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In reply to the discussion: Holy crap! Bernie Sanders is recommending we start a WAR!!! [View all]rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)they hang around they might get scraps. Of course you wouldnt advise anyone to play the nickle slots in Reno. How gouache. Let's "invest" our money like the Big Boys with one of the huge banks that make me feel so secure (they are backed by your tax dollars).
Again, when you buy shares in a company traded on Wall Street, you are not investing in a company. You are buying shares from another "investor" (read gambler). He is betting the value will go down and you are betting the value will go up. With common stocks you really dont own a portion of the company. Now you might say that if it is a "good solid" company then the value will go up if the company succeeds. The problem with that thinking is that there are a whole lot of Big Boys that know how to manipulate stock prices and company exec's that know how to manipulate the stock value. So millions of hard working Americans are riding the bubbles. Hopping to get lucky and buy in low and sell out high. Problem is the Big Boys know when the bubble is going to break so most of the small investors get hurt. Not all. And maybe you've been lucky so far. But buying common stock from Wall Street isnt "investing" any more than putting your bank roll on number 22. Best of "luck" to you.