@ModernInvest If long-term predictions are accurate, probably only 1,000. However, like many out there, I will continue to accumulate for the foreseeable future.
🚨NEW: Here are some key quotes from my interview with @BlackRock CEO Larry Fink on the economy, @BillAckman and the $BTC Spot ETFs.
🚨"The economy is in a very good position and will get stronger."
🚨"I believe I could have been more literate when I was talking about ESG .I was talking about sustainability, I was never referring to the other letters."
🚨On Ackman's approach to reforming higher education: "I commend Bill in what he's doing...but this should not be a major component of how we move our economy forward."
🚨On $BTC Spot ETFs: "If you’re fearful of your government, or worrying your government is devaluing the currency, then you could see this as a great potential long-term store of value. It’s like digital gold."
🚨"It is a ledger, but it’s an international ledger that’s cross-border. It’s bigger than any government."
🚨"The advent of the Bitcoin ETF is an example that we’re legitimizing this asset class."
🚨On the possibility of an $XRP spot ETF: "I can't talk about that."
@markvlaskamp This situation is similar to Tide where they are building their own dry cleaners and laundry services. When did the strategy of competing with the businesses that buy their products get added to the playbook of all of these companies?
My checking account was overdrawn, again.
I looked at the ATM machine, staring at the screen that showed a negative, which was certainly not very positive.
Ever had that feeling when you walk up to checkout, you hand over your card, they swipe it, and you hear that beep? You know the one. The beep that says, “Sir, you are broke and this thing isn’t worth the plastic it’s printed on.”
I still sometimes side eye the little credit card approval machine making sure each transaction goes through. Because when for so many years they don’t, you keep a little PTSD with you that one day again, they won’t.
My first job out of college paid me $36,000 give or take. Money was scarce. I lived with roommates (ahem, my parents), and worked in a padded cubicle on a call center line at The Vanguard Group.
Good ole Vanguard. I’m pretty sure my first corporate job was where dreams go to die. It was such a party that two of my 20-something coworkers started taking anti-depressants to deal with the anxiety.
Anxiety from what, you ask? Being a cog in the machine, I think. We logged into a computer the second we started, and we logged out for every bathroom, lunch, or “off the phone” break.
If there was a matrix in the real world, we were plugged into it. Headphones straight into computers that tracked every word you said. Bosses named Ron with coffee breath that peered over your shoulder. Cafeterias full of fluorescent lights and plastic trays. It was the American dream turned monotonously nightmarish.
Then the real fun started.
I was a 21-year-old taking calls during the financial crisis about, “Why did you and Vanguard steal all my money!” These calls were heartbreaking and largely from retail investors who didn’t realize that the stock market could take a nosedive and bring your retirement with it.
But the routine continued. Wake up every day before the sun, pull on my scratchy cheap suit, slide into my cubicle's rolling chair, and pretend to smile at the “How was your weekend?” banalities.
I can still feel how time slows there. I’d actively stare at the clock on my screen wondering how the minutes painfully dragged between the hours of 3 to 5pm. I started to understand those taking anxiety medicine. My skin would crawl as if it could also feel my life slowly draining away. I started to hear myself say things like “TGIF” and “It’s 5 o’clock somewhere right.” Just shoot me.
I think hell might look like an underpaid corporate job. If so, I’ve been there… and I’m never going to go back.
@markvlaskamp I see that and raise you all with linens. What a pain to do but it was my first commercial PUD customer that I gained and completed my first delivery this morning.
Let me make this clear if SBF isn’t arrested and charged with fraud, wire-fraud, theft, and possibly money laundering before and instead gets to spew out his bullshit narrative, our system of justice has been compromised. @ewarren you claim to be for the little guy, where are you
$HBAR did an ICO
$ALGO did an ICO
$QNT did an ICO
$IOTA did an ICO
$XLM did an ICO
$XDCE did an ICO
$VET did an ICO
$DAG did an ICO
$ETH did an ICO
Only $XRP didn’t do an ICO yet is accused of being a security.