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Stupid question: When the stock market goes down 3 trillion or whatever, does that money go anywhere? (hexbear.net)

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Like, are there any winners in this equation? I know we talk about money not being real, but like, how not real is it? Where do those trillions go?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That money never existed. If everyone tried to pull out of the stock market at once, the banks would run out of money in seconds. As for people making money on the turmoil: everyone that knew the tariffs were coming sold a bunch of stocks at the peak and were able to buy more when it crashed. This is basically a total market pump n dump.