The economy is not the stock market.
Volume is relatively low, fewer players with big insitutional investors throwing in their bailout money. Small investor generally on the sidelines.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010...ries-on-why-the-stock-market-has-rallied.html
If all of you could go out and get a new 50,000 credit line and max it out, your friends will come over and look at all you rnews toys and comment how prosperous and successful you are.
Then 5 years down the road, you will likely have debt problems.
Uncle Sam, however, is able to keep getting a new $50,000 credit line each time the things starts to creak and groan under the weight and the real issues are pushed further off intothe future.