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Re:Fearing Losses, Banks Are Quietly Dumping Real Estate Loans by phkahler on Monday June 24, 2024 @11:43PM (#40784245)
>> Their interests are in ensuring the entire ETF goes up...

Things like automatic enrolment in 401K plans, or automatically bumping employee contributions by 1 percent will also benefit the broad market and funds.

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Re:Fearing Losses, Banks Are Quietly Dumping Real Estate Loans by mitthrowaway2 on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @12:49AM (#40784595)
Yes, as does curing COVID and protecting the environment.[1] And on the less good side: broad-based price hikes instead of fighting with the competition over market share in a race to the bottom.[2] It remains to be seen whether ETF ownership is connected to "greedflation", but I believe so.

[1] https://newsletterhunt.com/emails/12216

[2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2632024

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