@Polfusilier @dictatordave @HoroTheWhiteWolf My pet theory is that retail brokerage logins were down yesterday because of DDOS to prevent retail investors causing a run while the plunge protection team used dark pool money to bolster the market. Japan's problems are actually unique to them even if everything is overinflated. As mentioned previously, the stock market is "up" because there's nowhere else for the flood of m2/m3 to go. If you do some math on REAL inflation rates and run it against growth of stonks since 2020, it's not a huge gain.