That’s the thing, when will it be put to work? 
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Would the resetting of government debt happen in such a way that central banks would be prepared to buy 50/75/100 year interest rate papers at 0 interest? In this scenario, shorter interest rates could be raised. This would lead to increased government spending as interest expenses on old debts would grow. Central banks would compensate governments for the resulting deficit by buying those super-long interest rate papers. This way, shorter rates would be “unlocked”. Am I on the right track at all, or am I completely wrong?
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The machines there are coded to instill fear/greed in us and exploit it. And other machines are coded to exploit the weaknesses of the first machine. HFT speed robots account for 50% of the market volume, large funds perhaps 30% (some algorithms, some fund managers), and the rest of us are small.
In the life of HFT robots, inflation means nothing more than opportunities to move the market in their desired direction. Machines don’t panic, but they can profit from the panic they cause.
Something like that. If one assesses it somewhat realistically/nihilistically, the arrangement will be made quite complex, so that it’s impossible for the mainstream media to explain it to the average citizen. But the end result is precisely that the principal and interest of the state’s old debts are gradually cleared and left to gather dust on the central bank’s balance sheet. To what extent, one can speculate. If MMT (Modern Monetary Theory) thinking gains more traction, this could be attempted indefinitely into the future.
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How many thousandths of a percent do tracksuit panic sales cover in the US stock market’s daily trading volume?
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Flannel shirts maybe one hundredth. 
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Does anyone have good recommendations on where to start if one wanted to educate themselves on this topic?
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I don’t understand anything about them either, I just have to trust my instincts 
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Advise me, if I want to reply to a thread and at the same time move my reply to the coffee room because my reply does not have enough content, how does that transfer happen in connection with the reply?
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This is my way, I’m not entirely sure it’s the best, but I hope this helps:
- I go to Remedy’s thread and highlight Timontti’s message, then the “quote” text automatically appears and I click on it:
- Then I copy the text with ctrl-c, once it has appeared in the “reply” window below:
- After that, I come to this thread, for example, and click this:
and press ctrl-v.
I hope I answered your question? 
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Thank you.
What can be done with the arrow that appears after clicking “reply” in the top left corner? That arrow looks like a “forward” function, but it doesn’t do that. I thought that’s exactly how you could send your message to another thread. There’s a menu there that opens up some? functions.
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I would understand that when you clicked on the “reply” button next to my message, at that point you are replying to me in this thread, but then this “reply window” opens, and at this point you can still change it so that you reply to the thread, but NOT directly to my message. Then, of course, you can choose to send me a private message or the rare option where you can start a new related thread.
I’m not a pro at these things, but I hope I’ve clarified the matter a bit and someone can still elaborate/correct if needed.
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Quoting myself here.
It’s a bit difficult to stick to the bolded part when the portfolio has been in the red every trading day this year (I know the year hasn’t even properly started yet).
The next move would be to stop staring at the stock market until February/March. Read the reports and look at market outlooks at the company level then.
Wishing all forum members a good start to the year.
P.S. In the quoted message, the portfolio value was 91k; now it’s 93k. So it’s not bad, even if it’s quite red.
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One way is to open the message section by replying to a message, after which the box remains active at the bottom (on a phone, you can drop it down by pressing “Done” at the top of the keyboard in the unfinished text). After this, you can navigate directly to the coffee room as normal. When you then press “Reply” in the message section, the system will ask if you want to reply to this thread or the original one.
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Press that link/chain icon, choose copy and then paste in the thread you want to reply to. Like this:
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They say that one should explore Finnish nature every season. Winter is the best, the more frost and snow, the better. This is, by the way, like directly from the Investor-Rookie’s (Sijoittaja-Alokas) Christmas calendar window 
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… speaking of the outdoors, Rivian and its trucks for adventurers come to mind.
I’m less surprised by the collapse of this wannabe discount-Tesla stock. Rivian’s stock has fallen 50% from its highs. 
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I couldn’t find any discussion about this fund here using the search function, so here’s a new bar for long-term stock pickers to clear.
https://www.morningstar.com/articles/760208/revisiting-80-years-of-sloth
If “buy and hold” is your favorite investing strategy, then this fund has minimized buying and cranked up the holding to the max. Zero new stock picks and only a few forced sales in 80 years sounds impossible, and it’s probably not a very profitable strategy. But when you’ve initially picked a few superstars that are STILL in the portfolio, like Procter & Gamble and Union Pacific, those few bankruptcies and weaker performers are quickly forgotten. In addition, mergers and acquisitions have brought new companies into the fund over the years, one of which, less surprisingly, is Berkshire. Not a bad performance. The link provides a list of the original holdings and their evolution over the years.
Few individuals get to invest over an 80-year period, so there’s no point in comparing oneself to such a fund. But perhaps your own tax-loss harvesting and portfolio rebalancing look different when compared to a fund that is willing to sit on its hands and its portfolio through cycles, wars, crises, and hardships.
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And since we’re in the coffee room, there’s still at least 90% way down. Maybe not quite that much for Tesla, but still 
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Can someone briefly tell me what’s going on in the world that’s causing so much red? I’m backpacking in Mexico and haven’t bothered to follow the news. Of course, I could just stop checking my portfolio for the duration of the trip…