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Globalism's Latest Shitshow: Their Crap Ain't Selling Anymore
2025 Apr 5, 4:11pm 6,064 views 107 comments
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HeadSet
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2025 Apr 5, 9:12pm
HeadSet
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2025 Apr 5, 9:12pm
DeportLibtards says
How? Margin calls happen when a stock price rises when someone shorted that stock.
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WookieMan
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2025 Apr 5, 9:24pm
WookieMan
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2025 Apr 5, 9:24pm
HeadSet says
People borrow on margin. It's cheaper to borrow for stuff from your own stocks. Shorting is part of it for sure. But tax free dollars at 3-4% interest is cheaper than income tax. Plus stocks ultimately appreciate over the long term. You don't have to reinvest in stocks. Could be a boat, a car or a house, annual income, etc.
How? Margin calls happen when a stock price rises when someone shorted that stock.
People borrow on margin. It's cheaper to borrow for stuff from your own stocks. Shorting is part of it for sure. But tax free dollars at 3-4% interest is cheaper than income tax. Plus stocks ultimately appreciate over the long term. You don't have to reinvest in stocks. Could be a boat, a car or a house, annual income, etc.
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Misc
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2025 Apr 5, 10:07pm
HeadSet says
Most of the amounts on margin nowadays are the Hedge Funds. They probably pay about 5%. You're right about individual investors on margin, rates are too high for them.
Read the small print at the bottom. The Hedge funds borrow tens, hundreds of millions and some probably billions. Schwab doesn't really cater to them. For Schwab it's RIAs (they tend to be long only and no margin).
Good to know, but rates are higher than you think:
Most of the amounts on margin nowadays are the Hedge Funds. They probably pay about 5%. You're right about individual investors on margin, rates are too high for them.
Read the small print at the bottom. The Hedge funds borrow tens, hundreds of millions and some probably billions. Schwab doesn't really cater to them. For Schwab it's RIAs (they tend to be long only and no margin).
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Patrick
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2025 Apr 5, 10:21pm
Patrick
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2025 Apr 5, 10:21pm
I just had a debate with a Chinese-American friend who moved to Singapore a few years ago for a good job.
He kept saying that a country like China which exports manufactured goods globally has an advantage of scale, and therefore lower per-unit costs, and I kept saying that American industry doesn't need to be global and we don't care about what it costs to produce something in China.
At one point he said that Americans get cheap TVs from China, and I said that's nice, but those TVs cost a lot of Americans their jobs, so they're really pretty expensive.
He kept saying that a country like China which exports manufactured goods globally has an advantage of scale, and therefore lower per-unit costs, and I kept saying that American industry doesn't need to be global and we don't care about what it costs to produce something in China.
At one point he said that Americans get cheap TVs from China, and I said that's nice, but those TVs cost a lot of Americans their jobs, so they're really pretty expensive.
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Everywhere, not just on PatNet. And the basic gist of it is:
1) The globalists and their Minions are crying Chicken Little because something for realz is happening that is bringing their means of ass raping us to an end or at least seriously limits it.
2) Part of that, they are pushing the same old bullshit 'free trade' narrative.
3) But NOBODY is buying it. Furthermore, even the least articulate/educated ppl even seem to catch some crap the globalist bullshitters post and use it to rip 'em a new one.
My X feed is filled with them. It is awesome to behold.
This one is a tad more on the sophisticated side than what I just described, but is my fav AND IS representive of what I just said:
4) We are even seeing what I call 'mini-manifestos' being posted by ppl -- myself included -- who had bought into the Globalist Bullshit now openly admitting that they were wrong and calling it what it actually is.
Example: https://patrick.net/comment?comment_id=2164721
5) I am seeing this from the Left. From the Right. From ppl I can't stand. From ppl I respect. From ppl I disagree with on certain things but agree on others. From ppl who I would normally wouldn't see on my feeds at all. From ppl not even on any feeds because they aren't online like me.
6) LIKEWISE, I see the bullshit response from ppl I either a) never heard of before or b) ppl I always knew were bought off - like Senator Grassley. The real stupid ones in my view are those like Bill Krystal who is jumping on this bandwagon simply because he hates Trump.
They are only shooting themselves on the foot.
I don't know for sure if the tariffs will work as advertised. I do believe, however, that they will work a lot better than the screaming globalists rant. In fact, I -- and all the aforementioned others -- see that they are actually in fear that they will actually work enough to fuck with their free trade scam.
This thread is to talk about that. The various other tariff dedicated threads have already started doing so. So maybe this is a little late.
But let's see..