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Americans Are Really, Really Bullish on Stocks

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  • edited September 9
    @Observant1
    100% equities
    I can't find where I posted 100% equities. Use SP500 for the stock portion.
    Remember, we are talking about a lifetime period with no change = B&H.
    This is no different than what some posters do on investment sites.
    They regurgitate essentially the same information (with minor intermediate changes) ad nauseam.
    The difference is that these people get paid and supposed to be "experts".
    Many predictions turn out to be inaccurate.
    However, longer-term "predictions" may be useful in setting expectations which can be valuable for planning.
    Unfortunately, there are no simple metrics that can reliably and consistently predict future market performance.
    Thank you for proving my point. I can show some of the best "experts" making huge prediction mistakes. The stock markets don't work based on expectations.
    Reading numerous articles which are deemed not worthwhile seems like an awful waste of time.
    That's exactly what many posters do on these sites, including me and you:-)

  • Gotta be right, no matter what. Reminds me of a particular Orange (Criminal) Doink.
  • The Serenity prayer
  • edited September 10
    FD said:
    This is no different than what some posters do on investment sites.
    They regurgitate essentially the same information (with minor intermediate changes) ad nauseam.
    Wow. If that isn't the pot calling the kettle black, I don't know what is.
  • Devo said:

    The Serenity prayer

    +1.
  • MikeM said:

    FD said:

    This is no different than what some posters do on investment sites.
    They regurgitate essentially the same information (with minor intermediate changes) ad nauseam.
    Wow. If that isn't the pot calling the kettle black, I don't know what is.
    Huh?

  • You don't think that FD "regurgitate[s] essentially the same information (with minor intermediate changes) ad nauseam." ?
  • Not really

    I find a lot of it informative

    Perhaps I don’t read enough financial journalism
  • Maybe you are too young for this saying:

    Hypocrisy
    The idiom “the pot calling the kettle black” is used to point out hypocrisy12. It means that someone is criticizing another person for a fault they have even though the criticizer is also guilty of doing the same thing

  • edited September 10
    Wikipedia explains it really well and provides some similar analogies. I’ve used ”the pot calling the kettle black “ countless times over the years. Because an overly critical listener might unjustly allege racial overtones, I’ve pretty much avoided it in recent years. Suspect it has fallen into disuse in recent years on that account.

    From the linked article:

    ”The pot calling the kettle black" is a proverbial idiom that may be of Spanish origin, of which English versions began to appear in the first half of the 17th century. It means a situation in which somebody accuses someone else of a fault which the accuser shares, and therefore is an example of psychological projection or hypocrisy.

    The earliest appearance of the idiom is in Thomas Shelton's 1620 translation of the Spanish novel Don Quixote. The protagonist is growing increasingly restive under the criticisms of his servant Sancho Panza, one of which is that "You are like what is said that the frying-pan said to the kettle, 'Avant, black-browes'."

  • MikeM said:

    Maybe you are too young for this saying:

    Hypocrisy
    The idiom “the pot calling the kettle black” is used to point out hypocrisy12. It means that someone is criticizing another person for a fault they have even though the criticizer is also guilty of doing the same thing

    Whatever could have prompted this
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