The Stock Market Is Not the Economy on Steroids

This is a money show and we go out of our way for reasons I don't entirely understand, not to talk about markets. Since we record weekly, we wind up never talking about them, but they are important. We made a decision sometime in the 80s or 90s that we were going to have American retirement revolve around a 401k. The pension system went into decline and it took decades,. But at this point, most of the wealth that's not in houses or real estate for everyone in America revolves around what the stock market does from one week to the next.