Recent comments in /f/wallstreetbets

shbtc t1_je7tq8z wrote

I thought fed said they’d continue to insure over 250k at banks whose failures might hurt the economy (too big to fail). I’ll bet the big banks with all their political control are sure their money falls in that category. If nothing else, their massive deposits brought FRC into that category.

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robbinhood69 t1_je7tkg9 wrote

FL a weird one, they have buyback authorized for like 30% of shares outstanding but they don’t actually have nearly that much cash on 👋

Cramer just turned bullish on them today so naturally i bought puts, im assuming some bad news is imminent. I will cover on the bad news tho, there is a very real floor to this not far below these prices (maybe 30 to 50%)

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Paradox68 OP t1_je7t9kp wrote

Where are you pulling this number? 50,000 employees? What departments? Which employees? Do you even understand the logistics that must go into layoffs to ensure it’s a good move for the business? Do you even understand the amount of money that is spent researching that data before they even come to a decision?

50,000 people out of a job for what? I agree that “trimming the fat” occasionally is completely necessary, if not, mandatory for a business to succeed, but you can’t just look at it like it’s a singular data point. “Well on average the employees there make $100,000/yr so if we cut 50,000 jobs we’ll be up $5,000,000,000 a year in revenue!” Has too many fallacies and oversimplifications to comment on.

There are a lot of other, more effective measures a business can take on such a massive operational scale to cut costs.

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MicroBadger_ t1_je7sw30 wrote

Unemployment number has several categories. U3 is what's commonly reported in the news and looks at people who are unemployed and looked in the past 4 weeks. U6 doesn't include that time restriction, includes people who've given up looking either cause they are discouraged or have left the work force but plan to come back at a later date, and includes part time workers who want full time work.

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Paradox68 OP t1_je7sgld wrote

I’m just wondering what his deal really is. Is $15k such a small amount of money to this person that they wouldn’t even bother reading the rest of the post (which had nothing to do with my position anyways, I was just doing that to cooperate with the rules of the Sub)

Or maybe they’re just so bad with their ADHD that two paragraphs is simply impossible to sit through.

All in all, it’s really sad because I know for a fact that they did read the entire post, they’re just trying to seem snide and witty, at my expense. It’s sad we can’t just have a discussion.

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