Ah, the stock market. There is no longer need of sweat of brow or precision of acumen. Just buy and hold, invest for the long run, and get ready to eat the rainbow stew. The stock market will fulfill your wildest dreams. There is no such thing as a stock risk premium anymore, according to some economists.
Stocks are safer investments than T-bills, bonds, or commodities, and they have higher returns.
Sell the food and buy some stocks. I hear that train a comin'. This expansion will run forever. Their chipper assessment appeared just as financial markets were collapsing across Southeast Asia. Of course Asia probably does have a bright future, much as Europe could have been said to have had a bright future during the Black Death years of the 14th Century, for that appalling time of death and disease was eventually followed by the Renaissance.