Sounds like many an article I have read, or skimmed really. I can't tolerate them!
That said, I have exactly zero dollars invested in stocks. Once upon a time I did. When I really needed it, which was at the same time a great many of us needed it, it wasn't there. Also, no matter how I tried to find mutual funds that invested along my lines of interest, a year or two later I would find lots of stuff I couldn't condone in my protfolio, such as war and medical stocks. I don't have the interest to research individual companies for myself.
fair enough, I don't research individual stocks anymore either and feel like this research is difficult to get real information on because just like with everything else, the media is in on the scamming of the common man when it comes to valuation and especially hype. It's kind of like that one finance guy that works for CNN or something that is always pushing certain financial advice and so many times, most of the time, what he says to do is wrong. Think about it though: If some rich folks out there really wanted to rip off the general public legally, they could just hype some particular stock and then quietly sell their own shares. It happened with Tyco.
It probably happened with the Trump tariff turnaround. I'm out. I don't want to have anything to do with government influenced investments, they are too risky.
I'm not going to argue with that. I do enjoy how the MSM kind of abandoned their constant talk about how Crypto is a ponzi-scheme though. all their attempts to blackball that choice by the people has failed. Now they decide to only talk about it when it is going down, which is fine. Myself and anyone else I know that is involved in crypto don't give a damn what the MSM has to say about it
I find what they say about it amusing. It highlights that nearly everything they tell us is designed to fool us in some way, if not downright out and out lies.
and the stock market is one big ponzi scheme, so what's the difference?