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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8600896" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yup! The stock market is a gargantuan Ponzi, and at some point it will burst. The reason it hasn't so far is that the govt keeps printing more money, which then has to go SOMEWHERE, and it goes on and on. Notice that the actual good investments, those are either things like real estate, or else private equity (which normal people are simply not invited to participate in). The 'bursting of the bubble' may take some quite creative new form that partially obscures exactly what happened, but the upshot will be that all the so-called 'equity' that is really unrealized gains will become non-fungible. Heck, it may even still earn dividends, at the current 50:1 (if you are lucky) P/Es that's a joke of course. What you won't be able to do is access the principle, it won't really exist anymore. Honestly, at this point, and I've been a very successful investor in a variety of instruments and whatnot in the past, 90% of my money is in equity in real estate at this point. It is a FANTASTIC time to be in debt too! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> And this may well be the understanding of anyone trying to raid a company like Hasbro. Load it up with debt, take the actual money off to someplace safe, and hope that super high inflation just lets them go along like that for a few years until you're well and truly far gone with the loot.</blockquote>

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