IMO with the exclusion of solid dividend paying stocks, the market is a lot like Las Vegas. It has little resemblance to the what the hard working labor class workers are faced with in their daily lives. For individual investors it's almost like a Ponzi scheme. For institutional investors like Goldman Sachs with super computers its a profit making machine. The bad thing for our economy is that whatever "profits" are made by "playing" the stock market are not earned. Nothing was produced to earn that profit and no service was provided to earn that profit.
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