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by anon84873628 1316 days ago
IIUC the point is that index funds abstract the price of some stocks even further from earnings. Because a large percentage of the trade volume in those stocks comes purely from the index fund trades, rather than direct trades that would cause proper price discovery. So when the ETF bubble bursts, those stocks will see and even larger correction down than otherwise.

Happy to be corrected though.