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Does increase in individuals investing in financial markets impede GDP growth?

Individuals can either spend on goods/services, save, or invest. 

1) Spending on goods/services directly increase GDP.

2) More savings allow banks to lend out more capital to businesses/individuals looking to invest or consume more. Assume the economy is not demand-constrained.

3) For investing in secondary financial markets (stocks/bonds/crypto), don't the money just stay in the brokerages not being spent or invested in future growth? 

I hope my question makes sense here.
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 No. When you invest in any of those things, you're buying the stock / bond / crypto from someone else, who is then doing something with your money. For example,  if you buy a share of TSLA, that share may come from another investor who could then use the money to buy something, or it may cone from Tesla who could use the money to build a factory.

Spending on things like factories or new technologies increases GDP more than consumer spending. If you spend $1000 on a TV, the only thing that gets produced is a TV. If Tesla spends $1000 on concrete to build a factory, the concrete gets produced, so we're already equivalent to the TV scenario, but cars also get produced in the future, so overall GDP growth is greater when people invest.