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How can investing in stocks destabilize the economy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_bubble#Positive_feedback http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_bubble#Posi
by gravitycop 18y ago
How can investing in stocks destabilize the economy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_bubble#Positive_feedback http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_bubble#Positive_feedback
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But if you don't invest in stocks, how can you be affected?
Market shocks affect the entire economy (through expanding and contracting credit, etc.). If one does a cannonball into a pool, how can it affect anyone else in the pool?
http://images.google.com/images?q=pool+cannonball http://images.google.com/images?q=pool+cannonball
- cx01 18y agoI wrote in my post that it might lead more people to buy stocks, but that's entirely their fault. I don't see how one rising stock might affect anyone who is not investing in the stock market. The cannonball analogy doesn't hold.