• ripcord@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Once the stock market plummets there will be actual pushback.

    If that ever happens. I’ve been waiting for it to crash since Trump 1.

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      21 hours ago

      For 20+ years it’s been (de facto) against the law for the stock market to go down. The only exceptions are pump & dumps to keep the poors out, but otherwise any drop in our glorious free market will be manually corrected by Uncle Sam.

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      22 hours ago

      7 stocks make up about a third of the value of the S&P 500. Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla, Alphabet, and Meta. A crash could happen very suddenly if investors become skeptical about AI’s viability to actually create a profit.