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Why do public markets invest in such crap ?
by petra 9y ago
Why do public markets invest in such crap ?
- baybal2 9y agoWhy Americans invest in public stock markets full of crap?
- perl4ever 9y agoWhy do you characterize investors in public stock markets as "Americans"? I don't think American capital is the majority of the world any more, if it ever was.
- baybal2 9y agoRegular Americans certainly lead the world for the amount of money of ordinary people poured into the stock market
- cat199 9y agoBut yet, >20% of US stocks are owned by foreigners.. and I would wager these are majority institutional investors.. http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/01/investing/foreign-investors-buy-us-stocks-bonds/index.html http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/01/investing/foreign-investors-... besides, most average people who invest - US and foreign alike - buy mutual funds and have no idea what is in their portfolio.. but go ahead with your logical fallacy self - you are certainly making a stronger case for the americans being the dumb ones..
- baybal2 9y ago>but go ahead with your logical fallacy self - you are certainly making a stronger case for the americans being the dumb ones.. Hmmm >most average people who invest - US and foreign alike - buy mutual funds and have no idea what is in their portfolio.. I put this to doubt. People who invest in US and in the remaining world do come from rather different socioeconomic classes. US is probably one of the few countries where an average Joe ever knows what mutual funds are.
- kolbe 9y agoBecause indexing ensures that if the company exists with very minor standards, people will automatically buy into it via their mutual funds and ETFs.