@flyingpandaz So as a thought experiment that might be useful to the group, let's take a hypothetical investor, single TRPer who either owns his own place or rents and doesn't want to own. Has a job that pays his day to day bills, etc. Has an emergency fund, and contributes to retirement funds, etc.

Say our hypothetical investor has $50k/$100K/$250K free cash to invest.

How would you allocate those amounts at 20/30/40/50?

@MentORPHEUS To many of these corporations and conglomerates being friends/allies with China is much more beneficial than being enemies with them. Which is why we see so many corporations (NBA, Blizzard, facebook, microsoft and etc) willing to bow down towards China or at the very least try not to anger them.

Global economic domination by China is inevitable and instead of complaining, which so many of us in the west do too too much, we should accept the current reality and start taking advantage of the situation (China

@flyingpandaz Not implying, I am EXPRESSING that accepting Chinese money is now biting many in the ass. This is an economic shit test by China. Companies are not doing a good job passing it.

Now is a watershed moment. Will any company be the man standing in front of the line of tanks? Or will they all fold, silence and expel Americans from American stadia, and apologize to their ascending Chinese masters?

Worth discussing how individuals as well as small to large companies respond to this.

@MentORPHEUS Hong Kong protests are destroying their own country and economy. Fucking idiotic students getting swayed by masses with no critical thinking and long sightedness. I was just in Hong Kong last week and the very people that are suffering from all this are their own working class people. Mum & pop stores are closing everywhere, working class businesses are going bankrupt and tremendous amounts of money is being moved out of the country, and they're the one losing their jobs. Rich people are the ones that are able to easily move to different countries, which they are. Most of my partners and friends in HK are moving to Singapore or Malaysia, and guess what, they're moving their money out the country too.

Welcome to reality, don't fuck with the people above the food chain.

@MentORPHEUS So? What are you implying? Private businesses that seek profit and money are obviously going to follow the money (aka China).

the antisemitism is strong in these forums...

@TiberiusBravo87 I did a whole post about this on the financial freedom tribe. Here's a snapshot of the post. """ My suggestions will always remain the same to anyone seeking to be a millionaire:

1. Your priority will be to focus on getting a job that

@flyingpandaz Yeah. I don't want to quit my job, rearrange my life, and become a stock trader for a living. I just want an extra million to fall back on. Just point and say "Now, CainPrice!" and I'll go make a million and buy you some scotch.