I think a lot about the stock market.
I don’t hold any stocks (I, like the rest of the bottom 50% of Americans, can’t afford to), and I’m not interested in being a day trader someday or investing all my savings in the financial Plinko game that is Wall Street. I do, however, care a lot about how our national financial health affects common people and their daily lives. To that end, I think many of us implicitly believe that a rising stock market is an indicator of good national financial health -- but that’s not always true.