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I just want to tell you folks the manipulation of this market. Perhaps I'm venting because I, too, am down a large sum today. But I've seen this time and time again and I've SOLD, taken the loss, and then regretted it months later.
Let me just tell you last earnings report for Amazon, the stock fell about 7% to $810s I believe it was, (8 10ish), and I recall people saying it was a joke and going back to $600s. Look at it now - it's $950.
Same thing happened with Tesla a few weeks ago. We saw a brief market selloff and Tesla dropped to $250. Now? It's $317.
Months ago I was holding FCAU (Chrysler) when the EPA scandal came out. The stock fell 20% that day and I held tight. Six weeks later it was back exactly where it was before the drop.
How about semiconductors? NVDA themselves had the President sell over 200k in shares back when they were around $13 a share lol. Doesn't mean NVDA was going down to $5's.
This is the way of the market.
AMD met guidance. AMD met earnings. They are on track to have a solid year. This is a complete overreaction, stop losses being triggered, and MM's running it lower, I personally think.
Do not give in to this manipulation. It completely sucks, I know. Today has been a very depressing day with my significant other telling me how depressed I seemed today. But it happens. This is the market. I recall someone told me "one day you're sitting in a jacuzzi sipping pina coladas and the next day you're on the floor taking gut punches." That's pretty much what it is. Remember why you bought in. Always remember that. Hold tight. It might get bumpy, but Lisa knows how to run this company.

Non Serviam posted:

I loving hate the term " influencer" . It's some rear end in a top hat on the Internet playing video games.

Proposition Castle posted:

I'm the full beard with the product advertised to reduce wind resistance.

Vox Nihili posted:

Asking about potential openings when a company isn't actively hiring (to your knowledge) is actually smart.

GoGoGadgetChris posted:

Personal Anecdote I am so sorry

At my old company, I sat in on an interview where the hiring manager asked the female applicant, "This job probably won't be worth it to you if you are going to take any significant time off in your first 3 years. Do you plan on having kids any time soon? "

Applicant: "I... don't think you're supposed to ask that kind of question."

Manager: "I did, though. Do you have an answer?"

Applicant: "I don't want to answer that"

He did not hire her. Eye opening though to see how the law doesn't actually do poo poo when people can just do whatever they want anyway.

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Looking through past tax records, my dad and I found out that my brother and I got $11,000 each (in stocks and bonds) from my late grandmother. Bringing this up with my mother, she said that the money was gone. Asking around, I discovered that the money was meant for college. Turns out my mother spent all $22,000 on court costs (and alternate medicine treatments which we didn't need) in an attempt to try to get my dad to pay for said alternative treatments.
I'm 18, and with college right around the corner I'm worried about what to do.
Edit: The only money I have saved is $3,000 from my job

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As the title says, I have been at my company for 3 years. It's typical office work and when I first started I was told employees would get performance reviews/annual raises every year. Well I didn't get mine the 1st year or the 2nd year. When I told my manager, he said he hadn't realized I didn't get one. He manages a team of 5 people and we work around each other so I know what his schedule is like. It's likely he was just lazy and forgot about it. He has time to walk around and shoot the poo poo with other people when it's not busy and it's starting to piss me off.
I know I should have said something the first year. It was my first real job and I was afraid of stepping on toes even though I know I deserved a review. Well, this is the 3rd year and a few of my colleagues had to practically beg him for months for a review. He never got around to it, and one of my coworkers went straight to the CEO who rectified the situation by giving her her annual raise. From what I heard, he was not happy with my manager. She didn't do the review but was automatically given the raise.
So now I am in a weird position. I have been bugging him for about a month now but all I get told is "probably next week". Do I step on toes and e-mail the CEO or do I wait it out and bug him until he gets it done?

Xenoborg posted:

Are the ingredient boxes like Blue Apron real cooking or the same frozen dinner stuff? I have a co-worker who insist he learned to cook from them. He seems also impressed that they are less than $10 a meal...

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

It seems that supermarkets could market a Blue Apron-like product that you pick up in stores for a fraction of the price.

Nail Rat posted:

If you don't like the random ingredients we send you, feel free to order another box.

EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:

I found this link which is both celebrity gossip and good financial advice so I enjoyed reading it quite a bit.

http://www.moneycrashers.com/cheap-frugal-celebrities/

Contrasts delightfully with Master P, who went from being worth an estimated $600M to bankrupt.

http://theboombox.com/master-p-forced-into-bankruptcy-court-over-240-000/

Sorry Master P!

pig slut lisa posted:

Leon how do you constantly come up with the best BWM stories

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

employees at a government agency

Non Serviam posted:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/07/19/frequent_flier_miles_scam_how_i_lost_1_350_by_falling_for_the_same_internet.html

BWM twice in the same week.

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I bought a flight ticket some months ago from a sketchy person promising me that he can get me the ticket on a discount. I took the flight and everything went well. Then I got a call yesterday from a collection agency claiming that they are investigating a credit card fraud and want to confirm if I boarded the flight. The amount they claim is $8k and want me to provje that I didn't board the flight.
What are my options here? Can I go to jail for unknowingly commiting credit card fraud? Should I talk to the collection agency and accept that I boarded the flight and am ready to pay whatever for not getting police involved? Please help! My questions are:
Should I talk to the collection agency at all?
I did pay for the flight to the agent who booked the ticket, but it seems he was a fraud. Should I agree to pay collections as well?
Can the collection agency notify police if I don't pay or talk to them?
Update: Location is Virginia

Jack2142 posted:

But Paul Allen never went to Harvard? (He went to WSU and dropped out).

pig slut lisa posted:

Working with the admins to see if I can get the thread title field lengthened for this

Krispy Kareem posted:

He can like still go back to school and take that final semester after his untreated mental illness gets treated, right?

I've known so many people who can't stand being anything but their own boss and they are almost all failures. A friend of mine lost his home and business and almost destroyed his family trying to be his own boss. Now that he's just another cog in the corporate wheel everyone is much happier, although ignoring his daughters for 10 years has had the expected effect on their behavior.

I love being a faceless entity. Corporate America, cover me with your darkness.

LLCoolJD posted:

I have learned that there are only two real emotions in life: love and anger.

Life is not as complicated as people make it out to be as long as you’re not lazy.

Life is actually very simple.

We are always mentally at either peace or war.

You show love to your friends in peace and anger to your enemies in war.

That’s it.

Peace or War.

moist turtleneck posted:

https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/869224678384050176

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

She's now complaining that she is very upset that the tumbling team, choreographer, and personal tumbling instructor all require cash or check and won't take a credit card.

She wants her ex-husband to cosign the loan because she can't get a personal loan (even with 104k a year in income) because she has too much current debt.

Told her personal assistant (32k per year) that you can't have kids and live on her (104k) salary.

*HER DAUGHTER IS 4*

Who is going to a traveling tumbling/cheerleading competition (the team goes to meets once a month all over the country and travel expenses are part of the dues upfront) to watch 4-year olds other than the parents of those 4-year olds and wealthy pedophiles?

Barry posted:

We should probably just move this thread to D&D and be done with it. Why can't we just post hilarious BWM schadenfreude to laugh at?

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/6em3h0/i_make_great_money_but_i_am_broke/


Later in the thread:


$2500 on food per month with a stay at home parent, lol

Paying for lawn service when you have 4 children, lol

22 Eargesplitten posted:

How new are we talking? I have never been in a truck or van that was as comfortable as my beat up old Subaru or Escort.

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So my fiance and I have decided that we are going to take the path less traveled and live full time in a camper. The campers we have been looking at far exceed the towing capability of my silverado 1500, so i need to upgrade to a 3500 dually to tow the 16000lb home on wheels. Putting it out there, my credit is god awful, under 630 and my attempts to purchase a truck have led me to monthly payments of 1200-1600. This is after a $5k downpayment btw. But Technically I could afford such payments, but id much rather not. Obviously. I could have my fiance co-sign, but that leads me to challenge numero dos. Financing a camper whilst financing a truck. I wanted to cosign with her only on the camper, and her credit is better than mine but not by much. She is planning on starting an online business selling art stuff and is also a real estate agent so iv thought maybe we could buy the camper through her business because its where she will be producing her products. Just an idea i guess.
Is there a strategy that we should be taking that would ensure we get both loans approved?
PLEASE HELP ME IM SO LOST
Edit: let me clarify, this will be our full time home, not a weekend toy. Its myself, my fiance and our pupper and two cats. A pop up wont cut it. We are doing this as an alternative to getting a morgage on a house, thats something we will do when kids enter the equation.

curufinor posted:

hosed up attitudes towards food in silicon valley:

My first year at Stanford i watched 4 separate dudes eat their first orange

All of them upper middle class like nearly everyone else, they were just hosed up enough so that they'd never eaten an orange

So i forced them to

I was not surprised at all by soylent

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

"But worst of all, I would be letting down my Youtube subscribers."

TheLastManStanding posted:

Barry posted:

I love how people trot out "but it's my dream car!!" to use as an excuse to buy some $25k Miata convertible or whatever. Aim a little higher, people.

Solice Kirsk posted:

Who among us, in a fit of passion, has not tried to set another person ablaze?

gregday posted:

Not strictly BWM, but I absolutely love that someone on /r/churning asked if paying a speeding fine with their rewards credit card codes as "travel"

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

A story about BWM horse ownership and somehow the horses themselves are the least BWM part.

CitizenKain posted:

Back in the day in my first job, I once spent most of a paycheck on a box of Magic The Gathering cards. Whole box of 5th edition was something like 50-60 bucks at the time. Got such poo poo cards out of it I think I stopped playing soon after.

Haifisch posted:

I was about to say I couldn't fathom spending that much a month, even if you're eating out literally every meal, but then I saw he's going to fancy places on the reg.

Even if he doesn't take up cooking, he could probably cut his food costs in half just by going to Panera or something instead of the bougie restaurants.

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[WA] Found hidden treasure in our new house. Do we have to give it back to the seller? (self.legaladvice)
submitted 1 day ago by bag-o-cash
My wife and I bought a new house and moved in a few weeks ago. We bought it from the grandson of the previous owner who was selling it as he inherited it in the estate. He was kind of a jerk during the closing process and we are just glad it's over and we no longer have to deal with him. It's a bit of a fixer-upper and we've been repainting inside. This weekend, I pulled off a coaxial faceplate and I found hidden within a ziploc bag with a few thousand in 100s folded up inside. I freaked out. We started looking in similar locations all over the house, and over the last couple of days have found lots of other bags in other locations - under the kitchen counter, behind a panel inside a medicine cabinet, under a loose step board in the garage, and several other places. We've found a lot so far, but I would prefer not to say how much, unless it matters legally. During the search, we also found a couple of guns, boxes of ammunition, a bunch of survivalist packaged food, and a backpack filled with clothes and first aid gear. We are still looking for more stuff.
Since we now own the house, do we have any obligation to inform the former owner of this? We had to clear out a lot of the old crap from the house and that was part of the problems with the closing and delays from the seller. The purchase was amended to include everything in the house because the grandson didn't want to clean out a bunch of the old crap. Obviously he didn't know about his grandfather's predilection for hiding money and guns or he wouldn't have added that clause in the purchase. I doubt he would have left this stuff here if he was aware of it. I don't want to tell him, but my wife has a bigger heart than I do and wants to tell him and let him decide. Lawyers of Reddit, what are we legally obligated to do here?

Noctone posted:

I must be an amoral shitbag because even if the seller had been a nice person there's zero chance I would tell them about it, let alone consider giving them a cut. Finders keepers, motherfucker.

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That was one of the reasons the closing took so long and was so painful. Our real estate agent had said that a bunch of the old property would be removed, but then the grandson was pushing back saying that we would have to do it ourselves. We had to get that written into everything that we owned all of the contents so that we could legally dispose of everything.
In your best guess, what would a lawyer say? Also, how do I find a lawyer who specializes in this? Would my real estate agent know someone? I am hesitant to bring it up to her too because the money is large enough that I'm afraid that she will want a piece of it, or am I being paranoid? I really don't want the grandson to get any of this because he was such a turd during the closing by not clearing out the house as promised, expecting us to do it for free on our own time, even before the house closed. I figure it's karmic justice that there actually was valuable stuff left behind that he was too lazy to find himself.