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Re:We Just Witnessed the Fastest Stock Market Correction on ... by senordevnyc on Friday February 28, 2020 @06:52AM (#22442149)
Benjamin Graham / Warren Buffet have said [1] that in the short run the stock market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it’s a weighing machine.

1. Attribution is murky: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/01/09/market/

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Re:We Just Witnessed the Fastest Stock Market Correction on ... by Joker_vD on Friday February 28, 2020 @07:24AM (#22442267)
"Weighing machine" in the sense of "in the time it takes the fat ones to thin down, the thin ones die out", or?..
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Re:We Just Witnessed the Fastest Stock Market Correction on ... by rmrm on Friday February 28, 2020 @07:35AM (#22442329)
Strictly in the sense that over time it measures something. In the short term peoples opinions matter, in the long run company performamce matters. The stock price relates to earnings and capital efficicency etc over the long haul.
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Re:We Just Witnessed the Fastest Stock Market Correction on ... by bo1024 on Friday February 28, 2020 @11:44AM (#22444046)
That makes sense for one company's stock price versus another's. But it doesn't help me understand how the average behaves...
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