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+12 Politician death match 11 5y
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0 Where to live in SF as a consultant? 2 5y
+19 South Beach - What to Do? 15 5y
+29 Kaepernick's SPAC 16 5y
+6 If You Could Become A Dictator Of One Country, Which Would You Choose? 10 5y
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+153 An Honest Conversation about Vaccines 71 5y
+19 Lucid Motors Going Public via SPAC... 18 5y
+23 The future of New York City: The 2021 NYC Mayoral Election and the comeback plan 6 5y
0 How hard to buy a mom and pop and let it run itself? 11 5y
+16 Is ugrad + masters + MBA too much education these days? 9 5y
+5 Lost trading mojo 5 5y
+24 Quarantine breakups 21 5y
+101 Life changes due to COVID, "Great Reset", new regime, etc. 26 5y
+8 How would you quantify “in the coming weeks” 1 5y
+14 Watches that hold value 23 4y
+8 How are Bonuses taxed compared to base salary? 5 5y
0 what are some viral hacks to build a new marketplace 2 5y
+20 Are we in a bubble? 23 5y
+26 To let him/her break up w you or just do it? 12 5y
+43 Billionaire added me on LinkedIn - What to do? 37 5y
+26 Copping a model 3 15 5y
+63 Biden is really fucking this up 28 4y
0 Access to Execucomp 1 5y
+10 What do you invest the majority of your $$ in? 27 5y
+54 At What Point Do You Think Money/Income marginally contributes to Happiness? 48 5y
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+149 Trump 2024, Election Fraud, and the Senate Impeachment trial 58 5y
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+41 Any Entrepreneurs Here? 53 5y
+54 Travel the world 55 9mo
+122 Is economics a sham? 56 4y
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0 Index fund in illiquid market? 1 5y
+16 Litquidity 30 under 30 14 5y
0 Target Hirevue 3 5y
+17 Thank You WSO for Mentoring Me How to Communicate in Banking as an Elite Candidate 5 4y
+37 Sometimes I don't think Logic exists 22 5y
+4 GOP Senator: "Politics isn't about the weird worship of 1 dude" 8 5y
0 GME & 30 Day Holding Compliance Violations: How Fucked Am I ? 2 5y
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+13 Ridiculous UBS Video 24 4y
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+38 Going back tomorrow finally to train as a member of 5 fitness facilities 18 5y
+15 WSO is the best 1 5y
+11 I am Sick of Wall Street Culture! 6 5y
+7 What do you own in your personal investment account? 6 5y
+14 Nancy Mace "I'm two doors down from @aoc and no insurrectionists stormed our hallway" 9 5y
+4 Renouncing U.S. Citizenship? 11 5y
+15 Need More Regulation on Wall Street! 22 5y
+68 Bumble bans fatphobic messages and body shaming 70 5y
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+14 How Do I Handle This HR Mix-Up? 5 5y
+138 Intern I'm working with is kicking my ass, any of you experienced this? 30 5y
0 Sports performance/ psychology reading list. 1 3y
+12 Anyone cycle while working? 16 5y
+40 Anyone else scared to deploy capital into the markets in their personal portfolio? 42 5y
+5 Biden voters how you feeling? What do you like so far? What policy possibilities scare you? 5 5y
+21 Superbowl LV - Old Guard vs. New Guard 22 5y
0 Best Spot For Non-Itemized Receipts in Midtown East 1 5y
+1 Cuomo opens indoor dining even though cases are far worse than when he closed 4 5y
+114 The Irony of Index funds 34 3y
+19 The dumbest piercing ever 13 5y
+152 Software engineering is a much better career path than everything this community talks about 109 3y
+26 Best WFH upgrades 25 5y
+28 Most Over-Used Investment Themes in 2020 & 2021 21 5y
+7 Who's Actually Had the Vaccine? 11 4y
+26 Patrick - How about a WSO board for business/trading investment ideas? 7 5y
+4 Best Subreddits 9 5y
+7 Ideas for Valentines Day? 5 5y
+126 Would you ever open a restaurant? 64 3y
+80 DFV Lost $13.6 million today 59 5y
0 Bezos and the future of AMZN 1 5y
+4 Where to learn what all the acronyms and shortcuts mean? 2 5y
+41 URGENT: Pittsburgh or DC 52 5y
+11 How many users would you wager Robinhood lost? 6 5y
+91 Is San Francisco THAT bad?? 64 5y
+27 White claw is the shit 30 5y
0 Investing, Markets & Macroeconomics Forum Shortcut? 1 5y
+21 Where are the most cutthroat people on Wall Street? 38 4y
+10 Scholars of Finance helpful for IB? 7 4y
0 Living Alone or Roommate? 8 5y
+15 Any other fundamentalists out there laughing in the inside at the reddidiots left holding bag of shits from buying GME, AMC etc? 5 5y
0 What is the career risk of entrepreneurship after 1 year of work experience? 2 5y
+29 Elizabeth Warren is an Idiot 16 5y
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