Comment by idiotsecant

15 hours ago

A third of all spending is not fundamentally a stretch?

> A third of all spending is not fundamentally a stretch?

Where did you get spending? That's net buying of stocks by non-financial Americans. It's the new money that has, on average, gone into the U.S. stock market from that section of investors every year. A third of it going into these new issuances doesn't need to break anything.

  • Dumb question here, but would it necessarily mean the other stocks they might've bought (i.e. the rest of the market) will not get the cash infusion and will thus likely drop in valuation?

    • > would it necessarily mean the other stocks they might've bought (i.e. the rest of the market) will not get the cash infusion and will thus likely drop in valuation?

      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

      Almost certainly, to some degree. But that doesn’t mean anything has to drop. Just not rise, or not rise as much as it would have. Or potentially some other company that would have gone public or sold shares doesn’t do it now.

  • > A third of it going into these new issuances doesn't need to break anything.

    Other than it not going somewhere more productive. Are you willing to just bury 1/3 of your income in the back yard?