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How the Stock Market Abstracts Finances — Part 2

Gerald McAlister
5 min readJul 30, 2019

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This is the second part of a 2 part mini-series on the stock market. You can read part 1 here.

In part 1 of this, I talked a bit about the basics of how the stock market works. To quickly summarize it, a stock is a piece of ownership of a company, stock exchanges allow for anyone to purchase or sell stock, and stock has value as a result of its ownership piece of a company. For…

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Gerald McAlister

Software engineer, hardware tinkerer, focused on VR, AR, AI, & Web3. I write about whatever crosses my mind, but try to focus on business vs tech vs philosophy.