Do you address moral considerations and ethics when investing in stocks?
Personally, I more or less don't address that when investing because every company does something wrong, and I couldn't invest anywhere with that attitude. On the one hand, I understand that it's not ideal and that it's not pretty, but on the other hand, I don't mind investing in companies like $MO or $LMT.
I don't care either.
I don't do that either. I also have $MO, $BTI or even $CVX in my portfolio.
So yes the Woke and green deal movement was overblown and rightly backfired, but I wouldn't question the direction, a whole new economy of sustainable resources and electro-mobility has emerged from it Tesla has been on the cutting edge thanks to the genius of Musk. I used to joke that Musk is a genius albeit a bit unstable, but so is every genius because the only stable one is Trump. I had no idea those two would team up and what a disaster it would be. Well, now I conclude that Musk is past his zenith (before Tesla is probably BYD in FSD and BostonDynamics in robotics) and Trump is hurting America by relying on an outdated (but simple enough to understand) economic theory. I'd love to be wrong but apparently we're in for "interesting times" (according to the Chinese curse) Now the hoarding of cash in short term bonds and old Omaha soothsayer bills is starting to make sense to me. Whom I apparently wrongly suspected of being a clueless old man. 🤷♂️