I'm not even talking about investors. I'm talking about how to price an apple. Do you think there's a better way to price it than by the free market? Note that

I'm not even talking about investors. I'm talking about how to price an apple. Do you think there's a better way to price it than by the free market? Note that I'm not advocating getting rid of regulation -- I think that's very important, since most businesses don't correctly price in externalities, a la BP and the 2008 crash. To answer your question, though, he point I'm making is that no one knows the true value of an asset. That's why we have markets: to help us price them. Unless we have a better mechanism for pricing assets (anything, not just stocks), we should take the market price as close to fair.