uniquelym is with them asserting this stock market disconnect, or what is going on now, and associating it with some monetary policy thing, when that is true all the time. when you were under the vulgar era and interest rates were 20 plus percent, the stock market was very disconnected from what workers were experiencing at that time as well. this is an ever present thing. i read a bunch of pieces to make sure i was arguing into the best points of the argument, and none of them are making the case that the stock market is disconnected. they are specifically focusing on these areas and emphasizing this monetary policy distortion. romaine: an interesting argument here. nathan, great piece there. us, publisher and money of modern network. on the other of the argument, bloomberg call is -- columnist case are will be joining us next. we will have that conversation with him in just a moment. this is bloomberg. ♪ joe: all right. the stock market is not the economy -- or is the stock market the economy? i'm confused. there seem to be a lot of different opinions about the correlations between st