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walkingman

(10,831 posts)

6. The stock market seems to be driven more from social media than business practices.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat Feb 7, 2026, 12:09 PM

Feb 7

As citizens we have to try to keep up with inflation and there are not many ways to do this. There are thousands of stock market pundits pushing various stocks, and I think in many ways has become a more of a marketing thing than anything else.

Lots of insider trading, pump and dump, and although I am in...it scares me these days, especially because I do not have a lot of time to recover from a black swan event.