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I hear Des Moines has a low cost of living, tremendous job opportunities and all the amenities of Chicago or New York.
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The idea of being a 40 year old whose primary experience is the 'gig economy' and who still lives with roommates gives me hives. Like you can be 40 years old and working menial labor, but this guy sounds like he went to sleep when he turned 18 and just woke up and welp, nothing's changed.
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greazeball posted:I hear Des Moines has a low cost of living, tremendous job opportunities and all the amenities of Chicago or New York. Just don't live anywhere near any of those job opportunities or supposed amenities and you're golden.   The idea of paying $2,000+ a month to live in motherfucking Iowa is giving me the shakes.
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Sundae posted:The idea of paying $2,000+ a month to live in motherfucking Iowa is giving me the shakes. All cities that aren't dying are like this. Rents in Houston and other historically affordable cities are also really drat high now.
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greazeball posted:I hear Des Moines has a low cost of living, tremendous job opportunities and all the amenities of Chicago or New York. Jastiger re-reg spotted
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What is your opinion on gas quality at cheap stations i.e. Arco vs places a dime more expensive
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It's the same gas, it might very well come out of the same tanker truck.
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Alan Smithee posted:What is your opinion on gas quality at cheap stations i.e. Arco vs places a dime more expensive Sometimes better, small no name stations occasionally sell 100% gasoline but you're never going to catch Shell or Exxon doing more than 90% on a good day.
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Midjack posted:Sometimes better, small no name stations occasionally sell 100% gasoline but you're never going to catch Shell or Exxon doing more than 90% on a good day. You mean ethanol? Or are you insinuating a mass fraud?
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Oh boy that game show dude thinks he's gonna see some relief due to the "tax cuts this year" For gently caress's sake, Ricky. You absolutely cannot afford to "hold on to a dream as long as you can pay the roof over your head and bills" because then you end up being 39 years old and without, to quote him, an "actual career." He's literally wasted his entire 20's and 30's...without even enough savings to cover this year's tax bill. Still living with random roommates at that age. What a clusterfuck. KingSlime fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Jan 12, 2018 |
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baquerd posted:You mean ethanol? Or are you insinuating a mass fraud? He means turning over their tanks.
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Twerk from Home posted:All cities that aren't dying are like this. Rents in Houston and other historically affordable cities are also really drat high now. I was really excited to come back to Houston after traveling for 9 months and be welcomed with tons of new apartments finishing being built and their abundance of "3 months free" deals. Then Harvey went and hosed that one all up. I came back at the worst time.
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Content!: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/7ppwhq/purchased_a_vehicle_in_2016_way_over_my_price/ quote:My age: 32 I wanted to read more about the sell off of his terrible investments, but haven’t seen a post about them yet Cacafuego fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Jan 12, 2018 |
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Jan 12, 2018 01:53
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Was he betting against the stock market or something?
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Cacafuego posted:Content!: edit - goddamnit, reddit, no one suggested bitcoin speculation.
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it's r/pf, generally posters there are grounded rational arists especially in comparison to the rest of the site's demographics (what the gently caress happened to reddit the last few years, jesus christ)
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cowofwar posted:How many comments before someone suggests buttcoins? Bitcoin is so 2016, check the comments for Ripple
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Moneyball posted:Was he betting against the stock market or something? large stake in Juicero and horse investments
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I wonder how much he lost on those investments. Hard to believe he lost a ton in one of the largest bull markets in history.
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KingSlime posted:it's r/pf, generally posters there are grounded rational arists TRUMP
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KingSlime posted:it's r/pf, generally posters there are grounded rational arists You say this and normally I would agree, but when I clicked on his username to see if he’d made any comments with more clarification, it turned out that the previous three advice posts helpmeplease99999 made were titled “My best friend whom[sic] I am in love with is sleeping with her neighbor’s husband and it’s killing me”, “I found out my coworker and best friend has been sleeping with her boss for years and now I’m creeped out and can’t work”, and “I decided to part ways with my best friend because she’s a cheater and home wrecker but now I have no one”. Also he somehow went from being 26 to 31 in half a year, presumably because he stopped lying about his age when he started talking about how much of a disgusting whore she is instead of the perfect girl who just can’t see him for who he is.
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He also aged 5 years in 1 month. What a great person
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Drunk Tomato posted:I wouldn't suggest anyone move to Reno or Vegas but maybe he has family in the area or something. Why not move to some burned down rust belt city, rent a room for dirt cheap, and try to find work there? Vegas and Reno are good places if you don't have a lot of marketable skills since there's so many service sector jobs. And Vegas is pretty cheap if you don't have a gambling habit. Reno is more expensive because of all the economic refugees from the Bay area. Both are way less horrible than the Rust Belt. I grew up in Ohio and now I live in Nevada and I would NEVER consider moving back.
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Moneyball posted:Was he betting against the stock market or something? Has to be biotechs.
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Was the BWM thread around in 2008? I can only imagine the stories we will see once the market has a downturn.
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opposable thumbs.db posted:Was the BWM thread around in 2008? I can only imagine the stories we will see once the market has a downturn. I am continuously looking at the financial shitstorm that's brewing. It's big, it'll be nasty, but it might take a couple of years for something to go horribly wrong. We will get some great stories though.
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Devian666 posted:I am continuously looking at the financial shitstorm that's brewing. It's big, it'll be nasty, but it might take a couple of years for something to go horribly wrong. We will get some great stories though. Is it anything besides stagnant wages, ever-increasing cost of living, automation in a country that thinks jobs = morality, and the fact that some large percentage of the country is unneeded by the economy except for their role as debt slaves?
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That plus the increasing number of financial and other institutions shovelling increasing amounts of real money into buttcoin and craptocurrency speculation.
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Blinkman987 posted:Is it anything besides stagnant wages, ever-increasing cost of living, automation in a country that thinks jobs = morality, and the fact that some large percentage of the country is unneeded by the economy except for their role as debt slaves? But hey man. Donald is going to make those Medicare scumbag freeloaders work and fix everything.
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Sundae posted:Just don't live anywhere near any of those job opportunities or supposed amenities and you're golden. Funny story, most of those have been empty, save those rented out to people working for Wells Fargo, Principal, or EMC. Half of why they exist is the big companies funding the Greater Des Moines Partnership's bid to make it into an attractive place for business, and that has included a wholesale revamping of downtown over the last fifteen years. Tons of new housing, a new grocery store last year, and a few million in art projects, mostly because one of the biggest property developers was on board and wanted to push the rents up and drum up business. :P Des Moines can be GWM, though if you don't pick literally the most expensive possible place in the city to rent. You can get a 3 bedroom house in one of the nicer parts of town for less than those 'flats'. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Jan 12, 2018 |
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Devian666 posted:I am continuously looking at the financial shitstorm that's brewing. It's big, it'll be nasty, but it might take a couple of years for something to go horribly wrong. We will get some great stories though. For watching train wrecks unfold in real time, nothing will ever compare to the GT Advanced thread about the iPhone 6. http://forum.thecontrarianinvestor.com/index.php?threads/gt-advanced-technologies-inc-gtat.69/ For people who haven't read this (and if you haven't you are in for a threat), the magic starts to happen around page 320. some dumbass who lost all his and his mom's money posted:Don't hate the player, hate the game. Anyway, I earned those shares, I bought most of them at around 3 before anybody even heard of sapphire screens, because I did my DD and understood their R&D efforts and that 2014-15 would likely lead to huge things and their technology would have value over time even if solar was in the tank. To invest basically all your net worth in GTAT at 3 when the stock is cratering and people are talking bankruptcies took some serious cojones but I knew this was a once in a lifetime opportunity and I would kick myself forever if I didn't go all in. Might have been slightly reckless and against all known investment strategies but with big risks, comes big rewards. That was posted probably a couple of hours before Apple announced they were not making sapphire screens and GT Advanced's stock plummeted. Don't hate the player, folks.
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quote:I am one of those that got hurt bad. I lost over 90% of my 25 years of retirement savings. I have still not recovered. I am working on preserving what little I have left for when I try to retire in 2 or 3 years. It looks like I will now have to look forward living off of social security for the rest of my life. But I think I have faired better than other GT stockholders. At least I didn't lose everything. To this day anytime I hear GTAT even mentioned I get a knot in my stomach. Purestrain BWM.
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Devian666 posted:I am continuously looking at the financial shitstorm that's brewing. It's big, it'll be nasty, but it might take a couple of years for something to go horribly wrong. We will get some great stories though. Please just wait until I can afford a down payment on a foreclosure.
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Krispy Wafer posted:For watching train wrecks unfold in real time, nothing will ever compare to the GT Advanced thread about the iPhone 6. oh my god. same guy posted:I bought 20K more at 12.95 yesterday because I am an addict I guess, if broke 12.50 would have sold them though. Just trading shares though as will probably sell them pretty soon. I am holding my large position for years but I do trade some when opportunity knocks, this was a risky one but seemed a little overdone to me, but pretty surprised on strength today, lets see if holds. quote:You and I have the exact same investment philosophy. quote:I am still here, I got some out on the way down but still had a lot on 10/6 and lost most of my fortune, but still have enough to live comfortably and a wife who loves and understands and knows I can make it back in time which is all that matters. As you can imagine I don't really want to talk about it and will be joining the class action suit which will probably lead to almost nothing. His 415k shares were worth about 5.4 million in profits for a good 6 month period in 2014. Always listen to your mother, folks.
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I can't find any price data for GTAT from that day. I really need it to get off on that guy's misfortunes.
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kimbo305 posted:I can't find any price data for GTAT from that day. I really need it to get off on that guy's misfortunes.    (Source: Business Insider) Cassius Belli fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Jan 12, 2018 |
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kimbo305 posted:I can't find any price data for GTAT from that day. I really need it to get off on that guy's misfortunes. https://www.historicalstockprice.com/?symbol=gtat Looks like it almost hit around 18 a share right before the iPhone 6 announcement and dropped to 12 the next day. Which means A LOT of people who should have gotten out could have. But hey, the lower it goes the more I buy. Within a month it was worth $1.15 a share. EDIT: the best part is during this time, the stock market was having one of it's greatest bull runs. Like they could have invested this money anywhere and made bank but they decided to risk it all on one company. And the best quote from the aftermath of the iPhone announcement: quote:at least we got a free u2 album Krispy Wafer fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Jan 12, 2018 |
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Haha I read GTAT once every few years. It's great stuff.
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opposable thumbs.db posted:Was the BWM thread around in 2008? I can only imagine the stories we will see once the market has a downturn. This is magical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INmqvibv4UU
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