Did I mention that fluoroantimonic acid is 20 quintillion times stronger than 100% sulfuric acid?
Now that will clean your system and channel your inner Chakra!
Do shots! You can mix it with a little cinnamon because it's on the bitter side. But don't worry, you won't notice the bitterness after about a half a second.
By the way, if you boil vinegar, it concentrates the acid and makes it even more harmful to ingest.
You'd probably be better off drinking a glass of fluoroantimonic acid. It's can dissolve glass. So obviously it dissolves all the toxins in your body. Same reasoning.
Kiss your teeth goodbye. Vinegar is an acid. It will destroy your teeth over time.
Also causes low potassium and bone loss... essentially dissolves your bones a particularly bad problem for older people because they are more prone to get osteoporosis.
Can cause stomach issues.
Can be dangerous if you have an insulin related problem like diabetes.
Also interacts with some medications.
A lot of popular baloney on the Internet, but bad idea and few of the benefits are supported by studies.
Straw man argument. Who ever said there is a law that stock prices have to go up. You are giving a (flawed I might add) rebuttal to an argument I never made.
It's not hard to explain why the markets are up now.
The world has trillions of dollars in investable assets. That includes both billionaires and people with $59.82 in their bank accounts. When you add up hundreds of millions of the "little guys" it adds up to a lot of money.
The median net worth of American households is about $122,000. A portion of that is liquid net worth. When you have liquid assets, you have to store them somewhere. And it's an axiom of economics that people will choose to store their money where they perceive it will have the best return for the amount of risk they are willing to take.
Right now the interest rates are at al all time historical low. You earn virtually nothing on your money if you have it in a bank. On the other hand, if you have it in a relatively safe dividend paying stock, you can earn as much as a 7% dividend plus the chance of appreciation.
Millions of people have decided to take the risk for the extra reward, or they can't live on the low interest they earn in other investments so they turn to dividend paying stocks instead. So a gusher of money has moved out of fixed interest investments such as bank accounts and bonds, and into the stock market. That creates more demand for stocks and more demand relative to supply drives up stock prices.
This is a natural process, not a "manipulated" market.
Now, you can argue that the interest rates are low due to economic manipulation by the government. That's a legitimate topic. But that doesn't challenge the legitimacy of rising stock prices.
No one is saying that there isn't a chance that stocks will have a major correction at some point. Stock markets go up and down. That's what they do. It can happen at any time. The point is that they are not controlled by some mysterious genie behind a curtain pulling levers. That's a myth promoted by the enemies of capitalism. There are market based reasons why stocks go up and down and the reason they are up now is that they are the only game in town for those with investable assets.
If the market drops 40% quickly,theres a very grave, even fatal reason for it.
So?
Where else are you going to put your money if that happens? Socialist Venezuelan bolívars? with a 500,000% inflation rate where you need to double your money every 4 seconds just to keep up with it?
It doesn't matter how far down the American stock indices fall, the only thing that matters is how it compares with other investments. It's only the RELATIVE performance that matters. And as all of the history of the US stock markets has demonstrated, there is no better investment in the long run that the US stock markets. It doesn't matter if they are up or down. They have always been the best place to invest for the long term.
The only investment that is worse than investing in the US stock market is all the other ones.
Is it also true that the stock market is being controlled by some sort of entity?
Depends on what you mean by "controlled."
If you mean is it regulated, then the answer is yes. In all countries that have stock markets they are regulated by their respective governments.
If you mean is there some master puppeteer in the sky pulling the strings that control the prices of individual stocks the answer is no. Prices are largely determined by the principle of supply and demand based on millions of individual investors who buy or sell stocks.
Somebody reminded me the other day. It used to be where if the stock market was up, gold was down....or vice versa. Now, we have both up.
This is a controversial topic. The popular lore says that gold is inversely correlated to the stock markets which is a fancy way of saying that when the stocks are up gold is down and visa versa. But the best studies on this issue show that there is almost no correlation at all between stocks and gold over long periods. So that's why you observe periods like the current one when both are up at the same time.
From 1964 to 1983 the Dow went down year after year with out stopping for 19 years. That's about half of a persons working life!!!!
Completely false.
Here is a chart of the DOW from 1964-1983. The green indicates that the DOW was up that year, the red indicates it was down. The top line is a 40% increase. There were 13 years when the DOW was up and only 7 when it was down for the year in that period including 1975 when it was up almost 40% in a single year.
Companies sell stock to raise money to use in their businesses. After they sell them, the stocks continue trading on the "secondary market" where one investor can sell them to another investor. When you buy stocks in the secondary market, the original company doesn't get any of the money.
The stock market and individual stocks are in general a forward looking indicator. In general the price of a stock is driven by the future OUTLOOK for the underlying company to make profits. The more profitable the outlook for tomorrow, the higher the stock price today.
But sometimes, such as is the case with the company GameStop, which is probably the news that provoked your question, the price is not driven by the potential for future profits, but by artificial factors. When that happens it is more like gambling than investing. The people who played the game of buying and selling that stock were gambling and the price was not based on any fundamentally sound measures of the company's profit potential. I don't advise getting involved with that kind of stock unless you are a sophisticated investor who understands the risks and mechanisms of the game.
Nahhh... the most important understanding I had in my investment career, the one that made me wealthy was that if you cannot receive good returns investing in the US stock market over the long run, your money isn't safe anywhere. I've always made a lot of money buying US stocks when everyone else was panicking and selling. If the DOW dropped to 8,000 that would probably be the best buying opportunity in the history of the stock markets. I would put my last dollar into it.
What drives the stock market is profit motive. Everyone has a profit motive. That's what drives the entire economy. Everyone wants to make more money.
Investors invest in stocks hoping to get profitable returns on their investments. It's a similar motive as taking a new job hoping to make more money or putting money in a bank that pays more interest. Hundreds of millions of people, organizations, pension and retirement funds and companies own stocks in US companies.
What happens if the DOW index falls to 8,000? Some people will lose a lot of money and others will make a lot of money. That's what always happens when the market falls. In the past history of the stock market, those people who held onto their stocks through such declines were generally rewarded by their stocks again rising even higher than they were before. You should not invest in stocks if you cannot hold on through the dips. Stocks have always provided excellent returns for those who held them for a relatively long term.
The general rule in investing is that more risk comes with POTENTIALLY more return. Of course since there is more risk that means that more return is not GUARANTEED.
With bank account and bond rates near zero you can make a case that in the current economic and government fiscal environment it is more risky NOT to have some stocks in your portfolio than to have them.
I've been a licensed AR operator since the mid 60s. And my grandfather was an AR operator in 1915.
We already know that you are prohibited from using you license to commit a crime. Like they have to tell us that? No kidding. Anyone doing that deserves what they get.
I have some equally as shocking news for ARRL and the FCC. Talking about politics is NOT A CRIME.
Furthermore, the FCC has no legal authority to prevent AR operators from doing so. To do anything to infringe on an operators right to do so is a violation of their First Amendment rights under the US Constitution.
Just like the rest of the deep state the FCC (and the ARRL I might add) is trying to parlay this opportunity into a fascist purge of free speech. I hope the AR community doesn't let them succeed.
The way to have peace isn't to ban talking about things, it's to ban people with this mental disorder. They are the ones with the out of bounds issues, not people who simply want to engage in the exchange of ideas.
I don't understand why people can't just mind their own business and let other people talk about anything they want to. Why do some people have to be such busybodies and have to control everyone else?
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