... and the income-inequality gap will widen. Doesn't mean they're going to drop one thin dime to create more jobs, raise pay or increase bene's for average working joes, just that they'll have more dividend-dough to stash in the Caymans.

VERY happy to see my portfolio going up!

Kinda hard to be an investor as a single mom with a mortgage, a car payment & a teenager.

Can I trade stocks for ramen noodles?

He's still working at 72, but fortunately for him, loves his job. Anyway, we're definitely NOT trust fund types.

Well done. But, not everyone will benefit from the Dow spiking, was my point.

But sometimes I feel like success from hard work gets negatively treated. Believe me, we are NOT in the 1 or 2 percent. We just have a nice nest egg, which will get nicer the longer my husband chooses to/can work.
I wish you the best

401K retirement plan benefits.

The DOW is not just a playground for rich investors.

At least that's what that Gloomy Gus picture from a recent Wall Street Urinal showed.

My generation doesn't have jobs that offers pensions really. Contributions to plans suck, if existent. Money is too tight to contribute anyway, especially with health care insurance costs. A growing number of us are contract workers.

Our retirement plan is waiting for our boomer parents to die before spending it all on health care.

loaf that they've stolen from the entire population that includes you?

Or if they buy more cars. It's good for car dealers.

Decide to build an extension to their mansions. Good for general contractors, plumbers, masons, electricians, etc.

See how it works?

to make it work.

When people feel richer, and more financially secure, they buy more stuff.

The system probably could work, but as it is, it is a cycle of diminishing returns that requires continual expansion to overcome the effects of that constant and unavoidable drain and it exists in a closed system. The result is inevitable.

Interesting.

People fell richer when they actually are richer.

Just because companies are squeezing out profits does not indicate the population is supplied with plentiful employment that pays a living wage.

Including my grandmother who worked as a public school teacher for 30 years. Her mutual fund took a beating in the 2008.

Anyone who works for a living should have a retirement. Millions of middle class families do and therefore share in the gains that the markets have made under Obama. My modest nest egg has recovered from the Bush Great Recession quite nicely.

I know quite a few folks who used to criticize the movement in the stock market over the past 4 years under President Obama, but they completely block out of their minds, or forget, that the entire house of cards collapsed 4 months BEFORE President Obama even stepped foot into the Oval Office.

Republicans dug the whole, and are now criticizing Democrats for not climbing out fast enough!

to invest your own money in yourselves and your community than giving to an entirely extractive Wall Street con game.

Meaningless news if your retirement is tied to the market and you cannot sell to grab the profit now.

The hedge traders are making a mint on the upside and the downside, but not the working folks.

nationalized everything?

people said this did not reflect the real economy. People pointed out the low wage jobs and the fact real income had been stagnant. Now I guess it is different.

The Dow was at 14,164 on October 9, 2007. I think W was in office then or do you have better information? Anyone serious about the market knows it is idiocy to give credit or blame to presidents when the Dow goes up or down. But people still like to do it (at least when it is in their favor).

and so on, this time it's our side that's doing it, so it's for a greater purpose or there is no other choice.

But back to 2007 isn't where we need to be. It's depressing to think we've been running in place for the last 5 years.

Ah well!!!

do you think they call it White, anyways?

Oh, wait. Did we already have an election? And the market didn't collapse? And that Mayonasian meatier didn't wipe out all life on this flat earth, as a lesson from GOD because churches are gonna be forced to give abortishuns to all females on demand?

Well, I aint waitin until them UN troops in black hellychoppers break into my house to steal my guns just because some democrat party communist from kenya wants to take my bible and guns away from me! No sir! I'm gonna move to the new promised land, jest like Glenn promisiticated us true believers!