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Personal Finance and Investing

jeffrey_pdx

(222 posts)

6. Some advice some one once gave me

Reply to baby_bear (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2014, 01:04 AM

Sep 2014

If you buy stock in some company, you are not actually giving them money. You are buyings shares previously bought. If thats a problem, don't buy them, ifts not you are just betting on the return. Thats something everyone has to decide for themselves.

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Some advice some one once gave me jeffrey_pdx Sep 2014 #6