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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/54086658

For the first time, US residents can now invest in memecoins through traditional brokerages. Trading will only get stranger from here.

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[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can we beat Argentina's speedrun time to crashing our economy with bitcoin?

I think we can.

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

From functional economy to broke and busted to begging the US for $20,000,000,000 to keep that busted economy afloat in 2 or 3 years.

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Twenty trillion? Good grief.

That is…. Impressively bad, but I think we can top it! At this rate….

[–] martinb@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 4 days ago
[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 3 points 4 days ago

'functional' is stretching it I think, were they not on the edge of defaulting again?

Not that they might not be still, I haven't seen apolitical economic info on them recently.

[–] jaykrown@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

It's fitting, the stock market is a fucking clown show.