/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>18041560
>trump bux is a myth
I disagree.
We won't get bailouts, but now that everyone thinks we're getting a handout, AND that we deserve one because the government put us in time out, government wants to cut us a check. They just want to make sure they get to take credit for it.

Repubs want it to bribe them to vote for their guy don again, dems want it and want to paint it as "we did this and kept them from giving it to big business and wall street!!"

The big bucks will go to the "job creators" out in the swing states, like the casinos in vegas and the cruise lines in florida. Even if cruises don't actually employ too many americans...

>>18041597
generally futures mean very little
this is confirmed by the move in the Nikkei
I have no idea what it's based on, I assume technicals because we sold off insanely hard and fast, and notorious shortslut rkg was here saying she's going long.

>>16817679
?
you cut out the important part of the sentence:
>for a company that is failing and institutions have no interest in
If a company is being bought up and is going higher, than the shorts are more likely to be darkpools. If the company has no institutional support, is viewed negatively, is in a strong downtrend, etc. then it's likely NOT dark pools shorting to create liquidity, it's actual shortsellers betting on the company failing.

>>16817778
>Why would the western nations invade places like Vietnam if it were about resources?
Proxy wars like vietnam and korea aren't the same as the middle east conflicts.

Wars are good for demonstrating dominance and testing military hardware. There are many reasons.

In past eras, they have even been a tool to cull an unsustainably large population. Having all the young poor males die off in war beats having starvation and riots, and the women can be used by the noble and elite to repopulate at more sustainable levels. And if you somehow manage to win the conflict and claim the enemies resources, that's an excellent bonus prize.

War is not as simple as we like to pretend. Considering the decline in US manufacturing, a nice war could be a perfect excuse to get people into factories to make bombs and planes and ships. That's economic stimulus.

Similar for China and Russian manufacturing. Iran seems to like buying russia's munitions these days.

CSCO, KO, and MRK... the real Dudes of the Dow

>>16728053
interesting very...
I know we've had some anons make some money off sunrun, and Buffett has some wind energy company but he says he's only doing it because the gov't subsidizes it to make it profitable.

Chinkshit... I know there's a lot of money to be made when Xi is willing to prop up dumpster fires like NIO... I'm only in BILI because it's cute as fuck and they've got Elon and Marx on their side.

And FGO... shit I should've bought more instead of just that one call.

>>16728068
Did you take the opportunity to buy based KO and PEP today? Also a very nice dip in MRK that majorly reversed...

>>16648575
I like a lot of those holdings, but I'm wary of all that UTX, Honeywell, and Boeing... Kinda rather just buy LMT and LHX directly, maybe a bit of NOC too. We'll see about RTN once the merger is completed.

>>16648650
So they're a few months late again, I thought as much. They made the case on last weeks edition for the opportunity in tobacco divvies fukkin kek. MAYBE imbby is an opportunity, but I'm not screwing with the UK outside of megacap pharma (GSK and AZN)