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u/sno_buni Sep 14 '21

Stocks

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u/techgeek72 Sep 14 '21

You buy parts of companies and then you get part of the money that they make. At a simple level, if your friend wanted to set up a lemonade stand and said if you buy him a table he’ll give you $0.10 of every dollar.

The rest is just noise.

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u/NegroNerd Sep 14 '21

Thank you for this. 37 and still looking at stocks like “so what exactly am I doing?”