re: How fake is the US economy?

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How fake is the US stock market? Does our government prop it up in any capacity?

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It’s total bullshite. Circuit breakers, trade halts, liquidity injections, bailouts, etc. The real question is why capital markets exist in the first place, because if you really go down the rabbits hole you’ll realize we’re mostly a planned economy cosplaying as a free market. And most of the countries largest corporations are essentially an extension of the government itself

E.g. if trading was suddenly unregulated starting Monday, it would be sitting at 0 before noon