I don't believe in this "producers" crap....maybe in the time of Henry Ford..our present day ultra rich are money changers and nothing else...
You speak the truth. Back in the day, real investors and builders put their own money at risk to make things, hire people, and produce.
Small business still do that, but they have gone down by the hundreds of thousands in the last few years.
The big corporations all have ties to foreign manufacturing, and big money via the Central Banks. Hence, the manipulation of stocks.
We don't have many real "investors" anymore either. We have money gamblers and Central Bank Teat Suckers. When the interest rate is raised by the Fed, look for the cockroaches to find a dark hiding place.