How to Money · Friday, August 14, 2026
Gen Z is reportedly investing at an earlier age and often using Roth IRAs, which is seen as positive financial behavior. However, some of these investments include high-risk options like prediction markets, sports betting, and leveraged ETFs, which are not considered true investments and can lead to significant losses.
“So that's the good. Yeah. The bad is that these investments. Oh and another part of the good too is that predominantly in roth iras, which I'm just like, great, yes you're not.”
“They they got the memo on that.”
“The bad news is that sometimes these investments also include prediction markets, sports betting options, leverage, gtfs, all the bad things as well. Yeah, this is the story over in the Morning Star.”
“It will make a massive difference in your eventual standard of living. In the nest egg you're able to accumulate unless you're really screw the pooch with a lot of those investing dollars early on, and you think that some of the actions that you're taking that you're calling investing are not actually investing. Like if you are using those dollars to gamble on Calshi and they disappear, Sorry, that wasn't investing.”