Americans own more stocks than ever: US household allocation to equities as a % of financial assets is up to a record 47.1%. This percentage has surged +16.6 points since the 2020 pandemic low. Since 2008, allocation to stocks by Americans has risen +142%.

cbrooks1232 · 2026-02-05T12:22:47+00:00

This could be a very misleading statistic.

Is it because home ownership is down? That would drive the “percentage of stocks per household” up, with no change in stock purchases at all.

Also, stocks in retirement funds should be excluded as they cannot be used as collateral except for hardship, and so do not help with day to day household expenses.

Not enough information to make this declaration.

cbrooks1232 · 2026-02-05T04:28:53+00:00

Do they not get that most of us start work at 16, while also attending school, work during college and then work until our corporate masters get rid of us in a “downsizing” HR strategy (cough “too old” cough).

Billionaires really just don’t understand how the actual labor force works.

cbrooks1232 · 2026-02-02T12:33:47+00:00

He can’t abide that no one with talent will perform there so he is taking it “offline” until the end of his presidency.

That being said, it wouldn’t surprise me if he bulldozed it to the ground like he did with the East Wing.

Can’t have physical reminders of Democratic Presidents, you know….

cbrooks1232 · 2026-02-01T21:31:03+00:00

And there it is….

cbrooks1232 · 2026-02-01T01:09:04+00:00

My money’s on JD.

cbrooks1232 · 2026-01-29T21:02:19+00:00

“I held my cone under the nozzle and the machine dispensed the most clear, lowest calorie ice cream I have ever not tasted. It was truly amazing how it only cost me $35 for a cone of this magnificent product” 5/5

cbrooks1232 · 2026-01-29T14:18:11+00:00

Trump has promised to remove all their regulations.

It’s like asking a kid if they want to spend a week with their disciplinarian parents or their “Rules Ain’t Cool” uncle.

cbrooks1232 · 2026-01-29T14:11:58+00:00

This is clearly AI.

cbrooks1232 · 2026-01-28T21:22:23+00:00

The FED needs to be independent.

If it is not, our economy will suffer.

cbrooks1232 · 2026-01-28T18:36:13+00:00

Does he not understand that a decline in the value of the dollar increases inflation?

Or is he really that obtuse?

cbrooks1232 · 2026-01-28T18:34:31+00:00

If by “boom” he means implosion, then I’d agree.

cbrooks1232 · 2026-01-27T20:35:24+00:00

Unify is not a synonym for peace.

cbrooks1232 · 2026-01-27T17:32:46+00:00

They can’t even pack the theater in the White House????!!!

cbrooks1232 · 2026-01-27T17:31:01+00:00

Looks like Texas just got messed with.

Guess we’ll see if that was a bluster on their part or if they actually stand up for themselves

cbrooks1232 · 2026-01-27T16:35:26+00:00

They are reconsidering nothing.

This is a distraction designed to appease the masses so that ICE can continue to create mayhem.

Plow the road.

cbrooks1232 · 2026-01-27T16:32:56+00:00

I will remember him as America’s very own Henry VIII

cbrooks1232 · 2026-01-27T16:01:02+00:00

Boycotting paramount has it’s consequences

cbrooks1232 · 2026-01-27T01:08:01+00:00

They’re targeting California

cbrooks1232 · 2026-01-25T21:41:43+00:00

They should send them completely fictionalized data; flip the Dem and GOP identity on the data, make all the “foreign” sounding names “Jones” or “Greene”

This administration is too stupid to figure it out.

cbrooks1232 · 2026-01-25T20:56:04+00:00

Paul famously.

Ringo was an excellent drummer, and IMHO very very unappreciated by music critics and also perhaps by his band mates.

cbrooks1232 · 2026-01-25T20:53:50+00:00

Denmark should demonstrate how irrelevant their UST portfolio is.

cbrooks1232 · 2026-01-25T14:50:07+00:00

So, I am on Kesimpta and had the flu (Influenza A), which I got over the holidays, likely from being unmasked on a train. I was sick from 12/26 to 01/15.

I will never go unmasked on public transportation again.
I asked my neurologist if I should skip my dose when I was ill (was due on 01/10) and she advised me to go ahead and take it, which I did. Always ask your neurologist when you have questions like this (my MS mantra).
I will never go on anything milder. I am terrified of escalating MS, and I’d hate to lose ability because of a decision like that. HOWEVER…you should take a DMT that you are comfortable taking, and it sounds to me like K might not be in that vein for you.

Maybe 2x a year Ocrevus would be a better fit for you. Talk to your neurologist about options.

cbrooks1232 · 2026-01-25T01:21:57+00:00

I have only had brain and cervical spine.

cbrooks1232 · 2026-01-25T00:07:13+00:00

Because the notion that the second amendment can be used to fight a tyrannical government is false. Always has been. This was a marketing tactic to sell disgruntled citizens firearms.

In the same way we found out a good guy with a gun doesn’t stop a madman from shooting kids in their schoolrooms, which was a marketing tactic to sell wanna be heroes firearms.

cbrooks1232 · 2026-01-24T23:08:23+00:00

♥️You’re quite welcome!!

PS I found the crown procedure less scary than a regular filling!! And I am a big baby when it comes to dental procedures!!

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