The Stock Market is the biggest inflated inner tube in history right now.
People have been pouring their money into it. All that Fed Pumped "money" had to go somewhere.
Market Watch (July 18, 2014) - We’re in the third biggest stock bubble in U.S. history
This bubble (obviously) is also made up of everyone's IRAs, 401Ks, and individual portfolios.
The geopolitical crisis we have now is causing fear, but that is only part of the story.
CNN (18 July 2014) - Fear returns to stock market
War in the Middle East, war in Ukraine, and instability everywhere. Our own US military has been cut, cut, and then cut again. On top of all of that, horrific decisions by Obama and Hagel have left it betrayed and demoralized.
A strong US military allowed the world to have economic stability and growth. The two were linked. The US military has been deliberately targeted, and now it cannot act in many instances even if we had the will.
A Stock Market crash is coming.
July 19, 2014 - Two signs a market crash is coming
