Economy in slowdown, stock exchanges on record: here are the reasons for the paradox

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Among the fears for inflation, for the reduction of monetary stimuli by the Federal Reserve, for the two US rate hikes expected as early as 2022 and for the slowdown in economic growth (confirmed yesterday by various indices), the stock exchanges are doing ? Do they collapse? Do they panic? Far from it: they fly to new all-time highs. On Wall Street on Monday, the S&P 500 index hit a new record (led by stocks like Tesla and Paypal) and the same blaze hit the Dow Jones index …