# My take on the current stock market rise

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 21, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-take-on-the-current-stock-market-rise/918681 "2020-08-21T17:04:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-take-on-the-current-stock-market-rise/918681/21 "2020-08-23T17:51:05Z")

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The pandemic is bigger than 2008 and climate change will dwarf either. Financial institutions like to think they run the world but there are a number of competing forces always at work. I’m old enough to remember when the Swiss bankers were supposed to be the secret masters of the universe. They weren’t.

I don’t want to trivialize the power of trillions of dollars. I just object when the complexity of power is not fully articulated.

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