I think food and beverage companies are always a good investment because people will buy these things no matter what. During difficult times we tend to stop any bigger purchases like a new car or a vacation far away. Saving on our food and drinks usually comes very last. Investing in McDonald's and coca cola I would prefer to tesla, the stock is already quite high.

It's been almost one year since the initial valorant hype. I remember how promising the new game looked because it was so much more beginner friendly than the thee shooters. Almost all the big twitch streamers played it regularly, but now it looks like that valorant didn't make it as the new number one shooter game. I am not betting so much on e sports at the moment because money is a big tight, but I still like to watch games on YouTube and twitch. What I noticed from the viewer numbers is that CSGO is still more popular. And even games like Escape from Tarkov has a lot of viewers even though there is no real competitive angle for betting. Maybe it takes a few more years for Valorant to reach its place at the top.

Without risk there wouldn't be any return. You can see from government bonds or money market accounts that there is return to be made right now. Risk free you can maybe earn 0.5-1% right now, with an inflation rate of 2% we are losing money each year if we don't invest it properly. The crypto market is huge with a lot of different alt coins, we can decide for ourself how much risk we are willing to take.

I wish the world would be more rational. If I look at the politicians in my country I don't see logical thinking. Their actions are either driven by fear or by an personal motivation. It doesn't feel like there are any long term plans in action. The politicians only focus on the next four years and at the moment the main topic is corona. I wish there was more planning towards the future in 10 or 20 years. Not only how we can spend the most money today.

But is there a huge demand for the digital ruble? The ruble was quite weak over the last few years in part due to the western sanctions against Russia. A big problem for USA is the Nord stream 2 pipeline being build to sell more energy to Europe. If this project is not getting stopped we could see more sanctions against Russia. Maybe they restrict western markets to trade the digital ruble all together. In my opinion there is not a lot of demand from within Russia.

So far all my parents received the first injections of the corona vaccine. The funny thing is that everybody got a different type, my grandmother got biontech, my mother Moderna and my dad AstraZeneca. Noone of them had any side effects, no bad reactions or anything. I heard from a friend of my parents that she felt the injection needle for a day and was a bit tired the next day, but no physical complications. I think we can trust the vaccines.

I would say any card game that is known around the world could be used in a PvP setup. There a some competitive card games out there which have championships in my city, the only problem is that you only play it with 4 people. The attractiveness of poker is that you can sit with 10 people on one table and play for a lot of money. If you find no limit holdem to competitive you could try and go for different variants like Omaha for example.

For me it is definitely my mother. I love my whole family and also my friends. But my mother took care of me for so long without getting anything in return. My dad left when I was young, so it was very hard for her.

The developed countries might be in a better position because they can produce more vaccines should reach herd immunity much faster than poorer countries. Israel for example has so much money that they just bought all the vaccines in the begging and are already back to a normal life. Eventually the whole world needs to recover. What we see is an rise in debt all around the world. So we probably need more stimulus packages to get the economy back on track.

I agree, too many small parties will make it impossible to combine them to reach 50%. With the people being so divided these days there is a lot of hostility involved in politics. The politicians prefer to block a new government instead of looking on compromises and how to move on. Everybody wants to get the biggest share of the cake and no one wants to be the loser. In Belgium for example it seems impossible to find a consent for a new government.

Great summary, I fully agree with you. We have all been newcomers once so we understand how difficult it is to find the right projects among the large number of coins and tokens. Probably the most of us have also lost some money in a project. For me the experience of losing money helped a lot to be more cautious with new coins. You are also right that the market can't rise forever,it will always give bear and bull cycles, we need to be ready to adjust to the trend.

I depends,  I like music a lot but it always comes down to the occasion. When gaming with some friends I really like hard bass. But when relaxing, playing poker or gambling I like something easy like pop or old rock.

But how do we counter central banks digital currencies? For me counter the coin would be to short the market and try to decline the value, but the central bank can just issue new ones. This is very risky for us because the central banks have unlimited miney
The best thing for us is probably just to avoid these coins and stick to our crypto coins.

Are you sure you are following the community guidelines? Maybe you IP Adress was associated with spamming posts. I would try again with a VPN and see if it works, if you are still getting then maybe you need to make a new account.

Unfortunately I don't have why mentors. I had a mentor during high-school and university but he died last year. It was very valuable to talk with an older man about plans and goals in life. Mentoring is a very important part to support younger people in their first steps of business environments. I hope one day I can do that too.

I agree with you that we all should be responsible gamblers and only use the money we are able to lose. If we need to money for other things than we shouldn't gamble with it, winning is not a guarantee in gambling. Casinos are businesses that operate to make money for them self. If they aren't profitable then they are going to close down. While for some people gambling is just leisure and a way to relax in the evening, there are others who want to make money with gambling. There are strategies out there that can help us, but in the end not everybody can be winning. There will always be some who win and some who lose.

I wasn't aware that you could invest in prisons. Always thought they were some special companies owned partially by the county or state. This sounds very interesting. I saw in an documentary about prisons that the normal prisons are very profitable because inmates all have a job and are not getting paid a decent salary. So prisons with non life sentenced convicts have a pretty high percentage of the inmates working. The prisons that are not really profitable are the supermax ones where inmates remain in their cells all day.

I fully agree with you. The laws are just to mild for corruption in my opinion. If there would be longer prison sentences and more monetary backslashes then athlete's would think twice before doing something wrong. Salaries are already high for the big teams, there is no need to break the trust of the fans and industry. Then again fans keep forgetting quite fast. When there is only a 1 or 2 year ban for cheating than everything is forgotten. With so much money involved in the betting market we need tougher controls against corruption and manipulation.

Yes, I do believe that history is repeating itself. Humans like to live in patterns and follow our fellow people, herd movements are very common. And also people tend to forget very past. That is probably also why so many scientist spent a lot of time analysing past data. And fundamental investors who use chart analysis to find trading signals are also very profitable.

I think this would be the dream of any company, they own your home and you don't have to pay rent, but in return you are only paid a small salary. Imagine Amazon or Apple would just build their own city instead of an office complex. Let every worker do home office and make only video conferences from home. Owning large office blocks would be completely redundant. Your boss also bring your landlord, scary times.