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Totally out of my field here, but is it possible the stock market doesn’t actually track the economy anymore? Stocks don’t pay dividends that often nowadays; it
by Xcelerate 7y ago
Totally out of my field here, but is it possible the stock market doesn’t actually track the economy anymore? Stocks don’t pay dividends that often nowadays; it doesn’t seem to be so much an investment as a guess about where other people think the price is going to go. I mean, what does Bitcoin track, or the price of art? It almost seems arbitrary.
- hckr_news 7y agoKai Ryssdal often states "the market is not the economy"
- compiler-guy 7y ago"Anymore"... It never really did. The two are correlated somewhat, but there has always been a great variance within that correlation, and it is no different now.
- throw_this_one 7y agoSince big companies can raise capital with really low interest rates... isn't the stock market basically a big Casino game? Name of the game is to guess what everybody else is gonna do and come out ahead. Most are just investing for a return. Seems pointless.