Athlete hotties on twitter are all depending on men to win the bread while they sell lifestyle web sites.

 Technically, a patriarchal marriage can yield a doubling of income if the wife earns just enough to max out social security.  Then, you'd get a doubling of income from social security without both partners being equal.  It's just the 62 years before social security when the man would be the breadwinner.

The maximum for social security is a lot higher than it was 20 years ago & probably way beyond lifestyle web site income.  The doubling of income through marriage is a lot less attainable than it was 40 years ago.

Social security has reduced its payouts by increasing the threshold of the maximum distribution much faster than inflation.  20 years ago, it was $87,000.  Today, it's over $160,000 but the benefit is the same as someone who made $87,000 20 years ago. This is combined with a 20% reduction in benefits by 2035. 



If only the lion kingdom's stonks made $1000 every day for a year.  That's why lions are certain today's spike was a preprogrammed trade for a soft GDP report.  The hot GDP report will send future trades plunging on good news being bad.

As predicted, the Pow's rhetoric shifted from 2 more hikes being certain to 2 more hikes not being taken off the table.  Pow is still the maestro intent on keeping the halfway point between houses & garbage inflating at 3% while conducting the stonk market to higher gains.

Lions have pondered the timelines for the indexes doubling.  For conservatively invested animals, a doubling of the indexes won't yield much.  They could double in a year or 10 years.  It's better than interest, but it doesn't compound.

Lions originally did horrendously in individual stonks, 20 years ago.  Individual stonks have done better in recent years as index funds + the fed have become more powerful & everything has moved in unison.  Lions worry that index funds will behave more like individual stonks did 20 years ago & become dumpster fires as their trading becomes more active.  There just aren't enough index funds for them to diverge as much as individual stonks.  Perhaps 2 funds in the same index could diverge.  You could get Tesla vs. GM behavior between 2 of the same index funds if they're driven by high frequency trading.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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