Reading through this thread one theme keeps keeps cropping up:
"1929 is calling and they want their year back."
The amount of street level, market expertise and knowledge is directly related to the amount of "free money" that central banks have printed since 2009 and exponentially mega printed since 2020. The markets are awash in trillions upon trillions of free money. This free money has caused a massive bubble in the 3 assert classes: equities, property and bonds. Folks, this free money is the only thing keeping these bubbles filled, however you may believe they are filled with hard cash and asset based cash, but in reality it is but a transitory illusion.
The central banks and thus the financial, property and bond markets are addicted to free money. A turn of the screw so to say, a turn down of the free money taps will cause a calamity in the markets.
This is not capitalism at all. Central bank intervention in capital markets is the antithesis of capitalism.
Seriously folks, the FED, not the hourly, daily, weekly, quarterly ins and outs of XYZ or HGY or this or that, makes the market.