How investing in the stock market, like the Fyre Festival, could end up in disaster

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Welcome to Wall Street’s version of the Fyre Festival. Or, as Vincent Deluard of INTL FCStone puts it, the “faking-it economy,” where you’ll find capitalism...

Or, as Vincent Deluard of INTL FCStone puts it, the “faking-it economy,” where you’ll find “capitalism without capital” and “employers without employees.”

Take a look at this chart, which shows what the “death-by-Amazon” effect is doing to the retail sector, where valuations are dominated by the likes of “immaterial” companies, that act as market places rather than makers, like EBay EBAY, +0.52% , Amazon AMZN, +0.50% and Booking BOOK, +0.31% . Now, he sees the script being flipped. “The prospect of another round of monetary insanity may result in a last heroic surge for the immaterial sector,” he wrote.The market The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.10% , S&P 500 SPX, +0.02% and Nasdaq Composite COMP, +0.17% are all leaning slightly higher in the early going. Gold GCQ19, -0.05% is also seeing a slight uptick, while oil CL.1, +0.42% is down. The dollar DXY, +0.37% is holding steady.

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