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@michael-andreuzza what was the exercise asking you to do again?
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when i click on the arrow to do back to the top i get error 404?Unintended consequences of sanctions.
Canadians have lost trust in their banks as account were frozen. Wouldn’t freezing central bank accouns do the same for whole nations?
A word of warning for the fragile, the interview is hosted by Glenn Beck.
The value of hard currency is that it is accepted everywhere. What to do when the world’s reserve currency crumbles? How about hard stocks like TSLA? Just a thought.
BTW, Saddam Hussein and Colonel Gaddafi were taken out because they threatened the PetroDollar, Saddam proposed selling oil in Euros and Gaddafi in Gold Dinars.
Canadians have lost trust in their banks as account were frozen.
Only the criminals who couldn’t make bail. You might want to move your money to Russian banks?
 Now they will be limited in their power to the size of their jail cell.
Our banks are fine.
The nonsense level is growing.
What is a “hard stock”? And why would TSLA qualify?
If not wanting to listen to a person who has a long history of exaggerating and being heavily one-sided makes me fragile, not sure how exactly to take that. But… ok. Personally I prefer hearing from pundits who are a bit more… rational and grounded in reality.
Perhaps Glenn would prefer we fight this with mortars and missiles rather than with sanctions. Perhaps he’d rather risk a nuclear WWIII. I think most the other countries would agree. The impending death of the dollar is being exaggerated. But hey, that’s par for the course for some.
not sure how exactly to take that.
In times of stress, humor is a helping hand.
I do tune out some people who have never contributed anything worthwhile but it’s good to hear from all sides and then decide. In the linked video, Glenn Beck is the host, the views are the guest’s.
Let’s face it, the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency is a huge advantage for the US. News and opinions about attacks on this valuable asset surely count as Macro Economic.
Personally I doubt there is an endurable economy powerful enough that can replace the US dollar as the world currency for now. I firmly believe that the CCP is shooting the Chineses economy in the foot. Look at the crap-hole Russia is in.
What is a “hard stock”?
To me a “hard stock” is one that has been paying increasing dividends for decades.
Hard as in hard currency.
An investor’s stock as opposed to a trader’s stock. The stock of a company in a great market or better yet, in several great markets that will paint “S” curve after “S” curve on the price chart, not a one trick pony that for lack of new ideas starts empire building instead of innovating. A company with pricing power, no 10% customers, better yet a huge number of smallish customers. A company with a verifiable Total Addressable Market (TAM), not just pipe dreams. A company with easy to understand products, easy to track sales volume and revenue. A company aligned with the issues of the times (global warming, climate change, air pollution, energy, labor markets, high tech). A company with outstanding leadership. A hard stock is a buy and forget stock.
AAPL after Steve Jobs’ return to Apple, is a hard stock. Most Saul stocks don’t qualify because they sell very complicated products or services. Saul is successful because he has the uncanny ability to turn on a dime, a trait most of us don’t have.
Discussed at length at the NPI board. A growth industry for sure but there are no great companies worth investing in. It’s essentially a commodity market.
Tesla is building Dojo, a super computer specifically designed for AI to train neural networks. There is speculation that in the future AI with Dojo might become a Tesla service, a future “S” curve.
The difficulty in this industry is understanding the products. There is quite a bit of leapfrogging going on.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb of Black Swan fame rates biotech ‘A Good Black Swan industry.’ By this he means that some companies will hit the ball out of the park but we have no clue which ones will do it. This is best left to angel investors and venture capitalists. You have to buy the basket, not just individual stocks.
As of now I have no idea which drone company, if any, is worth investing in. Most likely existing companies will add drones as one more product line.
As noted above, the most important aspect of humanoid robotics will the their artificial intelligence. The robots on assembly lines are pretty dumb. Amazon makes great use of robots in their distribution centers, another example of users getting the most benefit from technology.
Like with drones I don’t know any investible providers. Tesla uses graphic simulations to automate the training of neural networks.
Same as drones and virtual reality.
While Tesla’s current major business is EVs, it is vertically integrated and tries to make the best use of batteries and solar panels. A future “S” curve.
Robo taxis? A future “S” curve.
Gaz has better info here.
There are some Big Data stocks on Saul’s board. Same issues as cyber security.
With the exception of metal parts for airliners (jet engine parts) 3DP has not lived up to its billing.
At the end they ask for suggestions. They omitted the most obvious, Electric Vehicles!
This market is well defined, the objective is to transition from ICE to electric. Most of us understand cars. Shipments are tracked in great detail. Unlike cyber security and others we can actually test drive the product! Tesla has pricing power, they just raised prices again. Elon Musk is a communicator. EVs have the backing of governments, Chineses cities need to get rid of the SMOG and it’s very difficult and expensive to get license plates for ICE vehicles. Gas prices in Europe are sky-high which encourages buying EVs. While EVs are the current “S” curve driver, Tesla is preparing other “S” curves, most notably energy and robots, and on a smaller scale insurance and AI.
One of the biggest objections of Tesla bears is ‘The Competition is Coming!’ The only reason the competition is coming is because the incumbents have finally realized that EVs are the future and they have no choice but to get on board. I did not invest in TSLA until after their Battery Day (Sept 2020) when it became clear that the EV technology had Crossed the Chasm. How did I know? The competition was coming!!!
Tesla has the goal of producing 20 million cars in 2030, a growth rate of 50% starting in 2021. That would give Tesla a 20% or