14159th poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 11)

guh

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Breadings will continue until cholesterol improves

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I see the modlogs have a new post and always get disappointed that it’s just a self-ban and noone did anything of note

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who do you have beef with on fol to be excited over their potential ban

Noone, I just want shit to happen

Well as discussed in Initiative to Improve Modplay, you can easily achieve this if you’re not a coward

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Okay, but what if I am a coward?

L bozo

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My professor’s telling us about his bad luck in putting savings into the market.
Specifically about when he first did this on September 10, 2001.

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Awkward. What about 2007?

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He said he avoided that one but did put money in November 2019.

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The context was that he put money in the market on Friday.
Things have happened since Friday.

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Is it normal for national economies to see multiple recessions this frequently?

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Well I don’t think the one in 2001 cause a recession at all, but what came after did balloon a big surge of debt

So this isn’t exactly a recession; a recession requires poor performance over a long period of time. On average, we expect a recession once every ten-ish years.
But the level of volatility on display in the last year has been abnormal.

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Basically, GDP has to decrease two quarters in a row. Given that a quarter is 3 months, this requires six months of poor performance.
There are lots of ways to measure GDP, but a decrease usually means that businesses have pulled back on investment and/or consumers have pulled back on consumption.

Correction: once every eight years.
We’ve had twelve recessions in the 97 years that the stock market has existed.

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Good to know.

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i see the modlogs have a new post and shocked it doesn’t say “by personal request”

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didn’t the market basically return to previous levels shortly after?

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It did; it’s just kinda insane to invest money on a Monday and then wake up tomorrow to, like, that.

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