Can the author be a little bit specific?

The CEO said "the U.S. capital market system is quite frankly the envy of the world." Yet the author changed it to "U.S. economy 'envy of the world'".  WOW.  Call it lying through the teeth!!!

How are you sure it's not manipulators who brought the DOW from 700 in 1982 to 12000 today?

"Markets should rise and fall on company performance" is a myth.  The market is a scam to begin with.

Charley is laughing at us again!  LOL

Quote Eric H:            It's funny when people who have no idea how the stock market works have opinions about it. And it's even funnier when people who have no idea how the stock market works gave their life savings to strangers they never met to "invest" in the stock market.

Those financial advisers or experts talked people into believing stock market is a good place to put their hard earned money.  They repeated the lie ten million times.  Now the average people believe it.  The whole market is a giant scam.  All the experts and economists that promote it have their vested interest in it....more

The stock market didn't take off until 1982.  That's when 401k started.  Naive workers put their money into the system and sent the index fly.  That is the only reason the stock market didn't die as predicted by that article.

Who are they?  Your friends?