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Bezos has divested $12.5 billion worth of Amazon shares, while Warren Buffett has disposed of his Apple stock investments and is now sitting on a staggering $325 billion in cash reserves. (lemmygrad.ml)

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These actions suggest that we may be standing at the precipice of the largest financial bubble in history, which they seem to believe is about to burst imminently.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Amazon%27s-Bezos-sells-dollar1.25B-worth-of-shares/63056547

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/does-warren-buffett-know-something-that-we-dont-48fabc9d

https://www.forexlive.com/stock-market-update/buffetts-berkshire-hathaway-hoarding-cash-in-a-pattern-seen-before-the-financial-crisis-20241112/

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

That's not what neoliberalism is. Neoliberalism is the ideology that promotes free markets and globalization. Trade deficits are an inherent part of the neoliberal order. The dollar flows out of the US, while the wealth and resources of the global south flow into the US. That's the trade defecit, and neoliberals have no problem with it. Neoliberals are the ones who did NAFTA and the other free trade agreements that more or less necessitate a trade deficit