News this week that inflation eased more than expected in October solidified the view that the Federal Reserve is done with its most aggressive rate-hike campaign in four decades.

And that could be a boon for the stock market and your 401(k).

  • Ooops
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    171 year ago

    You shouldn’t dismiss those as imaginary as money doesn’t pop out of thin air. All those gains need to be created by real workers being exploited harder elsewhere.

    • Flying Squid
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      121 year ago

      When tech companies that have never made a profit are still being traded for significant amounts of money per share, I’d call it imaginary numbers.

        • Flying Squid
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          91 year ago

          “I’m confident that this company that has never made money will make money someday, so I’m going to pay $30 a share for it” still sounds like it’s imaginary money to me.

          • @[email protected]
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            1 year ago

            That’s because you don’t understand how new and growing companies work. You don’t show a “profit” if you invest your revenue back in the company.

          • @iopq
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            11 year ago

            No, it’s called expected value. Amazon never made a profit for decades until it did.

            • girlfreddy
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              31 year ago

              Bezos opened Amazon in 1994, took it public in '97 and in 2003 it earned its first full-year profit. So 9 years to be exact.

              source and source

              • @iopq
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                01 year ago

                I mean the fact that it didn’t have a profit for many years after that. Until 2017 it was essentially 0 profit because Bezos kept reinvesting the money back into the business

      • @Poayjay
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        51 year ago

        I prefer potential money. Still imaginary, but “could be” money.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      The numbers are imagined and have a weak relationship to how many ppl get exploited, but the system as a whole does make people exploit others.