• puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    The crazy thing about speculative economy is that by releasing this article, businessinsider might scare some of the investors and so create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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      8 months ago

      Shhh, it’s exactly how stock is meant to work for them. Hype bubbles and “adjustments”.

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      8 months ago

      I’ve always thought that about recession predictions. After all, economists measure consumer confidence and define the meaning of the results as

      if consumers are optimistic, they will spend more and stimulate the economy, but if they are pessimistic then their spending patterns could lead to an economic slowdown or recession.

      It’s clearly reasonable to think that publishing panic-inducing articles like “stock market will soon CRASH 49%!!” would decrease consumer confidence.

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      8 months ago

      That’s what they are paid to do. Big fund takes a short position, then pays analysts to produce stories to make their short position profitable.