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Thanks to whoever tweeted whatever or whatever happened to make GME go up this time. I had a little sitting around because I felt FOMO and wanted to catch it the next time this happened and I finally was able to. Never do this with money you aren't willing to have rot away, but it's fun for me in the same way gambling is fun LOL.
 
Do you guys have any strategies or advice on finding new companies to look at? I mostly park my investments in ETFs and a few mega-corps but I want to take a slightly more active role in my investing. I don't want to be a day trader but I would like to try to buy low, sell high once in a while.

I'm reminded of my free stock I got when I signed up to robinhood years ago. I forget the name now but it was some small biotech firm and I had fun researching, watching and trying to decide if and when to sell. My idea right now is to look at some Fidelity ETFs I came across that were comprised of small cap, growth companies and to see if any stand out.

But does anyone have any other ideas on how I can find new companies worth researching and perhaps investing in?
 
I'm worried about emerging markets, at least for western investors.

US government employees have a retirement plan called TSP, and the international index just changed to a new one specifically excluding China and Hong Kong. You may say "great!" but the feds not wanting to invest in China is interesting, because there's also an effort to make it hard to invest in China period, not to mention various companies being classified as uninvestable. Then there's the Chinese espionage arrests and so on.

Now India is in the news with accusations that they've been buying off MPs in Canada. What Modi is up to, I'm not sure. I know he was buying a lot of Russian oil.

Then there's Russia which we all know about.

If you have an emerging market fund especially or even a total international fund, it probably has a lot of China, Hong Kong (which is China), and India. Time to be careful.
 
So... Looks like the new policy in China is an "unofficial" freeze on IPOs for certain sectors, IT, AI, Biotech, pharm companies are not allowed to IPO UNLESS their market value is capped at $150 a stock or you will get a fine and a very high (90%) tax.

Also, China just unofficially (read: not enforcing but framework is in place) rolled out international taxation like the USA this year. How to enforce? IDK. But there's going be a major fight over this between the US.

In other news, I managed to talk to a few folks who survived the hyperinflation in the Republic of China (1939-45). And a few things that I thought was noteworthy of sharing:

1) Gold/silver was king for large transactions, but also easiest to get confiscated under an "'isims" (We're all sons of the patriots now!).
2) The most inconspicuous trading material and bribe material was a bag of sugar. You could trade a bag of sugar for a gold bar. It was explained to me that it was inconspicuous enough to trade, with plausible deniability for use if caught, and could be easily hoarded/produced without drawing suspicion.
3) Beneath the bag of sugar was either a bag of tobacco, alcohol, or opium (In our days weed)
4) Then after that was food, ammo, firearms
5) Appear as poor as the same people around you unless you want free redistribution of wealth.
6) Expect old grudges and ethnic rivalries to be an issue again. If you're married in an inter-ethnic (American version would be inter-racial) or inter-religous marriage you're gonna be in the shit with the community most likely.
7) If you have a rare skill, expect to be pressganged by a local warlord.
8 ) Blood runs thicker than water. Doesn't include your SO's side of the family.
9) Setup someone to watch over nighttime. Night time raids by neighbors who hate you stupid reasons or raiders were common
 
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I hope you faggots bought some GME yesterday.
because we're going on a ride
Rising quickly? Time for a nice halt to break the back on that pesky momentum.
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While I think its still too volatile and risky for me from that other post I made damn I wish I had some GME right now
my one regret is not having a bank that lets me deposit all my money into whatever batshit insane get rich quick scheme that works at any given time
i will unironically buy some tendies to eat in celebration
 
Also, China just unofficially (read: not enforcing but framework is in place) rolled out international taxation like the USA this year. How to enforce? IDK. But there's going be a major fight over this between the US.
That would be huge, given how many are in Canada and Australia. A ton of them would do anything to renounce their Chinese citizenship,
 
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