[jwparkerjr]

I wonder how much of the run up we’re seeing in the DOW has to do with inflation. Is it possible the market is the first place inflation will become readily apparent? Is it possible the market is becoming a money laundering system for all the money being printed by the government without a matching increase in goods or productivity?

I have no understanding of these things, but sometimes an idiot can see something those too near the forest miss!

[SeekAndFind]

I wonder how much of the run up we’re seeing in the DOW has to do with inflation.

My personal opinion is that the markets are "forward looking". With the amount of spending the government is committing and a Congress that is controlled by one party with a senate that has RINO's like Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins practically acting like Democrats, there is very little resistance to the expansion of government. With government expansion, come spending, with spending comes either -- increased taxes, more debt or more printing of money. If we have this, then inflation is not far on the horizon. This is what the markets are anticipating right now. Notice the run-up in the price of Gold and Silver the past few weeks -- these commodities usually run up in anticipation of inflation.