Because the government is printing a ton of money, but those companies' value is not changing. That's one component of stock prices: a lot of companies simply h

Because the government is printing a ton of money, but those companies' value is not changing. That's one component of stock prices: a lot of companies simply have a static value (at best), like houses, but that still has them go up by inflation (the real inflation, closer to the tongue-in-cheek "big mac inflation" of ~3%, not the CPI of 0.7%)