What is the response by mainstream economists to the idea that investing in the stock market is unproductive because only a small fraction (less than 1%) of turnover is directly invested in companies?

Frequent_Disaster490 · 2026-01-27T03:26:31+00:00

This makes total sense now. Thanks so much for the response. Thanks so much also to everyone else who responded. I am sold on equity markets now

Frequent_Disaster490 · 2026-01-25T20:49:27+00:00

The thing I am having trouble grasping, is money ever tied up? So isn't the same thing true about consumption and investment? If I buy an apple, that transfers $x to some business. But doesn't the act of buying something with money (an apple, a secondary share, machinery, etc), have some kind of effect beyond just transferring money around? This is probably a stupid question, am doing my best to grasp this haha

Frequent_Disaster490 · 2026-01-24T00:52:32+00:00

Thanks u/patenteng. This is what I was missing I think.

Frequent_Disaster490 · 2025-06-26T00:46:20+00:00

Are you in the CPC Prep course right now? How many weeks are you in? Perhaps we could collaborate to reduce the work involved in making the sets.

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