You can't keep going up forever. The price for boundless growth must be paid. A negative savings rate, consumers swimming in debt, overinflated stock prices - it must all be reckoned with at some point. But the central bankers are loathe to admit that the economy may be in dire straits. But, dear reader, the stock market isn't quite that simple.
Human beings yearn for simplicity.
We don't want to do the hard work of studying the markets, poring over data, thinking, concluding, risking. We want the easy answer. Were the stock market that simple, we'd all be rich by now. But the historical record shows that most people don't hold onto their stock market profits over time. Because the stock market is not quite as simple as the Motley Fools would have you believe.