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THE STOCK MARKET OF THE MIND
Jon Rappoport
If you have ever bought stock, you know it's like going to Las Vegas and playing craps or roulette.
Yet, the whole nature of the stock market is supposed to be about companies finding a way to finance their growth.
A company "goes public." That means it issues a certain number of shares of stock and enters them into the wild world of a stock exchange. The company hopes the initial price of a share will go up. That means the company is suddenly worth more. Has more. Can borrow more.
Right away, this is very odd. The company wants investment capital, and in order to get it, it offers stock for sale, but in a market where the fluctuating price of that stock is subject to factors that have NOTHING to do with the intrinsic worth of the company.
Rough analogy: You have a company, and you secure a single investor who puts ten million dollars into your operation. But from week to week, from day to day, from hour to hour, his ten million suddenly becomes 15 million, and then eight million, and then nine million. It just happens. And you have no control over the bouncing ball.
Another rough analogy: Your company secures backing of 100 million dollars, but immediately that sum falls into the hands of a man you don't know who is sitting at a table in a casino playing poker with it.
If he begins to lose badly, public confidence in the value and prospects of your company disintegrates, and people shy away from investing in you.
To make matters worse, the poker game in which your 100 million is involved---the whole game---may be rigged.
Your company might be doing quite well in terms of manufacturing efficient widgets and selling them all over the world---but the price of your stock is falling like a stone.
What kind of mind does it take to play this game in the first place?
Whether you want to admit it or not, it takes a mind that believes something can be created from nothing. Because that's what you're doing. You're issuing pieces of paper called stock shares, and you're anticipating that they'll soon be worth a great deal of money.
As I keep emphasizing, this has a connection to what an artist or an inventor does. But there are differences. The artist "issues" pieces of paper, too, but they are covered with paint. They are new worlds. First and foremost, their value isn't money, but instead whatever value the artist sees in them. The artist may want other people to find something important, too, but whether that happens or not, it doesn't essentially affect his own opinion or feeling or satisfaction or joy or ecstasy…
During Van Gogh's lifetime, his "pieces of paper" were worth nothing in the public marketplace. Now they are worth millions. But the paintings themselves are what they were---they're the same paintings.
The value of a company's stock in the future may go up or down or both. That future is determined by people who buy and sell the stock. Nothing else is important.
But what about your future?
Your future is what you create. You imagine and create it. That takes a very different kind of mind. A very different state of mind. And how well that future turns out…that is a judgment only you can make. You make it on the basis of how deeply that future reflects what you truly and deeply desire. Did what you desire come to pass? Did you create THAT?
Or did you create something else, because you thought you should pay attention to and appease "the consensus?"
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com