{"id":348136,"date":"2018-02-14T00:34:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T23:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/stocks-arent-everything-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-02-14T00:34:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T23:34:40","slug":"stocks-arent-everything-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/stocks-arent-everything-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Stocks Aren\u2019t Everything &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-673022\">\n<div class=\"clearfix post-info\">\n<p class=\"authors\"> By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/author\/david-hathaway\/?ptype=article\" title=\"Posts by David Hathaway\" rel=\"author\">David Hathaway<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"date\">February 13, 2018<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"social-sharing\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"custom-buttons custom-buttons-merged\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"a2a_button_email\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/email?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2F2018%2F02%2Fdavid-hathaway%2Fstocks-arent-everything%2F&amp;type=page&amp;linkname=Stocks+Aren%E2%80%99t+Everything&amp;linknote=\" title=\"Email\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><!--img src=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/\/wp-content\/themes\/lrc\/images\/icons\/email.png\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Email\"--><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"print-page\"><!--img src=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/\/wp-content\/themes\/lrc\/images\/icons\/print.png\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Print\"--><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list\" data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/02\/david-hathaway\/stocks-arent-everything\/\" data-a2a-title=\"Stocks Aren\u2019t Everything\"><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2F2018%2F02%2Fdavid-hathaway%2Fstocks-arent-everything%2F&amp;linkname=Stocks%20Aren%E2%80%99t%20Everything\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\/><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2F2018%2F02%2Fdavid-hathaway%2Fstocks-arent-everything%2F&amp;linkname=Stocks%20Aren%E2%80%99t%20Everything\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\/><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter_tweet addtoany_special_service\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/02\/david-hathaway\/stocks-arent-everything\/\" data-text=\"Stocks Aren\u2019t Everything\"\/><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook_like addtoany_special_service\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/02\/david-hathaway\/stocks-arent-everything\/\"\/><a class=\"a2a_button_google_plusone addtoany_special_service\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/02\/david-hathaway\/stocks-arent-everything\/\"\/><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save addtoany_share\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/buttons\/share_save_120_16.png\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blog-content clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>90% of stocks are owned by 10% of the people. Propping up stock prices is not crucial to the survival of the average man. The stratospheric heights of the stock market have been produced by the dispersal of unlimited credit to certain favored bankers who don\u2019t have to obtain funds by hanging up a shingle with an interest rate that is high enough to entice savers to walk through the door.\u00a0 A fire hose of money is pumped into their institutions which then park a lot of that money in the stock market either directly or through collateral beneficiaries of the fraud.\u00a0 So, why do we allow the politicians and the news readers to suggest that the health of the economy is based on the height of the stock market? Most normal savers would benefit from a posting of actual market interest rates in bank windows.\u00a0 The real interest rate is out there.\u00a0 It is merely obscured.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, a gallon of gas was set at a nickel in Venezuela. \u00a0The real gas price was out there to be discovered by the market, if it had been allowed to do so. The technocrats are still working to find that price in Venezuela, but they will never be able to do so without market signals. \u00a0The same goes with interest rates in the U.S. \u00a0If the fed went all Volker on us and stopped shooting out money to privileged banks at fake low interest rates, we would eventually know the market interest rate.\u00a0 What kind of a sign would a bank have to hang in its window to get broke Americans to walk in the door with their piggy banks?\u00a0 How much interest would they have to offer to overcome fears of inflation or loss from an unstable banking system? What&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/02\/david-hathaway\/stocks-arent-everything\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Hathaway February 13, 2018 &#13; &#13; &#13; 90% of stocks are owned by 10% of the people. Propping up stock prices is not crucial to the survival of the average man. The stratospheric heights of the stock market have been produced by the dispersal of unlimited credit to certain favored bankers who don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-348136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}