Don’t Buy What the Stock Market Is Selling
Most people, I believe, are oblivious to how the stock market works. I know I was for most of my life, and I still am clueless about the nitty gritty of it. But, I now understand that the Stock Market is NOT reflective of our economy despite what we are being led to believe by the mainstream media.
I imagine most people think (as I had for most of my life) that if the Stock Market is doing well, then our economy must be doing well. And if the Stock Market crashes, then that means our economy is toast.
However, in recent years, I have come to learn that is not the case at all.
Never mind what the media is telling us. Consider what we can see is happening in real life over the past four years:
- The cost of living has gone (& continues to go) through the roof.
This is largely due to the fact that Central Banks, such as the Federal Reserve, are able to generate what most people consider to be “money” (dollars) out of thin air and are in fact doing so. As a result, the value of every existing dollar diminishes.
So, when we all received those stimulus checks from the federal government in 2020, those dollars were not in existence before 2020 — they were all created out of thin air.
And each time Congress approved & doled out foreign aid packages to Ukraine and Israel in recent years, those dollars were not in existence beforehand either — they were all created out of thin air.
As a result of actions like these, every old (& new) dollar is devalued & loses purchasing power.
In this devaluation process, it takes more dollars to buy things, therefore the cost of things being made, sold & resold goes up for businesses. And in order for sellers to stay in business, they need to raise their selling prices to cover their higher costs. Hence, inflation. - A plethora of businesses have drastically downsized their operations while another plethora of them have closed down altogether.
Businesses typically employ people to operate their businesses, and they compensate them in dollars at a fixed rate or amount. (While some companies may give periodic raises to their employees, most are unable to keep up with the rate of inflation.) The price of goods & services continue to rise, while the earnings of most people don’t. In fact their earnings are essentially being stolen from them all the while their dollars earned are being devalued.
With the rise of modern technology, the needs for human labor & human intelligence are diminishing. As a result, machines are doing what humans used to do, and corporations are downsizing their human resources — people are losing their sources of income.
With the Internet, coupled with the convenience of digital currency (such as credit/debit card transactions) and the rise in popularity of cellular communications, the need for brick and mortar establishments in town squares is rapidly declining. People today largely communicate & transact their various exchanges virtually.
As a result, many business operations are closing their in-real-life establishments, and again, people are losing their sources of income.
The bottom line: our economy is already toast.
Meanwhile the Powers-That-Shouldn’t-Be in this world are propping up the Stock Market — giving the appearance that all is well in our economy — and even flat-out lying to the general public about our nation’s financial condition. They are using this opportunity to financially enslave everyone they possibly can and utterly destroy the middle class.
I believe we all need to realize this reality and make better strategic moves going forward.
