If your stocks go up you haven't made any money. You only make money when you sell your stocks.
Imagine you made 10 identical paintings. You sell 5 of them. Over time, the 5 that you sold become worth $10billion each. That makes your remaining 5 worth $50billion, making you a billionaire. However, this doesn't mean you have $50 billion in cash.
This also explains why its stupid to say things like "Bezos didn't work for his money." Bezos sold stock in his company, and the stock became worth billions. It has nothing to do with how hard he works.
Then when your stocks have go down you haven't lost any money. Just never sell them. No bailouts needed.
Camden Taylor
Bezos didn't even increase his wealth himself the stock market, meaning other people, valued his stock more highly, resulting in a higher net worth for himself. What is so hard to understand about that?
Julian Morgan
wow insightful thanks, also when you take profit you are simply moving into another asset. you never actually have money anymore since trumpbux and such
Brody Diaz
>stocks The bailouts aren't for stock prices you absolute dumb fuck
Brayden Sullivan
The profit comes from the general public valuing your stocks highly. There is nothing unfair about that. I don't know why it makes the bernouts so mad that people own things that grow in value.
Eli Sanders
my point is when you sell for usd, you are actually buying usd as an asset. aka investing in usd, which is no longer money in the traditional sense (arbitrarily giving it away to plebs now)
Jaxson Wright
I'm not going to deny what you're saying but the technical details of that far exceed even the basic knowledge that is lacking in this tweet.
In the case of banks it is. Banks legally need to be solvent to operate (have a positive net worth) while a company can be technically bankrupt (negative net worth, deeply in debt) and could still operate as long as it can service the debt.
Alexander Rodriguez
If they understood economics they wouldn't have been Bernie supporters to begin with.
Charles Thomas
addon: Banks own a lot of stock, if it goes down the bank becomes insolvent, it then has to stop while regulators decide what to do.
Bentley Morales
That is another example of the bailout money keeping the business operational and is not an example of the bailout being intended to maintain the price of a stock.
Kevin Morales
Too good looking for porn.
Jacob Johnson
Its connected anyway but people are too salty about stocks. People are very irrational, they love farmers but hate landlords, imagine.
Dylan Bell
>hurr i can't read It's okay. I'll break it down into little bite sized pieces so you can handle it. >the big four airlines spent $42.5 billion on buybacks between 2014 and 2019 >that nearly matches $50 billion the industry is now asking for [in bailouts]
Yes, it's gambling. You mad? Bezos and (((friends))) also astroturf a lot and inject some money to artificially boost stocks.
Gavin Cruz
Hey stupid I'll break it down for you. A company buys back its stock in 2014-2019.
In 2020 there is a government mandated shutdown due to a worldwide pandemic. Along with the shutdown, the government is giving bailout money to businesses to continue to operate. The stock buy backs have nothing to do with the bailout. The bailout money isn't going to cover something they bought in 20q4 you fucking clown. It's going to cover the lost income of the lockdown.
Imagine being so stupid that you can't even see how the bailout isn't related to previous year expenses.
Isaac Brown
>if you don't plan for any future downturn and instead buyback stocks it isn't your own fault when it blows up in your face Do you go bankrupt every other year because you can't plan five minutes into the future?
Xavier Barnes
>gosh why aren't companies holding enough money to operate for unknown periods of time without income such poor planning
really outing yourself as a moron bernout with no understanding of econ at all
>yeah i looked like an idiot comparing bailouts but companies should have saved all of their money duh businesses can operate indefinitely without income
Brody Scott
If you look at the hands, you can tell this picture has been substantially edited. Those are not just the same person's hands from different angles. The left one is clearly edited to look more feminine, as the right one looks more mannish and is likely the real hand.
Jackson Green
SOMEONE SOURCE PLEASE
Caleb Morgan
Uh, banks can just go into debt too
Levi Sanchez
the value of the shares issued by a company. "he owns 62% of the group's equity"
Aiden Brooks
Stop wasting your time talking economics with a commie leaf.
He's literally trying to advocate that airlines should have planned 5 years in advance for a completely unknown threat that would last an unknown amount of time.
By this same insane logic we should help no one that ever gets caught in any natural disaster.
Oh your house got destroyed by a freak tornado that hasn't been seen in your area in 20+ years? WELL IM SORRY SON I SEE YOU DECIDED TO REMODEL YOUR BATHROOM IN 2010.
Charles Butler
>Why don't Bernouts understand the stock market? They can't count.
Ethan Gray
>Why don’t...
You have to be 18 to post on Yas Forums junior
Logan Torres
And more to the point it was the central bankers who printed 2 trillion dollars who inflated the stock market - the very thing Sanders wants - a huge government printing money - is what contributed to Bezos making money.
Then add in that ALL the tech firms want more and more immigration to keep wages low. Sanders - unusually for a Jew - was hoenst about that some years ago and did not support open borders but as the Dems have gone far left he too has now fully embraced open borders.
If Sanders got in power the likes of Bezos would make even more money as wages crashed.
Only solution is national socialism in the end.
Justin Taylor
i've been trying to figure out the stock market for 31 years. you think bernouts can?
Aaron Clark
The most amazing thing is that they call Jeff Bezos unfair and selfish when the stock price of Amazon rises, as though Jeff Bezos is in charge of the price of Amazon and not the general public.
Jackson Brown
just get rid of the stock market or at least the way it's configured now. turn it into venture capital and when a company gets going stocks get bought back and poof no more.
