aren’t all in and use the drop to gobble up shares.

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  • sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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    Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered. Usually it's retail investors who end up getting slaughtered.

    Even people going deeply into risky bets usually have a "barbell" strategy where they'll rebalance from the high risk high growth to low risk low growth so they can see growth but in a downturn they aren't facing huge losses.