There are a few companies with very high valuations concentrated in tech sectors. They skew the whole picture.
Of course stock market wealth is concentrated in a very small portion of the population. It does not represent the well being of the total population.
EndTheFed25 on
They pay a stupid amount in taxes (40-60%), they don’t have as much disposable income to invest.
No_Obligation4496 on
Where’s FTSE?
Also. Look up how many people Taiwan has if you want to do pure capita/local exchange.
snagsguiness on
Private equity markets vs public.
kittybeard on
Stocks have been disconnected from the rest of the economy for a long time now. So it is considered more as a form of gambling, at least by most europeans I have talked about it with.
The european stocks tend to be pretty boring. Not like in the us where percentages up or down are big and exciting. So everyone gambles with us stocks. Just look at that shitty electric car company’s stock, jumping around between $200-$400 in like the last 6 months when it should be $50.
East-Direction2091 on
Very good question. We also have the most refugees!!
KingKaiserW on
You know I just came off a thread where people in the EU were talking about a unified stock market where it would be held and someone brought up Brexit “Aha so Britain willingly gave up its opportunity to be the financial capital of a continent with more population than America?”
Sounds good when you say population, but as we see here…
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They’re not. Access to capital is different to economic success.
Asian companies are technologically advanced and tend to have more high-quality patents.
[https://www.academia.edu/40078465/](https://www.academia.edu/40078465/)
There are a few companies with very high valuations concentrated in tech sectors. They skew the whole picture.
Of course stock market wealth is concentrated in a very small portion of the population. It does not represent the well being of the total population.
They pay a stupid amount in taxes (40-60%), they don’t have as much disposable income to invest.
Where’s FTSE?
Also. Look up how many people Taiwan has if you want to do pure capita/local exchange.
Private equity markets vs public.
Stocks have been disconnected from the rest of the economy for a long time now. So it is considered more as a form of gambling, at least by most europeans I have talked about it with.
The european stocks tend to be pretty boring. Not like in the us where percentages up or down are big and exciting. So everyone gambles with us stocks. Just look at that shitty electric car company’s stock, jumping around between $200-$400 in like the last 6 months when it should be $50.
Very good question. We also have the most refugees!!
You know I just came off a thread where people in the EU were talking about a unified stock market where it would be held and someone brought up Brexit “Aha so Britain willingly gave up its opportunity to be the financial capital of a continent with more population than America?”
Sounds good when you say population, but as we see here…
Size of an exchange is meaningless