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Ekarosyesterday at 7:45 PM2 repliesview on HN

The market has been heavily engineered and gamed to be positive sum. But sometimes I wonder could it turn out to be negative sum on certain timescales. That is that overall money would be lost on markets.


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svachalektoday at 1:38 AM

It can certainly be negative sum for a generation at a time, say 20 years. The US stock market has the good fortune of not doing that in a long time but if you look around the world for example Japan these periods are not hard to find.

tomrodyesterday at 9:49 PM

This is more or less what Ray Dalio was getting at with The Changing World Order, IMO.