[ducttape45]

I can’t understand why the Stock Market keeps climbing while the economy is in shambles.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Because the Fed controls the market, the market has no relation to what is going on in the real world but it is sold like it is.

[Publius]

I can’t understand why the Stock Market keeps climbing while the economy is in shambles.

You're ignoring international capital flows. The US has the least worst economy among the industrialized nations. Europe is edging close to a war that will almost certainly be nuclear. Capital is fleeing to a safe haven, and right now we're the safest haven of all even with our current problems. International capital flows go mostly into the Dow, which is the index that is showing the greatest gains.

[Semper Vigilantis]

Stock’s worth more when the dollar is worth less. Just imagine what Wonder Bread stock will be worth when it takes a wheelbarrow full of cash to buy a loaf.

[DoughtyOne]

I wander if the fed is behind this.

[Varsity Flight]

#12631

https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/12631.html

State teachers
State police and fire
Government pensions

All into the “market”
12631 backstops everything.