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In March 2025, I sold most of my American stocks that were sitting in my Canadian TFSA from before I moved to Germany, and converted the cash to Euros which the
by eigenspace 9mo ago
In March 2025, I sold most of my American stocks that were sitting in my Canadian TFSA from before I moved to Germany, and converted the cash to Euros which then went into a mixture of European stocks, and interest earning accounts.
While some of those American stocks saw some pretty good gains over the year that made me feel some FOMO, when you account for how much value the USD lost over that time period (and how well Rheinmetall performed), I definitely came out ahead. But I would have done it even if I had lost some money.
For me, this was mostly about insulating myself from Trump's erattic behaviour, and retaliating in my own very limited capacity for the threats he was making against Canada's sovereignty.
- actionfromafar 9mo agoIt's a shift. I hear more and more people talking like this. The beancounters will follow too. You can only grift profits so far before something breaks and the US federal economy has set a course for full grift ahead.
- metalman 9mo agoand because of all the restrictions on imigrants, the only ones still trying to get in are hard core grifters, trades are aging out, H1B is getting thrown out along with there tech skills, tourism must be fucking weird right now, lots of people will be avoiding any work related travel to the US as it can hardly be sold as a "perk" and horror storys abound. Cant tell for sure, but it does seem that there are less americans around in Canada right now, or it could be they are "blending", but wooooo!, are they ever getting an ear full, anywhere, anytime!
- wolvoleo 9mo agoTrue there was talk of a workshop in the US at my workplace and I informed them from the start that I would be unwilling to attend. It's in a super blue state but no. We have a lot of people in the US including leaders and some at the meeting were irritated because it draws attention to the issue they're trying to pretend doesn't exist, but I don't care.
- toomuchtodo 9mo agohttps://finance.yahoo.com/quote/VXUS/ https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/VXUS/ 5 year chart
- eigenspace 9mo agoCould you explain what you want people to do with this information, or what point you are trying to make with it?
- wolvoleo 9mo agoYou mean the threats he is making. Only last week he posted a picture with Canada under a US flag (as well as Greenland and Venezuela)
- eigenspace 9mo agoIm well aware. But I was explaining a discrete action I took in the past, in reaction to a thing that was happening then.
- wolvoleo 9mo agoAh I see, sorry