• dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    yeah, I personally ascribe to this view, and prefer index funds to alternatives like stock trading. My comment was meant more as a joke, implying the news is a reason to panic sell off Berkshire stock, lol - I don’t actually have any idea whether that’s a good idea, it’s probably not.

    (I would have jokingly said the same after Steve Jobs died about selling Apple stock, and indeed there was a dip in stock price after his death, but Apple’s market cap was $300 billion before his death and after he died it more than doubled to $900 billion by 2017.)

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      2 months ago

      Thats good. I try to use the opportunities like this to inform people a bit, because it is hard to know.

      The efficient market hypothesis is so incredibly useful, and saves people from hubris and bad investment decisions. It always grounds me when I think about other investments and financial decisions as well.