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2025 Investment Thread

so it's rather bizarre to me that I'd even have an interest in a thread like this but I inherited wealth and have watched it double in the last decade. I feel like I should learn something about stocks, particularly the ones I own, but the broker seems to be doing well and it is more money than I ever thought about having. I try to wrap my head around it but it's just beyond me, so I turn back to the simple things and find I'm still out of my depth. I should look into wealth management but the stock market still seems like gambling for rich people.
 
I'd recommend not doing that. Knowing a little is so much worse than knowing nothing. Knowing nothing, you just leave it in there and forget about it and you'll win. Know a little and you'll ruin everything.
 
byke said:
I'd recommend not doing that. Knowing a little is so much worse than knowing nothing. Knowing nothing, you just leave it in there and forget about it and you'll win. Know a little and you'll ruin everything.
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This.
 
tuxumino said:
so it's rather bizarre to me that I'd even have an interest in a thread like this but I inherited wealth and have watched it double in the last decade. I feel like I should learn something about stocks, particularly the ones I own, but the broker seems to be doing well and it is more money than I ever thought about having. I try to wrap my head around it but it's just beyond me, so I turn back to the simple things and find I'm still out of my depth. I should look into wealth management but the stock market still seems like gambling for rich people.
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Congrats man. Try not to get wrapped around the axle about it. I hope you can live comfortably and enjoy using it for something good.
 
Mike95060 said:
Leadership is an interesting topic. Your boy let me borrow a book on the subject 😉
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If you are interested, my wife has a library of books (and experience) on leadership. She has been retired 8 or 10 years (I don't know), and yesterday received an email from a former Sun Microsystems employe who is now an attorney in Oz. She attributes her success to Lynn; many other former colleagues have as well. She ended her career at Sun, before they were bought and broken up by Oracle, as the head of a global law group. She was not an attorney, but mentored many folks. Too bad I didn't learn anything from her, eh? :cool:
 
tuxumino said:
so it's rather bizarre to me that I'd even have an interest in a thread like this but I inherited wealth and have watched it double in the last decade. I feel like I should learn something about stocks, particularly the ones I own, but the broker seems to be doing well and it is more money than I ever thought about having. I try to wrap my head around it but it's just beyond me, so I turn back to the simple things and find I'm still out of my depth. I should look into wealth management but the stock market still seems like gambling for rich people.
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If you year to year growth is matching the overall market then don't worry be happy.

If the year to year growth is significantly below the overall market (19 percent or so), then consider following Buffet's advice and invest in index funds which many BARFers could point to a few to consider. They are pretty much buy and forget, (though of course I mess with them).
 
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Next week. Anyone have any experience with them? Impressions so far are good
 
900ss said:
If you are interested, my wife has a library of books (and experience) on leadership. She has been retired 8 or 10 years (I don't know), and yesterday received an email from a former Sun Microsystems employe who is now an attorney in Oz. She attributes her success to Lynn; many other former colleagues have as well. She ended her career at Sun, before they were bought and broken up by Oracle, as the head of a global law group. She was not an attorney, but mentored many folks. Too bad I didn't learn anything from her, eh? :cool:
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I'm interested! but also realistic about my ability to get though a book these days. #shame. :laughing

It's always rad to know you mad a positive impact on the up and comers. Good on Mrs. Ken!!
 
byke said:
I'd recommend not doing that. Knowing a little is so much worse than knowing nothing. Knowing nothing, you just leave it in there and forget about it and you'll win. Know a little and you'll ruin everything.
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oh I have a BA in philosphy I know a lot about knowing nothing
 
Silver? Spot today is $50.81 per oz, one could buy a Pamp Suisse 10 oz bar today at Costco for $549.99 (Good Luck Dragon, I liked the Lady Fortuna). With the 4% discount (exec membership and Citi's Costco Visa) that is $527.99. Not too much above spot. I am not buying, but wish I had at about $345.00, when I bought a bunch of 1 oz coins from them about a year ago. I walked by the 10 oz bars so many times, thinking "wow, they sure are pretty but nah, it's not going anywhere". The moral of this story is do not follow my investing advice. ;) I might buy one anyway, just because. After all, I did give 20 of the coins away to a friend. In the words of Ian Anderson (of Jethro Tull), I am sometimes "Thick As A Brick".

But hey, philanthropy for friends in need... :thumbup
 
What is going on with Oracle's backpedal and slide? Come on Larry, turn your yacht around, get back to $300-ish before the end of the year so I can feel good about dumping our position, which I will do anyway. Pure greed on my behalf I know. :LOL:
 
In 2008, gold was taken from $1020 to $700 and silver was pounded from $21 to $7 during the period of time that Bear Stearns, Lehman and the U.S. financial system was collapsing.
Remember
 
Re: silver, what about the Hunt Brothers in the 1970s?
 
Reli said:
Immediately followed by a consistent and powerful rise from 2009 thru 2011
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Took gold over a decade to double with a temporary blip in between. It was far outperformed by the S&P over same decade.
The 2008 drop in gold shows no asset class is safe when shit hits the fan. When folks need to pay bills they sell whatever they own including gold.
 
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