Stocks don't mirror the general state of the economy, at all, stocks are just another market. Look at how stocks performed during 2020-2021, where economies wer

Stocks don't mirror the general state of the economy, at all, stocks are just another market. Look at how stocks performed during 2020-2021, where economies were struggling because people couldn't work (or in many places not even leave their houses/blocks for months at a time), the stock market follows feeling and confidence and not the economy necessarily. Can it be a proxy to study the underlying economies? Probably, but it's never the economy.