What would happen to our economy if we didn't have a stock market?

Question

What would happen to our economy if we didn't have a stock market?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

People would not be able to invest in companies, and this is how companies expand. Any major company that really wants to expand its business needs to be floated on a stock exchange so people can invest in it.

Answer 3

That would be impossible.  Unless it became a government controlled economy somehow.

That's like saying, "How can people buy food if there is no food market?"  Well, some farmer would obviously rent a space in a town to sell his food and the market would inevitably be created.  Same thing for a stock market.  As long as there is a free market there will be a stock market.

Answer 4

Companies would find it rather difficult to get the money needed to expand without stock market investors...