@tk @pasture like i guess in a deranged way you can use stock quotes, and traders do, by like making your own index of "here's every business in transportation" or "here's every business in food" and then *those* going up or down can kind of forecast how speculators feel about food and shipping, but they ... don't. it's just like

oh naw the top 100 corpos took a shit/puffed up their stonks, this somehow means anything to john q public