Core, The S&P500 is up 533% over the last 13 years. Yes it's down 10% YTD, but the growth the last decade plus has been gangbusters. Surely your 401k and other investments can't be doing all bad?
The bubble is bursting this time. I don't have the right words for it...the market has been fake, or artificially held up. The repercussions from 2008 are coming. Stocks are manipulated, insider trading has been through the roof. US keeps printing and spending. We're going to come down hard but this time gas prices are also through the roof, I'm on a single income and I live in an area with defunded police yet limited self defense laws. It'll be ugly. This isn't depression its just a realization of what is to come.
Originally Posted by kml
Core - looking back over your first thread, I see you suffer from anxiety anyway. Remember, when it comes to the stock market, a crash for someone your age is a great buying opportunity.
Also, your anxiety is made worse by consuming all this negative media. Read your bible, then find a place to volunteer with those less fortunate. You might look differently at those homeless people once you learn how many of them suffer from mental illness, untreated addiction or are former foster children. Perhaps you could volunteer with a program that is trying to find them assistance to get off the streets. That's what Christ would do.
Anxiety has been a problem for me. It comes and goes in spurts. I'm coming to accepting it rather than fighting it and not a chance in .... that I'll try a pharmaceutical again. As far as helping others, the reality is nothing I will do will have much impact unless I think of something grand. The oligarchs and governments of the world cause so much destruction that me feeding a few homeless for a day just perpetuates things. Ive yet to think of something that can truly help the world peacefully and lovingly. For example, me cleaning graffiti in one area is negated completely for a lifetime after one protest. Picking up garbage is completely negated everyday when half the city cant find a garbage can 4 feet away. The gov banned plastic bags yet people now fly to space for entertainment completely negating lifetimes of emission prevention.
I hope to find something that can outweigh the negative to have a truly positive effect of the world.
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