Investors are increasingly souring on the United States, as illustrated by the declining dollar, the stalled stock market and rising government borrowing costs.
Investors are increasingly souring on the United States, as illustrated by the declining dollar, the stalled stock market and rising government borrowing costs.
you should really view the US stock market through the lens of a casino, there are many very peculiar rule differences between the US and other world’s markets that when viewed objectively can only be for one purpose…enabling blatant price manipulation to make things “exciting”, which helps “increase volatility/liquidity”.
this enables a cycle of predatory boom/bust “investing”, by running the price of securities up significantly (which are then used as collateral, for loans/margin etc.) then slamming them back down (at which point, those loans start getting called in/liquidating people). this has been the mainstain of Wallstreet for hundreds of years now, literally the foundation upon which it (and the country as a whole) was built.
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is a really good primer on this, a tongue in cheek guidebook on how trading works. like a century old Wolf of Wallstreet