shares should represent real economy values. but if the shares reach up to a value that is not represented by the real economy value, some of these share values are obviously illusional. The illusion could collapse just any time. And lately it did. This is not about selling real good and items! this is about stockmarkets! there is a reason why economosts make a strict separation between stockmarket and the term "real economy".
Example today: in Germany, VW was a classical "Volksaktie", but Porsche since a long time has aimed at taking it over. Now they are close to it. That is the actual situation, and yesterday due to the relatively close deal for Porsche to get another wave of shares from VW so0 that Porsche gets the majority, the value of VW went skyrocketing into the air by a 180%. If you think that is much, it was nothing to today. For some time today, on paper VW was the most expensive company in all the world, the share price going over the top by another win of more than 300% to more than 1.000 euros . The german DAX completely was loosing today, but due to the paradox effects of VW shares alone nevertheless the DAX today ended with a solid plus - that nevertheless is distorting the real value of the DAX. Everybody knows that the VW shares are not worth these ridiculous ammounts of money, it'S just coming from psychological effects that everbody learns that VW shares become rare because Porsche is activating long prepared buying options for VW shares soon, thus VW shares become rare. But the humercial avialability tells oyu othign about the real economy value, the profit margins by investing into the VW industry, of the company. Or do you think VW really is the most vluable and expensive company in all the world...? Read my lips: it is a BUBBLE, and nobody denies it.
That'S what bubble-money is about.
If stockmarkets start to raise values that have no actual representation in the real economy, then you get problems sooner or later.
In some time, the VW paper will fall down again, even when it gets temporarily banned from trade, as it is demanded right now due to the massive distortions it inflicts on the rest of the market. Then, hundreds of millions of money suddenly will dissapear, although VW still is what it was before this fata morgana, not more, not less.
A fata morgana is real, you can see it, you can be sure that the pohenomenon itself is existent - you just see it, right?
But what it shows you is unreal.
Stockmarkets are like an unreal tournament, seen that way.
If you look close, you see that much of america's economical and finacial probelms have something to do with creating bubbles, and then seeing collapsing again. There are some very serious distortions, and all world is affected by it. but the centre of the cause lies in america.
There is no perpetum mobile of making money, like there is no perpetum mobile in physics. One only needs to look close enough, or far enough into the future, to see the costs. A very popular cost for example is inflation.