stock market stagnation? What the hell is that? Is that when it neither goes up or down? Did you go to school with these delusional history professors... or are you bitter from PA?
Stock market stagnation is when it is impossible for average investors to make $ in the market unlike the 8 Clinton-Gore years when most Americans enjoyed unprecedented prosperity and the economy grew to the tune of 23 million new jobs.
Just look at the prices of AA, GM, F, INTC, MSFT, and other once-great U.S. companies over the past 7 years. From 1993-2001 a monkey throwing darts at a board could make $ in the market. Not any more.