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Re:u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania by shyn3 on Friday January 29, 2021 @06:15PM (#25964097)
Wsb can remain irrational longer than the market can remain solvent. That was a comment by a poster which I find funny.
Re:u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania by northern-lights on Saturday January 30, 2021 @12:31AM (#25966472)
Not quite accurate.

It's - WSB can remain retarded longer than you can remain solvent.

Re:u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania by somerandomness on Friday January 29, 2021 @06:29PM (#25964246)
I believe the term is “retarded”
Re:u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania by Rapzid on Friday January 29, 2021 @08:21PM (#25965039)
Until Monday when the bills are due and their wives(let's be honest, this crazy train is the T train) discover their bank accounts are empty.
Re:u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania by fakedang on Friday January 29, 2021 @11:41PM (#25966142)
But what about the wives' boyfriends' accounts?
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Re:u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania by dang on Saturday January 30, 2021 @12:54AM (#25966615)
Could you please stop posting flamebait to HN? We've asked you before. Also, comments like the last bit of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25873304 are bannable offences on HN for obvious reasons. Please don't do anything like that again.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful. You've also posted good comments, so that should be doable.

Re:u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania by rubinelli on Friday January 29, 2021 @09:26PM (#25965391)
Funny, but it suggests the market hasn't learned anything from 2008.
Re:u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania by jdminhbg on Friday January 29, 2021 @06:19PM (#25964138)
This is a common aphorism, attributed sometimes to Keynes: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/09/remain-solvent/
Re:u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania by girvo on Friday January 29, 2021 @06:34PM (#25964282)
Right but the WSB one is inverted.
Re:u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania by markrages on Friday January 29, 2021 @06:31PM (#25964254)
It is a funny spin on that aphorism.
Re:u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania by rualca on Friday January 29, 2021 @07:07PM (#25964565)
I'm not sure you understood the web saying.

Its meaning has nothing to do with Keynes' quote. It's instead a clever play on words that refers to the recurrent accusation (and subsequent meme) that WSB are a bunch of autists/retards who don't have any idea of what they are doing and thus are doing it entirely wrong, and the defiant reply from the WSB crowd where they state they are ready and able to continue doing it for far longer than what hedge funds, who are throwing rivers of cash at the problem, are able to withstand no matter the cost.