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“Should” ?

Making investment decisions using politics as a differentiator, one way or the other, usually isn’t a good idea. If the investment is suitable for my goals, and so long as it’s not an actual illegal enterprise, I’m a buyer.

I mean… EVERY SINGLE COMPANY in the S&P500 and NASDAQ100 has got to have an ESG and DEI policy and officers… does that mean SPY and QQQ are “verboten”?

I had a co-worker who refused to particiapte in the 401(k) because the practice of loaning money out at interest was “haram”. OK, have fun being poor, I thought.

I had another co-worker who was trying to interest me in buying shares of a fund that was 100% onshore American… only US based companies, and they had an American supply chain and they only employed Americans. Fine. Then i realized later… the language he used was quite typical of scammers - language meant to create an emotional response (patriotism) and a sense of urgency, and even outrage at the companies that were somehow… how shall I put it… “haram”.

Emotions are used by people to divorce your hands from your brain, so they get a certain desired result from you to their benefit. If you don’t know who the mark is in this process… it’s you.

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