Here Is Why The Dow Just Passed 13,000

http://www.zerohedge.com/ ^ | February 21 2012 | Tyler Durden

[Para-Ord.45]

Wondering why the DJIA just passed 13K again?

Wonder no more: as the chart below shows it is entirely due to the nearly $7 trillion pumped by global central banks into the world stock markets just in the past 4 years.

As Sean Corrigan from Diapason notes, the aggregate global central bank balance sheet has doubled in four years, after doubling in the 5 years before that. We would add that with the entire centrally planned ponzi scheme hell bent on preserving the illusion of nominal gains, global liquidity is now fungibly sloshing from one market to another with absolutely zero resistance whatsoever. At this rate, it should double again in 3 years, then 2, and so on. Will the Dow hit 52K in 5 years in that case? Why most certainly. Just ask any remaining citizens of the Weimar Republic. They know all too well about exponential stock market rises. They also know absolutely everything about the self-delusion that comes with chasing NOMINAL numbers. Oh, and before we forget, expressed in spot gold price, the central bank aggregate tally has moved from being the equivalent of 10 billion oz of gold, to just 8 billion. Guess what is 20% underpriced.

[HamiltonJay]

Simple...

Most of them lost their shirts back during the crash. So they are going to be gun shy, majorly gun shy for a long time yet.

But don’t worry sooner or later the exuberant excess will return, the hard lesson learned forgotten and everyone you talk to will be day trading again.

[Varsity Flight]

“. Like I said earlier, I gained back everything I lost in the crash “

This only depends on what VALUES exist at the time of “cashing out time (sold),” relative the time purchase (bought) price.

Food/essentials/oil/gasoline/transportation...new auto prices, are much steeper and climbing, even during the time of unemployment uncertainty.