/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>7115266

Because most people don't have the ability to gauge and act on highs and lows.

If you have this skill, you're in a tiny minority and should have a net worth of several million.

LINKlet here. What in the name of sweet fuck are you people even talking about?

>>2011450

>Having any sort of coherent argument

>You

It's not a matter of opinion. 2013 is now recorded historical fact. You can easily pull up the charts and read the news from that period.

>>1338768

Look at this left-wing cuckold.

There are things more important than your junior portfolio, Mr. Vagina face.

Of course you wouldn't understand. England is one of the greatest civilizations on the planet, with a nearly 2,000 year legacy. Something you will never have or even fathom.

>Compared to a mortgage, with an investment portfolio there are no insurance or maintenance costs, no property tax, no 5% commission to sell, no utilities or mortgage payments. Plus it delivers income, can easily be rebalanced to adjust to current conditions and within a shelter delivers tax-free gains.

Given these facts. How much of a financially illiterate dilettante does one have to be to even consider direct real estate purchase an "investment"?

Are people literally stupid? Or do they simply not see that the gains since 2009 are the result of a low interest rate bubble?