How The Stock Market Works

[Moby]

One day a man comes to a village and tells everyone that he'll buy monkeys for $10. Since monkeys are plentiful and easily caught, the villagers catch many monkeys and make lots of money. As the villagers catch more monkeys the number of monkeys declines, they become harder to find and the villagers have more money now so many stop catching monkeys.

The man then claims that he'll buy monkeys for $25 and a new monkey catcher arrives from the city selling traps. Since the monkey catcher is making lots of money with his new traps the villagers want those traps but they can't afford them. They borrow money to buy the traps, catch more monkeys and soon they're making more money than they were before.

One day the man tells the villagers that he has to go to the city but when he returns he'll start buying monkeys for $50. The man's assistant goes to the villagers and tells them that he's unhappy with the man and that the he'll sell the monkeys for $35 and when the man comes back he'll buy those same monkeys for $50 so they can make a profit. All they have to do is borrow some money from the bank to buy the monkeys and some monkey cages from the monkey catcher.

The villagers buy all the monkeys, buy all the traps and never see the man, the assistant or the monkey catcher ever again.
Now you know how the stock market works.

[Smurf-Herder]

Did you learn that at Harvard Business School?

Does this make bananas dividends? Or would bananas be considered capital investment?

Does this make the Fed a zoo?

Sorry, you lost me at the part where the monkeys started mating.

[Dale escondido]

You forgot the part where monkeys caught in the future are sold, about 30 fake ones to every real one.
How the paper monkeys actually drove the markets and shortage of real monkeys played no part.

[Smurf-Herder]

Monkey Brains ....


It's what's for dinner.

[disrupter]

They have to trade paper monkey futures once the monkeys are extinct.

There is no overview with this kind of reckless capitalism.
A bunch of myopic agendas with blindly linear visions projecting on an imagined future.
In the process destroying the very basis upon which this whole market depends.
They forget the containment field that is reality. Their linearity pokes holes in reality which should clue everyone in.

Untempered capitalism is suicidal.

Drunken, irresponsible, hedonism pretending to be capitalism does it even faster. You might keep in mind what is currently happening all around us.

[Dale escondido]

They have to trade paper monkey futures once the monkeys are extinct.

There is no overview with this kind of reckless capitalism.
A bunch of myopic agendas with blindly linear visions projecting on an imagined future.
In the process destroying the very basis upon which this whole market depends.
They forget the containment field that is reality. Their linearity pokes holes in reality which should clue everyone in.

Untempered capitalism is suicidal.

Drunken, irresponsible, hedonism pretending to be capitalism does it even faster. You might keep in mind what is currently happening all around us.

The worst part is everything being done is to put the whole thing back in place.
There is nothing being said about getting back to sound policy.
As more of us sheep become aware of the trap it gets harder to catch us.
They will talk more regs but the system will not be fixed.

[SeedyROM]

I got that email too. The market is like that, well its more like musical chairs. Definitely a twisted game but I like it!! Too bad neither party has ever had a vested intererest in cleaning up corrupt practices on wallstreet.