We are up about 50 pct from the lows in March. Stock market is a leading economic indicator. Isn’t it possible that things are stabilizing and might be on the path to getting better?

If people just left their money in the stock market, buisness wouldn’t loose a ton of money, meaning business would survive, and people make money.
Also, when something happens like 911, who decides, or what makes people take their money out?
I mean, if people just leave their money in the stock market, the value of the [...]

Surely the economy is the sum of all the money changing hands in the country and the activity of all the companies.
I don’t understand how the economy can be growing at a fw percentage points but the stock market in general grows at a faster rate than this.
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With health care it makes up 48% along with car makers, insurance companies, banks, fannie & freddie home loans, student loans, etc, etc…
How much more do you want the government to have direct control over before you feel like its enough?

The Stock Market is just a judgment of how people who have vastly more money than you do play with that money in an economy. Or do you mean the Stock Market being ~9500 on 9/10/01 meant people knew 9/11 would happen?

As the title says, what effect do credit cards have on the economy?

I am considering a bachelors in Real Estate Business, and the only thing that scares me about being an agent is the fact that salary is commission based, and how do agents live when nothing is selling? I know houses are still being bought and sold, but still. ?

Can the stock market outperform the regular market (economy)? There’s something I don’t understand. Let’s say there’s 100 corporations and those corporations control the entire economy. Let’s say those corporations each have a PE of 20. Now let’s say over 100 years, the economy has grown at an annual rate of 6%. If their PEs [...]

I need to consolidate my student loans but with the economy such as it is should I wait?

Aren’t tax cuts a purely republican strategy?
Didn’t Reagan and Bush both use extensive tax cuts to boost the economy at the beginning of both of their first terms?
Has Obama gone “Reagan” on us?