Some of us have read subversive left-wing propaganda - Like Forbes /s. (And if you don’t know what Forbes is, and has been, then you probably shouldn’t be commenting of a stock thread.)
How The Fed Is Helping To Rig The Stock Market
http://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2013/01/30/how-the-fed-is-helping-to-rig-the-stock-market/
And recall when the market took a still not honestly explained sharp drop a few years ago, some of the investors who were burned had their positions unwound, other folks had to eat their losses.
Uh, Randall Lane is hardly a right wing truth teller.
Yes, you see, the market goes up. The market goes down. Thats how it works. Is Fed pumping helping the economy in the short term? Yep. Is it inflated and will it pop eventually? Yep.
But at the end of the day, companies are making products, and making money, and in the long term will continue to do so. And long term investors will reap the rewards the market provides.
How much of a bath did you take in '08? Haven't heard much, lately, about plowing your SS deduction into a stock portfolio...