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I don't know why you are asking about pedophiles and sex trafficing - The Dow is over 50,000 right now, the S&P is at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq is smashing r
by blitzar 7mo ago
I don't know why you are asking about pedophiles and sex trafficing - The Dow is over 50,000 right now, the S&P is at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq is smashing records. Americans' 401(k) savings are booming, thats what we should be talking about.
- nine_zeros 7mo ago[dead]
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- gbil 7mo agoit was 50k in February but 45k today, S&P down to 6300 from almost 7k in February and the latest 401(k) reports are from Q4 2025 so your numbers are based on months ago before the Iran war.
- gipp 7mo agoHe was sarcastically paraphrasing earlier deflections from the administration
- simtel20 7mo agoThe parent comment is quoting Pam Bondi doing evasive maneuvers a couple of months ago
- SilasX 7mo agoAnd somehow expecting everyone will get the reference.
- mrits 7mo agoThere are a huge amount of people that spend their entire life on reddit worrying about politics
- SilasX 7mo ago... and comments requiring the reader to be that way too should be downvoted/flagged. Look at the replies it produced: troll mission accomplished, "productive conversation" not so much. At the very least, they could have put the comment in quotes to indicate they're quoting someone and it shouldn't be read at the object level. Edit: Seriously? Am I wrong here? Are you all really okay with Poe's Law-ifying HN, where people post comments that are easy to read as serious when they were intended as ridicule of the person who said them, and the comments erupt in confusion and flames? That's not what we should be expecting out of HN.
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- IAmBroom 7mo agoYou're not wrong. "All the cool kids know" is a BS way to post.
- avaer 7mo agoI wouldn't would shelve it under "politics", it's not what politics meant just a few years ago. And I don't think the people you're talking about would have been political before politics became a bag of memes.
- schmidtleonard 7mo agoAs opposed to posting on HN complaining about reddit, which is where the real money's at? Nah, this shit was dank enough to make it into popular culture. We have: 1. The shamelessness absurdity of using "market is up" to deflect from a pedo scandal 2. The fact that the market said "nope" and tanked immediately after Bondi tried to lean on it
- reedf1 7mo agoBelieve it or not; it is an enormous luxury to be able to ignore politics.
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- gbil 7mo agoSorry guys I don't follow US politics in such depth to get the sarcasm here. Well played by the OP in this context.
- JKCalhoun 7mo agoA bit of humorous auto-tuning of the hearing: https://youtu.be/Q71Xb1Sd86M https://youtu.be/Q71Xb1Sd86M
- franktankbank 7mo agoholy shit
- cosmicgadget 7mo agoEvasive maneuvers or calling the top perfectly?
- johnnyanmac 7mo agoIt wasn't about finding a plausible excuse, it was about running down the clock. It should be as bad as not answering a question, but this admin isn't going to impeach her easily.
- juliusceasar 7mo agoSo, they will now start acting on those pedo list? Oh wait, they have started 2nd Epstein War to distract from the same list.
- JKCalhoun 7mo ago(Cue the autotune, "The Dow is over Fifty Thou…") Thank god I am still able to laugh at something during this administration—if only occasionally.
- schmidtleonard 7mo agoI've heard a few traders refer to it as "The Bondi Top" -- she really top-ticked it to perfection. We all wish she hadn't.
- fmobus 7mo agoIf only this recession would make some pedos be punished...
- grafmax 7mo agoFunny how 401ks can make members of the American public think the stock market is really about them. In capitalism, assets follow a Pareto distribution. A small minority hold the majority of assets.
- WillAdams 7mo agoYeah, it was a big con to get folks to think that what seemed to them a huge amount of money meant that they were participating in a meaningful fashion. I've never gotten anyone who is educated in economy/finance to provide a reasonable answer to the questions: "Is the world economy large enough to support a meaningful number of people regularly investing in it, arriving at an amount able to support a comfortable retirement, and then draw said money out on a regular basis? What percentage of the population can be supported thus? What is to be said to that percentage whose participation would exceed the capacity of existing financial markets?"
- ericmay 7mo agoWell, in part you are asking about the world economy. Most of the world doesn’t have 401k retirement vehicles, good access to financial markets, or the spare funds to save at all, whether it’s in stocks, bonds, or other investment vehicles. So the reason you haven’t gotten an answer is because your question doesn’t make much sense.
- bilekas 7mo agoA 401K is just an investment in indexes linked to your pension, there's nothing stopping everyone putting their own money into an index themselves. The question makes sense, how many people could the market support if everyone was investing and not spending.
- lotsofpulp 7mo ago>how many people could the market support if everyone was investing and not spending. I think the more salient question is how many people could the market support if everyone was consuming and not producing. Not producing as in the goods and services that people want such as clean toilets and food and nursing home care. Or not producing the kids who will go on to produce the aforementioned goods and services.
- everdrive 7mo agoIt's a quite baffling argument on Bondi's part regardless. As if I wouldn't care about prosecuting sex offenders merely because my 401k was doing well.
- alsetmusic 7mo agoI mean, the people with REAL money and power clearly think that way because it's been working.
- Herring 7mo agoIt's consistent with the "profits over people" attitude that has been prevalent since slavery and feudalism and probably much earlier.
- vkou 7mo agoYou forgot to mention that gas prices have never been lower, and employment has never been higher.