Stlhd,

You claimed a fixed pool of money. If that where the case there could only be a $ of cash available for every $ worth of hard goods. There is not and your own ill informed examples of the stock market prove your claim false. If everyone sold 100% of their stock today the price would go through the floor as there is only x ammount of cash to cover the sale. The fact that stocks are sold at different times ,on margins, overseas etc account for the inflated value of such. Proving your point dead wrong about a fixed ammount of wealth. Again it is a dynamic system .