There are *never* more sellers than buyers-think about it. For every seller, there’s a buyer and vice versa. What happens is buyers hold out for a lower price and sellers have to meet that price. Conversely, prices rise when sellers hold out for higher prices and buyers adjust to those prices. There’s a negotiation going on, always. No one person or institution or group of institutions move the markets. This was first proven back in the 1920s with the rise of stock pools. Buffett has also said that he can’t influence the market with his trading. At most, a modest, transient, fluctuation in prices if the stock is thinly traded-think penny stocks. Agree with you that whole life insurance can be a safe place to put money. As long as people aren’t driven to it out of fear, I think it can be a rational decision.
Buffet is stuffing cash to put him in a position in the future to take advantage of buying after a crash...prophetic as usual if we just watch and take note.
There are *never* more sellers than buyers-think about it. For every seller, there’s a buyer and vice versa. What happens is buyers hold out for a lower price and sellers have to meet that price. Conversely, prices rise when sellers hold out for higher prices and buyers adjust to those prices. There’s a negotiation going on, always.
No one person or institution or group of institutions move the markets. This was first proven back in the 1920s with the rise of stock pools. Buffett has also said that he can’t influence the market with his trading. At most, a modest, transient, fluctuation in prices if the stock is thinly traded-think penny stocks.
Agree with you that whole life insurance can be a safe place to put money. As long as people aren’t driven to it out of fear, I think it can be a rational decision.
Buffet is stuffing cash to put him in a position in the future to take advantage of buying after a crash...prophetic as usual if we just watch and take note.