BS answers?
If you’ve been investing for a long time, you’re a slow learner.
Market rising is an indication of inflation. That is all the past two years have been in the stock market; Bernanke prints bucks and goes shopping at the stock market. He can bid whatever he wants; it doesn’t cost him any more than the jug of ink. but when you want to play too, you can’t print money unless you want to live at the Levenworth Hotel.
Didn’t a lot of that printed money go to buy stocks? That’s what I’ve heard from several people.
They want to pump up the market to give the illusion that a recovery is underway.
Without QE-3 or some kind of pumping there will be no more inflation just deflation. Of course, things can change overnight but the mad rush is a flight to safety in government bonds, the US$ and gold (acting like a currency now).