Once again, I don't do public trading.... So you don't think the greedy/wealthy and well connected insiders investing in COVID stocks are driving this?
“Once again, I don’t do public trading....”
You don’t have to. Your insurance company usees the funds to do so and increase their revenues. Your savings are used the same way, Banks don’t sit on money it is re-invested to make more capital gains for the shareholders.
Unless you are stuffing your mattress with paper money and your gold bullion is under the floorboards in your back bedroom...
Any money you put in any institution is used and invested because those institutions have stockholders and stakeholders that depend on that institution to succeed in the markets. Or they invest somewhere else.
Like it or not, the name is Capitalism.