• Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    ELI5

    There are 10 Charizard Pokémon cards in existence (# of outstanding stock)

    Each card is worth $100 today, $1,000 total value

    Tomorrow the price falls to $90, $900 total value

    $100 was “wiped”

    If the charizard card is worth $80, $90, $100, or $110 will continue to play out.

    If it did the opposite and price of each card went to $110 then you could say $100 was “injected” into the market.