Unfortunately they’ll never keep up with the ‘demand’ for market manipulation unless they fix the ‘supply’ of scared people that have no stable store of value. What you’re witnessing, is a vote of no confidence in monetary policy, and a scared populace, unfortunate breeding grounds for small time scammers as in these stonks. I’m sure there’s more; people don’t know anything about what they’re investing in. That includes top investors and analysts. It’s all pump and dump, just more elaborate as it gets bigger.<p>I don’t know what the fed’s objective is anymore (actually ever), but a successful nation is one in which people are not concerned with finances at all, except that they put their minds and hands to socially-positive activity. Now our savings account is an endless gamble on stocks. Might as well be sports betting; that’s at least a lot more transparent.<p>I don’t want to put 10 seconds a year into thoughts about finances, taxes, housing costs, inflation, deflation, interest rates, stocks, bonds, Bitcoin, or whatever. But their policies are forcing me and so many other people to put our whole lives into it. It’s probably 80% of the economy right now, totally wasted on a few people’s failed theories about macroeconomics, the same people over and over again, covering for their mistakes with new failing theories and policies. Unfortunately we can’t just write it down mathematically, program it into a computer, release source, and be done with it. No; it’s based on their personal feelings at any given moment. Oh and by the way, it all just so happens to make them and their families and friends and business and religious associates impossibly wealthy. Must be because they “understand” more than we do. Sure.<p>I wonder if they ever think, “hey, maybe if we want less financial manipulation, we should stop doing it ourselves.” (Not the SEC; they just react.)<p>You should not be an investor. You should save until you have everything you’ll ever need, and then invest in things you know about, and only because the money is going toward something productive and socially-valuable, as in the society that you, individually, want to live in. This is the most powerful form of voting. Index funds don’t solve the problem. That’s just paying someone else to steal your vote.