A very big picture discussion requires a considerable baseline.
The stock market is not the U.S. economy; the stock market is an investment instrument that determines valuations of economic activity company by company. The valuation is considerably arbitrary, based on the determinations of the arbiters (investors). This is empirically true.
However, that said, how would the multinational underwriters, the multinational financial systems, reset all transactional tables (the bookkeeping systems underneath the valuation) …if the U.S. stock market was every forced to re-value economic nationalism over multinational globalism? Enter “Coronavirus”.
Four years ago CTH first explained a new way to look at the U.S. economic system and how Main Street was/is disconnected from Wall Street. We presented a metaphor to explain. Before going deeper into the discussion of tomorrow; and at the request of several people who now accept the era of “deglobalization” is upon us, I first present that prior reference & then will use this as the baseline to describe what could come next.
There is a key phrase at the fulcrum of everything past:
…there had to be a point where the value of the second economy (Wall Street) surpassed the value of the first economy (Main Street).
What we are going to outline in part II is the possibility what happens when this natural truism is reversed. The objective is to answer: How, specifically would Wall Street reset its evaluative systems if Main Street once again emerged as the priority?
But first, a baseline revisit is needed.
