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Is it because for every american their only choice to get any retirement or any interest on savings is to put it into stocks? Followed by massive speculation that maybe (I dont know this part) is driven by machine code that not only follows trends but creates them by thinking if everyone is investing and line goes up, maybe this is where the money should go, which reaffirms the algorithm. Until it doesn't.
Surely these two things are a factor. That and companies continually laying people off, or cutting costs, or selling data which give the illusion of making money when really it's just juggling the books and has no long term future.
It's because they keep printing more and more dollars and issuing debt, those extra printed dollars have to go somewhere and they buy more stocks with it.
https://en.macromicro.me/charts/28906/SPX500-Index-vs-Dollar-Index
People/mainstream media just assume stock market goes up means the companies are more valuable -- for the past year or so it really just means the dollar has been going down aka inflation