To me it appears the USA is in significant economic decline...I see many empty store fronts and closed businesses. In light of all this, the government is using COVID to take away civil liberties.
My question: is the government propping up the stock market to placate the population and keep them from revolting? The average citizen sees that his 401K is exploding, thus while he observes complete economic collapse around him he believes he will be OK in the end because of all the money he has generated through investments. Thus the average citizen believes he will have an economic future ahead of him due to the stock market climb.
I'm no economic expert and this is merely a theory that came across my mind.
The quantitative easing drives it up.
Cantillon effect. Fed also buys up ETFs and corp. bonds.
Then Joe Schmo sees the market is rising, stuck at home, downloads robinhood, and throws their money in the pot too for the mad gainz.
As the pot grows, big boys are setting up their short positions, reallocating, and moving to whatever the next grift will be (crypto? carbon credit market? social credit score index, human suffering ETF?).
Once they are in position, at some point they crash the system (See every other crash since the fed started).
Big guys walk away, little guy left holding the bag.
What triggers it, idk. Fun Imbolic ritual?
Once everyone is now financially decimated, they are more compelled to depend on the state.
Sentiment of avg. normie is good to track.
They seem more hesitant but excited about muh vaxx stonks.
We need conspiracies.stonks threads....