[Godel_unicode]

So far, in this one specific downturn, sure. There is however a strong historical correlation between market downturns and widespread unemployment.

[scarface74]

https://blog.tornado.com/the-stock-market-is-not-the-economy...

[Godel_unicode]

That’s not responsive to what I said. It’s a snappy one liner though, so I guess cool?

[scarface74]

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4170913-unemployment-rate-a...

> An inverse relationship between level of unemployment and forward stock market returns. In the current quintile (2.5% to 4.4% unemployment), the average S&P 500 return over the following year is 5.6% versus and average of 12.7% in all periods. The best returns historically have come after periods of high unemployment

[Jorge1o1]

That’s forward stock market returns. AKA,__after__ everyone has been fired.

You need to look at what happens to stock prices during the recession/firing.

[Godel_unicode]

Again, cool, also unresponsive to the what I wrote.

[scarface74]

You wrote

> So far, in this one specific downturn, sure. There is however a strong historical correlation between market downturns and widespread unemployment.

Statistics show just the opposite

[Godel_unicode]

Of course they don’t, that’s not what your articles say. Did you read them? They, respectively, say that the market is forward-looking and that major gains are made after downturns.

It can simultaneously be true that major gains are made after downturns and that there has historically been a strong correlation between downturns and unemployment.