The stock market and economy have parted ways
There are some very strange happenings goings on with a small number of stocks. AMZN, TSLA, AAPL and a few others have seen stratospheric gains in the past few months with especially Tesla with no clear reason why. Not trying to knock tesla but there is something that I have never seen happening and given store closures, spiking covid cases and virus antibodies that seem to last months and in some cases weeks these are all very gloomy predictors. The typical explanations seem to be as follows(ordered them in my opinion has the highest probability of reality and weight):<p>#1 Interest rates are as low as they have been in an extremely long time, people&#x2F;institutions want higher returns so they are putting money into vehicles with higher returns(stocks).<p>#2 Given the Govt.&#x2F;Treasury has been printing money like crazy dealing with the pandemic, money in cash is not great, stocks offer better returns.<p>#3 Given sports are mostly shut down(primarily in the US) sports betters are putting money into stocks instead and betting there so to speak.<p>#4 People are using their stimulus checks extra unemployment money to invest in stocks.<p>All of these don&#x27;t seem to jibe, and alot of these stocks seem similar to what as known as a &#x27;melt-up&#x27; which precedes a meltdown, see 2000&#x27;s tech and 2008 financial crisis. I hope that is not the case but Tesla jumping 10-14% a day doesn&#x27;t seem healthy for the stock and the stock market in general and something very strange is going on.