{"id":245336,"date":"2024-08-13T07:36:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T11:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=245336"},"modified":"2024-08-13T07:37:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T11:37:28","slug":"this-will-end-up-being-a-cautionary-tale-about-how-greed-pulled-the-american-people-back-into-the-stock-market-one-last-time-only-to-be-financially-devastated-by-the-coming-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=245336","title":{"rendered":"<h3><b>This will end up being a cautionary tale about how greed pulled the American people back into the stock market one last time only to be financially devastated by the coming crash.<\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/personal-finance\/american-stock-ownership-back-all-time-highs\">READ HERE:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Today, the proportion of Americans\u2019 financial assets invested in public stocks is nearing record highs, just shy of the peak seen in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Investor confidence, a strong U.S. economy, and superior historical performance over the last several decades is driving allocations to equities. In 2024,\u00a0<strong>41.6%<\/strong>\u00a0of U.S. households\u2019 financial assets are tied to the stock market.<\/p>\n<p>This graphic,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/american-stock-ownership-by-share-of-financial-assets\/\">via Visual Capitalist&#8217;s Dorothy Neufeld,<\/a>\u00a0shows the share of U.S. households\u2019 finances invested in public stocks over time, based on data from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/BOGZ1FL153064486Q\">Federal Reserve<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Stock-Ownership-of-U.-Households.jpg?itok=UEz4UgoW\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Stock-Ownership-of-U.-Households.jpg?itok=UEz4UgoW\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/Stock-Ownership-of-U.-Households.jpg?itok=UEz4UgoW\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"659\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"2e1e4e4a-cf7c-4f56-8923-575a213e2f0b\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Americans Are Investing More in Equities<\/h2>\n<p>Below, we show the share of financial assets invested in the stock market over each decade:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2024-08-10_15-14-00.jpg?itok=a223NQ5d\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2024-08-10_15-14-00.jpg?itok=a223NQ5d\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/2024-08-10_15-14-00.jpg?itok=a223NQ5d\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"af22e196-9ce9-4be7-8e6c-e1aa63f8e451\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Figures are as of January 1 of each year.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/personal-finance\/american-stock-ownership-back-all-time-highs\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/personal-finance\/american-stock-ownership-back-all-time-highs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}