Comic #5981: ags

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Panel 1:
Person 1: "I don’t get it. It goes up for no reason, it goes down for no reason. The stock market doesn’t make any goddamned sense."

Panel 2:
Person 2: "That’s the efficient market hypothesis."

Panel 3:
Person 1: "If the stock market made any goddamned sense, you’d be able to exploit that sense and capitalize on it."

Panel 4:
Person 2: "It follows that early stock markets should’ve made sense, then gradually made less since over time until we reached the balls-out, bananas-in-your-ears, Christ-jesus-but-why? level of confusion that we see today."

Panel 5:
Person 1: "This is a 400 year project that culminates in an absolute zero of sensicality. It is beautiful. And you should appreciate it."

Panel 6:
Person 2: "But what about these finance headlines that give reasons for things?"

Panel 7:
Person 1: "The purest variety of performance art."