The Truth about Stocks and Economy

While the current economic state (in the USA but also elsewhere) is plainly obvious to many economists and analysts also discussing the economic bubbles, housing crisis, and affordability, not many (if any) recognize that we have actually been in a recession since the end of 2022.

This data is not readily observable because of the “K” shaped economy in which the wealth gap between the rich and poor grows wider, and the rich keep the economic numbers artificially inflated, but looking at data like the number of new home sales there is a clear economic stagnation which occurs at the tail end of the pandemic in which sales no longer rise but also become more squeezed as only a limited economic class is able to afford things such as housing.

The recession would have begun much earlier if it had not been for the stimulus money distributed by the Trump and Biden administrations each during the pandemic, which served to cushion the economic stress that was already bubbling under the surface. Biden’s failure to recognize the recession and the economic hardships suffered by the working class is one the primary reasons that his surrogate, Harris, failed in her campaign for president, because while citizens will put up with a great deal of problems economic hardship will always result in a change of leadership, especially if, like Biden they blatantly refuse to do something about it. In fact, one of the only times Harris’s popularity exceeded Trump’s during the 2024 campaign was when she began promising the prosecution of price gougers (reportedly her brother in law, a chief executive at Uber, advised her to stop doing that, and she did, and her polling never went up again).

In some of my recent articles I discuss things like the economy and stocks as measures of metaphysical principles of how the Universe and reality works which is observable in cycles of growth and decline, and this should not be misconstrued as endorsement of these systems and, as discussed in my article The Stupid Gene, my politics can be described as libertarian socialist, because I fundamentally believe that we should not profit off the economic hardship of others nor exploit people in our own personal quest for wealth. I believe it is a far better political and social philosophy to build wealthy civilizations, not wealthy individuals, in which we may all enjoy a stable, profitable economy, high quality services, and superb civil infrastructure, which does not occur in capitalist economies since its policy focus and production is inherently the personal enrichment of a small percentage of individuals at the expense of others.

During political contests, especially those which are National, economic debate is often centered on such metrics as the stock market and GDP, and while on the face of it this might seem logical only the top 10% of Americans own stock (93% of all stock, to be exact), and one of the real reasons Trump won (and he knows this too) is that while his opponents were accusing him and his voters of racism (which they often are but that’s beside the point) he was focused on economic populism which his opponents in both 2016 and 2024 refused to do, since a full 90% of Americans were not benefitting from the rise in the stock market. As President, however, Trump has now taken to crowing about the dizzying heights to which the stock market has grown during his presidency, though it was already rocketing upward since the pandemic and has done very little to actually improve the economic conditions of the people (the congress did finally pass a housing affordability bill, which is nice, but we’ll see if it helps anything).

To most people (including professional economists, analysts, and pundits) it seems contradictory and confounding that the stock market should rise so voraciously while the economy and the working class struggles. But in fact this is exactly how the stock market works, which is as a receptacle for the wealth of the elite, so the more wealthy the wealthy become the higher investment vehicles like the stock market also rise as they seek not only to protect that wealth but grow it even further. The problem with having money (in a capitalist system) is that, due to inflation, it loses value over time, so if you don’t actively invest that money in vehicles like stocks it becomes worth less as time moves forward, and there is only so much a person can do with millions or billions of dollars (well, they could build a lot of high quality infrastructure but they aren’t doing that) so they have no choice but to put it into things like stocks and other investments, so as the wealthy become wealthier their vehicles for investing their wealth, like the stock market, likewise also rise.

What’s more, it also appears counterproductive to elect an incompetent fool like Donald Trump to office with his many bankruptcies and corrupt behavior, but people who worship money and view material wealth as the pinnacle of human potential see someone like Donald Trump as a lackey who will take unlawful and immoral actions to grow their wealth, so they do not support him because they think he is skillful but because he is ruthless and amoral. Biden was also exceptionally corrupt, though he was simply better at hiding his corruption, funneling unfathomable amounts of tax payer dollars to the military industrial complex and its shareholders and failing to prosecute the plague of crypto scammers, gambling operations, and PPP fraudsters who used government rescue money to buyback stocks or invest (not to mention all the brouhaha surrounding his son), but the establishment liberals prefer someone like Trump to someone like Bernie Sanders even though they are supposedly on the left because Trump is actually closer to their politics of profit and exploitation.

But it is in part because of Trump’s corruption and incompetency that investments like the stock market boom, because investors know Trump will not only do everything he can, even unethically, to grow their money, and that he will also look the other way when they engage in criminal and unethical behavior themselves, so the market grows because worshipers of wealth see a comrade in office, not a liability, a man who is willing to do for their wealth what they would rather not themselves, or at least be seen or caught doing, someone they can blame for wrongs but from whom they directly benefit. This is why even supposed ‘liberal’ politicians like Schumer, Jeffries, and Pelosi don’t effectively oppose Trump because even when their supposed opposition is President their stock portfolio rises.

In my book,Under A Libra God, I discuss how cycles of economy are reflected in cycles which can be observed in the practice of real astrology (not silly entertainment astrology as is most common), and we are currently in the end of the current cycle in which there will be an enormous crash of the US financial system, which many people more educated than myself are also warning about, but which will not fully occur until after power changes hands this upcoming election, because the elite will then crash systems and try to blame it on the new leadership in order to prevent real change that curbs their ability to abuse the system. But the lesson to be gleaned from these things is that while money has a significant effect on our daily lives, money itself is not real, and so the systems we design around money are inherently unstable and unpredictable and lead to significant social discord and unrest. Excessive fixation on money is rooted in fear because we inherently know that money is not real, so when we accumulate even great quantities of money we still seek more because it is an invisible and insubstantial salve which fails to fulfill any of its promises, so those with means continue chasing the invisible promise and economic indicators like the stock market rise to irrational heights.

The joke really is on those who are wealthy, as they lead unfulfilling lives in spite of having more than most people can even dream, as having the means to do whatever we want is not a benefit to human animals, especially when we are traumatized and selfish and given to heinous or immoral behavior, because the debt for some things is far more costly than can be paid by even the vastest of fortunes. Real, tangible wealth is found in the most mundane of things—waking in the morning, a cup of coffee, birdsong, rain, sunshine, good food, a conversation with a friend, meeting new people, or listening to wonderful music. If you don’t know how to find that kind of fulfillment you must start rehabilitating your unresolved experiences of trauma which motivate the dissociation that prevents that kind of enjoyment. When you do, even when things are tough life will seem a wonder.