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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (139070)2/7/2018 7:25:02 PM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 218073
 
re <<I think most SI threads went dark after 2008>>

... i did not pay attention, but if your observation correct, then perhaps many folks got hurt and/or tired of the share market

re <<Even the poliitical "Trump-Only" threads have dropped to very low volumes.>>

... if correct, possibly because folks got tired of the political theatre

re <<This may herald a resurgence of recent real world conversations>>

... have been part of e-mail of ~35 folks that has been engaging since the 90s and is still active

re <<or perhaps instead an enveloping insularity where people want no communication with those who live outside their nation's borders>>

... i have no feel for this angle. watching. would imagine folks 3D activities trumps (verb) on-line dialogues unless on-line dialogues generate goodness; but at zirp / nirp, goodness are difficult to come by without recalibrating risk-tolerance which many wisely refrain from playing