r/WallStreetbetsELITE • u/davidmt1995 • Mar 07 '25

Shitpost Missing uncle Joe here

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You know what strengthens the stock market? Stability and predictability.

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u/Electronic-Ideal2955 Mar 07 '25

Interviewer: What would you do different?

Harris: Nothing comes to mind.

Voters apparently: We do have the strongest economic trend in the world, but let's go with the insane ideas person.

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u/Kurolegacy27 Mar 08 '25

But can’t you see, surely tariffs and making Americans pay more for their every day purchases will surely bring prices down….wait…

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u/usermane22 Mar 08 '25

STOCK prices down. We didn’t hear that one important word

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u/Cambren1 27d ago

First the stock prices, then the egg prices; maybe a small recession for a while, but pretty painless if you are a billionaire. Grown men come up to me, tears in their eyes, and say they are glad I sent their gardener back to Mexico.

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u/Big-Remote-5671 28d ago

I know, right?! Tariffs worked so well the last time. We only had to bail out our own farmers because their crops sat around so long, they rotted.

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u/Groundbreaking_Sea83 28d ago

The stock market going up helps regular working people how?🤔 it only profits the rich

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u/Electronic-Ideal2955 28d ago

Yes, and the market ranking like this is the rich losing value.

But they are not entirely disconnected. Stock valuations are not only emotional (though that is a component), and are based on future value; which is a bi-product of business conducted. Less business conducted means fewer jobs and slower wage growth trends across the market.

All red means the majority of rich wealth ownership is predicting this trend across the whole market. It's an ominous sign.

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u/Groundbreaking_Sea83 27d ago

Doesn't it also mean the rich can buy stocks on the cheap rn?

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u/Electronic-Ideal2955 27d ago

Buy stocks from who (other rich people?) and with what money (the piles of cash they aren't sitting on because they own stocks?). Rich people who anticipated this and were sitting on stacks of cash will be able to buy for less, but are they going to buy now or do they expect the price to further decline? But keep in mind wealthy people have staggering amounts of money and can't just sell their entire position like a retail investor can. It can take literally months for them to change positions without shocking the market, and they tend to exit a position to move into a preferable one, not because meh. But the reality is everyone can buy stocks right now. Trading is very accessible with apps like etrade or robinhood.

Let's get less abstract with it and look at a company like Verizon, because Verizon pays dividends. An investor looking for returns has an idea how much Verizon will pay in dividends and factor that into their price. If they feel the stock is overvalued, they will sell it to collect that overvalue and invest in something else. Broadly, if the price of Verizon goes down it is because investors feel the dividends will go down, which means something about the revenue - expenses = profit to pay dividends with equation is expected to change. Blanket tariffs are expected to make all expenses more expensive (replacement hardware, wage pressure, etc), which means less profit to pay as dividends and the stock is just objectively worth less than it was before.

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u/Fearless_Band_6433 29d ago

It's the Murdoch propaganda machine. The rightwingers get all their news from people who told them Kamala was a literal communist and would turn everyone trans.