• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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    11 months ago

    …how much is the stock market?

    No, like the entire thing. All of it. And the bond market, I’ll take that too.

    Buy it all as a retail trader, or as much as possible in 24 hours. Pay people to help me get more trades done.

    Wreck some short sellers on the way, inflate the value of a bunch of companies, acquire several publicly traded banks and at least one investment firm, probably a law firm or two. Pay them to explain it to the IRS.

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      11 months ago

      Not possible because the price will rise as you buy. Your broker will not even accept a deposit of “infinity dollars”. None of this is possible because moving large amounts of money doesn’t happen that quickly, for good reason.

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        11 months ago

        Yes, well OP also doesn’t say that there will be no consequences. I feel like everyone’s answers are just ignoring the tax burden that would result from realizing this income.

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          11 months ago

          You sell 50% of the stuff you bought to pay it. Or maybe more because the prices probably crashed. But you have a lot of time to do that, actually - you have at least a quarter to pay estimated taxes, plus it’s just fines and/or interest to kick the can even further.

          It’s not that big a deal.

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      11 months ago

      I imagine the SEC would shut you down once your owned to many competing interests, so you would have to limit your companies to avoid breaking securities laws.