Roll eyes. Over 20 years ago the federal government pretty well neutered interest rates to goose the economy along. One of the side effects of the internet is less need for brick and mortar retail so less real estate development for that unlike previous times. Younger people are moving back to the city in part to save money on transportation so less urban sprawl because fewer housing developments are being done. All these factors resulted in a funnel effect in terms of money being pushed into the stock market. The largest generations period namely the Baby Boomers and Generation X are in the process of going from net investors to net sellers. This will serve to push stock prices down. Government will try to print money to offset this but that will create inflation such as we are seeing now. It also creates more questions of fairness as "why for thee and not for me" in terms of bailouts. I'd argue that the last few federal bailouts dating back to the dot.com bust were done to save the investments of a small portion of people in this country. Most people here still have no direct investment in the DOW, NASDAQ, etc.. At some point there will be a day of recogning as all the federal stimulus will not keep stocks pumped up as there will not be enough private money to catch all the pins the markets are juggling now.
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