Stock Market

I have absolutely no idea how the stock market works. This may come as sort of a shock to you, but I am sort of an idiot when it comes to certain things. The stock market is one of those things. But let's be realistic here, literally no one around my age knows how the stock market works. Does anyone really care? I would think that people who actually have money invested in it do but it is literally the last thing on my mind. But even though I may not care, I do notice these things are happening. Lately, it seems like everyday I look at the news it takes a gigantic tumble down for absolutely no reason. I honestly think these are the reasons becasue there is no other logical explanation.

or...

Obviously these are not the reasons but everything I am reading is giving even dumber reasons. A direct quote from something I read said... "Rising fears of another recession hammered U.S. stocks on Thursday." Seriously? People are lossing millions of dollars because people think something is going to happen? I don't know anything about stocks and that just seems fishy to me. Just saying.

All of this is idiotic, I am sorry. It is almost as idiotic as the Mayans predicting the end of the world. Actually...