Kahuana or anyone else that can respond with knowledge....

Just reading how the stock market is up 40 points for the month..up 18% in the last five years.....and up 44% for the last 10 years.

Knowing that we still have the debt...does that speak well for the economy (the good performance or at least average performance of the market), and in reading how disasterous folks are posting about their investments, how is that happening ?

May sound stupid but I am very naive in this area ! I have very little but what I have has been increasing and has gone up in the last month (see Bucco knocking on wood)