The US holds two-thirds of the world stock market cap, while representing 26% of global GDP

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by Sartew

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  2. That’s why we are a mess. It is all speculative money, with little use value.

    It would be much more interesting to know how much of that “market” value is materialized and how much is being used as collateral.

  3. Warren Buffet:  “I never bet against the US economy.”

    Being a layman, I view the stock market as gambling.  Analysis and economics will help you determine the odds of winning and how much.  There’s a worldwide view that the US stock market is a great place to park money in a perpetually inflating global currency.

    US dollar being a highly liquid and a prominent reserve currency helps too.

  4. The “secret” to interpreting this graph is to understand who it is that “owns” this market cap. Mostly billionaires or the Oligarchy.

    When the market crashes, they will still be the capitalists who will own the means of production and the “rest of us” will have to fight one another for jobs in their factories.

    If “we were smart” we’d recognize the scam for what it is, but what can I say “Capitalism” and “Democracy” are “holy words” that no one can argue with.

  5. Question:

    If you have money WHERE else but that US stock market would you invest? Doesn’t the answer to this question explain why the US leads the charts?

    Investing China? Nope.
    EU? Nope.
    Africa? South America? Nope.
    Canada? lol

    What’s left?

  6. It’s really not all that surprising and not as bad as the headline makes it seem.

    1. First, stock market doesn’t mean economy. It just happens that the US has a very mature stock market with good regulations that people trust so companies like to get listed in the US. Compare that to the #2 economy of the world, China, which has a pretty shitty stock market where the CCP interferes with the pricing and you can’t make money off it long term… not to mention the higher proportion of terrible companies listed due to how much newer the Chinese stock market is.

    2. US companies are global. They do business everywhere and make money everywhere. Take Coca-Cola, it’s a US company that’s publicly, but it makes a lot of money everywhere else. Profits accrue to America. The same goes for Apple products, Microsoft software/cloud, Google search, etc. America extracts a lot of money from the rest of the world and it’s all then traded on US stock exchanges.

    3. Fundamentally, the US economy has a lot going for it relative to the rest of the world. You heard about all that AI buzz? Whether you’re a European or Japanese company trying to get into AI, you’ll still have to buy Nvidia chips. Birth rate decline in the developed world/China? Well, the US has immigration.

    Just some highlights here, but point is, for all the problems the US has, the rest of the world isn’t doing much better. The US looks like a great place to park your money by comparison.

  7. It’s all Monopoly money. The UHC shooter was spot on with that backpack. None of this is real except in the pain that it causes every day people.

  9. The title is misleading. US holds 2/3rd market cap within the MSCI world index(23 countries) and not 2/3rd of the whole world’s stock market. Weirdly, India the 4th largest stock market with a $5.5 Trillion market cap, is not included in the MSCI world Index.

  10. More fake news from the Trumpers
    =

    There’s no way Biden/Harris would ever allow this to happen.

  11. I don’t think that this graph tells us anything.

    The US market might be – well probably is – a tad exuberant right now, but the US stock market value is largely decoupled from the US GDP. The world is globalised, and many company listed in the US create a large chunk of their added value abroad. This is the reason why the warren buffet indicator is not as valuable as it once was.

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