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How do bonds & shares relate to the money supply?

Non-eocnomist here. I'm trying to understand how money works, and what "money supply" means. I understand about how banks take deposits and lend them out, turning short term loans (the ...
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Is it possible for the stock market to beat inflation forever?

Just a few thoughts on the possibility of markets beating inflation in the long, long term (say, hundreds of years). I am a theoretical physicist, not an economist, so please forgive my ignorance. I ...
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What happens to Deposits when purchasing stock shares or money market fund shares?

I'm trying to understand the flow of money into the shadow banking sector, e.g. what happens when deposits are transferred to either a brokerage, or a money market mutual fund (MMMF), and specifically ...
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Is excess liquidity necessarily a leading (not lagging) indicator of market performance?

I'm basically looking at this chart: At first glance, I'm not sure it's clear as to why excess liquidity (money supply growth less GDP growth) is charted a whole 12 months ahead in the series. I ...
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How can the stock market keep growing indefinitely?

It sounds like a dumb question, but there is only so much money in the world. Assets can grow, but money can only be printed. So if there is 400 trillion dollars worth of money in the world, and the ...
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How does the Fed's stimulus push stocks markets higher?

I read that the Fed’s stimulus last March has contributed to a spectacular rally in stock markets. And indeed S&P500 has increased a lot since March. But how does the mechanism work? How does the ...
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Inflation and stock price

I have indicated my understanding and problem on the attached image below. I'm a bit confused on the impact of inflation on stock price. As increase in inflation would cause nominal interest rate to ...
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When a stock market crashes, how does money just disappear?

I looked it up online (here), but I find it hard to believe that money literally "disappears". For example, if I buy 10 stocks of a toaster company for \$100 per share, and then the stock value drops ...
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How exactly do Participatory Notes induce volatility into the economy?

I was reading up on participatory notes. Wikipedia defines these as "instruments issued by registered foreign institutional investors (FII) to overseas investors, who wish to invest in the Indian ...
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