why is our leaf market y=x^2 right now? I've applied to like 1000 jobs and my grandma is kicking me out of her basement soon if I don't get a job..
When companies pay employees less and lay them off, that is a cost savings, which makes the stock price go up.
>>60925116Does it honestly seem like the price of a single good, service or asset in this entire country is reflective of an organic supply/demand equilibrium having been reached? Does anything in this country seem real to you? So why would this index reflect anything but the essential artificiality of the underlying “markets”?
Genuinely feels like if you didn't make it pre-covid before they turned the money printer on, you're never gonna make it. The ladder has been pulled up and real goods get more expensive while wages stagnate, so if you can't ride the asset price increase caused by money printing you eternally get poorer.