TEXT 2

“The idea that the Swedish economy is headed for (01) a crash is nonsense,” Blomkvist said.

“You have to distinguish between two things – the Swedish economy and the Swedish stock(02) market. The Swedish economy is the sum of all the goods and services that are produced in this country every day. There are telephones from Eric, cars from Volvo, chickens from Scan, and shipments from Kiruna to Svovke. (03)That’s the Swedish economy, and it’s just as strong or weak today as it was a week ago.”(04)

He paused for effect and took a sip of water.

“The Stock Exchange is something very different. There is no economy and no production of goods and services. There are only fantasies in which people from one hour to the next decide that this or that company is worth so many billions, more or less. It doesn’t have a thing to do with reality or with the Swedish economy.”

(05)“So you’re saying that it doesn’t matter if the Stock Exchange drops like a rock?”(06)

(LARSSON, S. (2009). The girl with the dragon tattoo. Vintage, pp.626-627.)

From the character’s explanation, the most probable answer to the question in (05)(06) is