Why is it when we talk about the economy we always talk about investors? The economy is about resource distribution. The whole point of this thing is to find optimal distribution of resources. By that metric the thing is currently pretty unhealthy.
An investment is supposed to be a way to allocate capital that serves the needs of someone so that they pay you for it. The "serves the needs of someone" part seems to be entirely overlooked as of late, and the goal now seems to be to monetize everything to beat monetary inflation, it seems to me the entire economy has devolved into a greater fool game.
People can't afford to live in homes. Take a moment to imagine how absurd such a statement is, but that's the world we live in. A combination of construction costs, restrictions on use and building, mortgage rates and municipal property taxes are making houses unaffordable, but someone out there is willing to buy them up and leave them empty.
I'd argue that the fact that the economy doesn't work for about half of all it's participants is a key indicator that the economy is doing very badly. This cannot continue, and we can keep massaging things to make numbers look good, talking about how well the balance sheets of corporations are looking, the reality out here in the real world is that nobody can afford anything and there's no way to get ahead anymore while maintaining your integrity. Something's going to give eventually.
People would stop working if you don't hand them some paper. But once you hand them some paper, they will start to produce something, the product move to next person, and you take some percentages out of every single one, everyone is happy, everyone has what they want. It is fascinating.
"A year ago, income gains were being wiped out by high inflation. Not anymore. Since last year, inflation-adjusted hourly earnings have gone from worst to first, reaching the top quartile of all readings going back to 1965."
It's pretty wild. I've been alive for 4 decades and paying attentions to media coverage of the market for 2 decades and there hasn't been a single month where the market was about to implode according to journalists.
The only thing wrong with capitalism is that it has some edge cases that we have not been good about regulating. It works very well if there is enough diversity and competition among suppliers and consumers.
Dear reader, unless you are the idea of masculinity itself, we're talking about two different things. Capitalism can be in crisis without all capitalists being in crisis.
The only interesting thing here is that even after multiple millennia of evidence that predicting the future is not possible, humans still want to predict or buy predictions.
An investment is supposed to be a way to allocate capital that serves the needs of someone so that they pay you for it. The "serves the needs of someone" part seems to be entirely overlooked as of late, and the goal now seems to be to monetize everything to beat monetary inflation, it seems to me the entire economy has devolved into a greater fool game.
People can't afford to live in homes. Take a moment to imagine how absurd such a statement is, but that's the world we live in. A combination of construction costs, restrictions on use and building, mortgage rates and municipal property taxes are making houses unaffordable, but someone out there is willing to buy them up and leave them empty.
I'd argue that the fact that the economy doesn't work for about half of all it's participants is a key indicator that the economy is doing very badly. This cannot continue, and we can keep massaging things to make numbers look good, talking about how well the balance sheets of corporations are looking, the reality out here in the real world is that nobody can afford anything and there's no way to get ahead anymore while maintaining your integrity. Something's going to give eventually.