Financial Reports in the Daily Paper

I’m not really sure if this is a suggestion or a bug, but I am guessing it’s working as intended(?) so I’m putting it here.

I am new so forgive me if this is a known thing too I’m sorry. Also, if I’m wrong about the mechanics of this, I’m even more sorry.

Currently, the paper gives reports that I enjoy as a nice check and balance to the game, economic size, military size, these are useful facts. However, when it comes to the reporting on finances, there is a sort of loop hole, that seems kind of silly to me. I admit with the utmost guilt too, this came about through my own exploitation of said loophole.

When one uses capital to place a “purchase” order in the stock market, these funds effectively become Schrödingers Cat to the Newspaper. They exisit, but in a theoretical state, so the paper reports them not to exist, at all.

This loophole allows players who accur wealth to effectively stash there wealth in almost untraceable market trades. I myself report in the bottom wealth holders on Day 50 of a map I’m playin on, because I have millions tied into purchase orders for oil that no one can fill. This allows a player to device others about there finances I feel, using the games Newspaper.

I don’t know enough about the game to know if this ability to “stash” money can effect other areas, I just thought it a little strange that the paper treats the stock market trades as nonexisitsant. I’m not sure if there is a way to track a players total capital vs. hard capital but I think it would be more fair if the paper reported it as such.