without the Fed pumping it would be half of where it is - you must know that - right?

Reality is the fed strategy is to force you out of savings/bonds into the market to get less screwed by the real unemployment/inflation rate and real worls dollar depreciation, hidden under tons of government sponsored propaganda slavishly doled out by bought and paid more media lackies.  New Age economics.

If I had the Fed stuffing hundreds of billions of dollars in my pants every year I would be fat and happy like Wall Street.

Is this not a direct result of Bernanke's war on savers while playing savior to his Wall Street pals that own him.  Fake inflation and unemployment numbers to assuage the gullible, while the media sleeps through their repsonsibilities to question the propaganda rather then  just spread it ? This economy only needs spen...more

it will only get bigger, trust me.

Bernanke does not "talk up the market" he props it up with our dollars. No doubt after he leaves he will be welcomed back on WS with open arms.

Perhaps a good deal of the recent "weakness and volatility" is because the Wall Street Banksters and assorted other crooks are afraid their rich Uncle Ben Benjie will take away their "free" federal heroin that they have become addicted to. Oh, maybe Jubak forgot that is the only reason for the market surge over the las...more

I see you have a natural way of endearing yourself to strangers.  Prices are a direct result of the declining purchasing power of devalued dollars. Did you think we could wantonly overspend forever and there would be no price attached?  They have juggled and manipulated gov't issued stats (aka: propaganda) to hide true...more

actually, they hold hands while raping us.