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asfgionio2346on Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in more than 4 years

>It appeared to many observers that Musk was mocking the Russian propaganda, he then made the mockery explicit later.

"I think the President and a small group of people know exactly what he meant."

asfgionio2346on Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in more than 4 years

I find myself confused about the purpose of stock markets. How can we arrange our society around a system that is so massively irrational? A few years ago Tesla was worth as much as the rest of the car industry put together. Even if you believed Tesla was going to become a perfect monopoly, its valuation still would not have been justified. Now people are acting like the sky is falling when this pipsqueak manufacturer is still (supposedly) worth twice as much as Toyota.

The most spectacular failure I know of is the case of Twitter. We knew the value of the stock to the penny starting in April of last year, but for months it traded at over a 25% discount. Why do we pretend this system of price discovery works when it can't even discover a price that has been printed in newspapers?