Shaking my head at everyone who gave me shit when I quite literally said people were going to get hurt by the GameStop stupidity.
(Since the 1st story is behind a paywall)
When my 13-year old, 20-something barber and 20-something bartender are all telling me about the same get-rich-quick opportunity, there are gonna be some bad endings.
Adults under the age of 30 have never really seen the stock market go down.
That’s pretty wild when you think about it. The market has had a near continuous rise young people’s whole adult lives.
“Whole adult lives.”
Jeez, the snarking by people who don’t read is tedious.
The funny thing is that I posted this after having had several conversations lately with young people who are “playing the stock market” who all but laughed when I said “it’s going to go down at some point.”
They truly couldn’t imagine it after years of it only going up.
Take the person executed last night: Dustin Higgs.
Higgs, another man and a woman were involved in the murder of two people. The trio had picked the victims up and taken them to a desolate area where they were shot.
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The reasons for the shooting were unclear. To make their case, prosecutors offered a deal to Higgs’ two associates: testify that Higgs had orchestrated the killing and they would be charged with lesser offenses.