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Tech stocks set to wipe out more than $1 trillion as concerns deepen about the AI boom
(www.nbcnews.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2026
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It’s all funny money that never existed to begin with lol.
True, but as what happend in the dot com bubble, the middle and lower classes will pay. If you lived in a tech area during the bubble burst then, you'll know how bad this is going to be worldwide.
So what to do if I suspect a bubble is coming? Sell my investment funds and keep fiat? Buy gold? Buy merchandise to sell later? Buy real estate?
I have no idea how to prepare.
If you see risk being very high, make low risk investments: high yield savings accounts, CDs, bonds.
CDs? Damn I have a bunch of CDs with music, games. I'm gonna be rich.
On the real, I've heard the used CD market is making a massive comeback. There's something to be said about physical media in the age of internet becoming more and more scary.
I already have a ton of cds but I've been buying blurays and dvds lately. Gotta keep morale up after infrastructure goes down!
Bonds? Just not US bonds. Trump says he can take care of US debt with inflation, no problem.
My plan is just to cry.
Yeah, I'm fully disabled and dependent on my 80 yr old aunt working almost full time to provide housing for me in her home. When she dies I'll be homeless again. So crying seems appropriate 😭
Unless you’re retiring in the next 5-10 years, it’s probably best to stand pat or shift some % out of large-cap funds to mid-caps. But the old adage usually holds true: “time in the market beats timing the market.” In other words, pulling it all out is way harder to get right than just leaving it in.
(Your choice- I am not a financial advisor)
Depends how wealthy you are. If you're wealthy and even remotely intelligent this is where you make even more money. Wealthy people will diversify, they'll sell some of their tech stocks and put it into anything not related to AI. Be it oil or manufacturing or agriculture etc. Then they liquidate those stocks (or loan against them, depending on how wealthy we're talking about) to buy up tech stock when they've crashed. You then wait a few years and make money.
If you're not wealthy enough to do that put your money into something stable, like bonds. If you want to be sure you won't lose money (in the sense that the amount of money you put in won't go below what you put in, it can still lose value due to inflation) your bank probably offers term deposits where you let your bank reserve your money for a few years and in return they guarantee something like a 2% annual return on your deposit.
And if you're not wealthy enough to do that... You're pretty much fucked. Learn to cook and enjoy cheap meals, start budgeting right now, forget enjoyment and hope you don't get fired.
Me neither, hold on for the ride?
buy the dip (not financial advice)
OK I went to the store and bought some queso dip... Now what?
You got chips, too, right? ... Right?
D'oh! I knew I was forgetting something!
Enjoy the show
Buy bonds
(Probably not US bonds)
Not financial advise but I personally decided to keep my money in MSCI World ex USA ETFand some gold + Stoxx 600. For now it seems my strategy is working. Will see where we go from here
Gold not silver small portions is ok, bonds because different types are liquid govt backed interest, real estate is always good they don't make more land, staying liquid is ideal. The most money is made during down turns if you buy right. Don't time the market it'll never happen. Instead grow steady of buy whole under valued assets.
Pay down short term debt.
Build emergency funds.
Ohh absolutely, it was devastating to watch, and then to see corporations being bailed out because they were too big to fail. The big question is, is this really the start of a serious crash where the circle jerk of circular money pumped between 4-5 megacorps comes to an end, or do things really go crashing down from here. You need sanity to stabilize…the nuts have spun off the lugs that were holding the wheels of the economy to the hub…i think one wheel just wobbled a little…
I hope you're not excited for that to happen is what I'm saying. Even if you're not American, you will feel this.
Ohh absolutely not excited at all. Its a pending shitshow…I didn't vote for any of this and have already cast my vote to have all these idiots removed from office.
There won't be an AI bailout as with the auto industry and banking. AI hate is bipartisan and no national-level politician is dumb enough to throw public money at them. They're not a huge employment/manufacturing concern like autos and they're not the backbone of our financial system.
(And once again, I love your lug nut analogy, spot on!)
Greetings again 👋
Yah I agree, I don’t think it will be a traditional bailout like the auto industry though which was forgivable loans, I think it’ll likely come in the form of additional stock purchases by the US government, which is wild when you think about it.
No but they (AI companies and those claiming to be one including chip companies) directly influence the stock market, and this administration is having its day manipulating the hell out of it making a ton of money along the way. So if there is a way for the to make money on it, it will absolutely happen. Also the chip companies have national defense interests and so it’ a similar scenario as the DOD’s mission can not ever be hampered lol. The line must go up lol.
Ha! And thank you.
Trump loves him some AI bros, though. And could easily "justify" dumping shitloads of public money into them because using AI in the military (bad idea in the first place) makes AI a "national security priority".
and then will there be jobs?
You would assume so…but who knows. We have a wanna be dictator at the helm in the US that has the mental capacity of goldfish, so fiscal responsibility isn’t exactly this administrations forte!
I forsee layoffs instead of more jobs.
It is quite possible, the giant hiring spree during covid and immediately after was never going to last unfortunately. Maybe after the midterms things will change in a positive direction.
They are desperately trying to stave off the crash until Democrats have a majority so it can be blamed on the Democrats.
Ahh good point, it is certainly a method that works for them since they really don’t have much else to campaign on.
While that has worked in the past, I don’t think it’s gonna fly this time.
Optics matter and right now GOP are far more all in on AI, it’s also Cheeto’s halfway point, things crashing badly with Dems having some power won’t look like it’s the Dems in control.
The fact that the economy took a bad turn right when he came into office is an association that most people won’t forget.
Trump isn't the only American with the memory span of a goldfish, it is rather endemic.
What a terrible insult to goldfish.
It is, but there is no reason to be coy about it.
But can you be koi about it?
Man, there is something really fishy about your question? Lol
No, the billionaires will continue to hoard.
If you can't afford bread, you should just eat cake.
It was never even actual fiat currency. Just numbers in a computer somewhere.
Exactly, presumed value based upon future worth