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multigraincracker

(38,108 posts)
Tue May 26, 2026, 10:31 AM Yesterday

Markets are very high. SELL.

If the market crashes, cash will be king. Real estate and stocks will be dirt cheap. Only problem will be timing the bottom.
Either way, cash will be king.

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Markets are very high. SELL. (Original Post) multigraincracker Yesterday OP
Sure. Timing the market always works well. NoRethugFriends Yesterday #1
Markets are distorted by $2 trillion capex spending on AI bucolic_frolic Yesterday #2
Sell enid602 Yesterday #3
You might want to look at foreign currency. multigraincracker Yesterday #4
non-dollar enid602 Yesterday #8
People here have been predicting a crash for years and urging people to sell MichMan Yesterday #5
You're thinking like a sane person. Big mistake GreatGazoo Yesterday #6
Short term treasury bonds might work in that case. multigraincracker Yesterday #7
Micron Tech is up $150 today - 20%. Every day similar bucolic_frolic Yesterday #9

bucolic_frolic

(55,933 posts)
2. Markets are distorted by $2 trillion capex spending on AI
Tue May 26, 2026, 11:39 AM
Yesterday

I just watched a Scottish journalist interview Jeremy Grantham ... he's much more candid outside the US. Took Greenspan to task, epic and lovely, but also showed how these big events - Covid, war, AI, dotcom era - can distort markets.

I don't know where the top is. My modest shorts are underwater. Mostly hedged, out of stock funds.



Greenspan comments begin at about 22 minutes. Worth a couple minutes. Last ten minutes also, for his view of the world.

enid602

(9,762 posts)
3. Sell
Tue May 26, 2026, 11:40 AM
Yesterday

So I sell my house and investments. Maybe not the best time to hold a lot of dollars, given that the dollar itself might become worthless. Remember, the vast majority of dollars are held overseas. Once the dollar is no longer the currency of exchange, all those dollars come home, and they will be worthless. ‘A million reichmarks to buy a loaf of bread.’

enid602

(9,762 posts)
8. non-dollar
Tue May 26, 2026, 12:42 PM
Yesterday

I’ve been 85% in vested in non-dollar bond and stock mutual funds for years now.

MichMan

(17,433 posts)
5. People here have been predicting a crash for years and urging people to sell
Tue May 26, 2026, 12:05 PM
Yesterday

Eventually they might be right.

GreatGazoo

(4,730 posts)
6. You're thinking like a sane person. Big mistake
Tue May 26, 2026, 12:07 PM
Yesterday

The answer to the AI bubble has arrived -- the Space bubble!

If we look at 2008 or March 2020 as a model, the market will get bailed out or backstopped. Cash holders and mortgages will get squeezed. They are printing money like there is no tomorrow. Being in the market is the only way to avoid erosion and the impact of prolonged inflation.

Not advice but, cough, adventurous people are throwing money at space stocks (MNTS, RDW, LUNR, RKLB) to ride them up before the SpaceX IPO. Selling right before the IPO seems a safe bet. Holding beyond it less so.

https://seekingalpha.com/news/4596715-space-stocks-extend-gains-on-optimism-around-spacex-public-debut

If the market is this high with oil choked it should be even higher when the Strait opens.

multigraincracker

(38,108 posts)
7. Short term treasury bonds might work in that case.
Tue May 26, 2026, 12:13 PM
Yesterday

At least you can keep up with the inflation

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