About Stocks: Want in on the Next Google?
 | from Ken Little
Why doesn't the market just snap out of its funk and get back to the business of making investors wealthy? Because, as we all know, it is not the market's job to make us wealthy. Markets, at least those that operate in a relatively unencumbered environment, are about allocating resources (capital, mostly). Investments that offer good returns within acceptable risk limits will attract more capital than investments that offer a poor return or a very high-risk return. When investors are worried about risk (and return) in the stock market, they look to other areas and investments. When supply exceeds demand, prices fall. When buyers outnumber sellers, prices rise. It's pretty simple. The hard part is figuring out when and where you can take advantage of imbalances in supply and demand.
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