>A stock's price can go up only because another's goes down. Ah, the zero-sum game deception. That only works in the short term, else the world economies woul

>A stock's price can go up only because another's goes down. Ah, the zero-sum game deception. That only works in the short term, else the world economies wouldn't be able to support a population that is double what it was 30 or 40 years ago. That doesn't mean I disagree with the statement that capital assets are not valued purely on future earnings.