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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RabidRick, post: 1989818, member: 37868&quot;]... implying investing is synonymous with buying stocks</p><p><br /></p><p>What if the entire stock market was overspeculated? Then your &quot;estimated losses&quot; are pretty high since companies use this money for capital. If people start seeing a poor ROI they might turn elsewhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>As of recently this doesn&#039;t seem to be happening. I&#039;m not sure if that&#039;s because of stimulus/inflation or if the stock market will just magically keep going up and up in value forever (on average) as peope seem to believe it will. Again, I&#039;m speaking of the average, not individual companies so I&#039;m not disagreeing with anything you said. I just think there *has* to be an equilibrium at some point and I don&#039;t see stocks as a good investment when the entire market is saturated. This is assuming a completely diversified portfolio but just look at how many people are buying stocks vs. decades ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is not long-term as it is really an unbounded system, but in the case of another recession I could see the possibility of a downward spiral a ot worse than 2008. Nobody can predict the future.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as &quot;intrinsic&quot; goes, I&#039;m not one to debate semantics but I do find the conversation interesting. I still think the value of silver was much influenced by Lydia and the inventing of coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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