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Re:How Sick Is the Stock Market? by inversionOf on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @01:39PM (#10118225)
as the trend over a decade or more will always be "up"

This is a growth based analysis (in effect a form of pyramid scheme), and it increasingly simply isn't true, as many in Japan are discovering. As populations flatten and eventually decline, most of the established dogma will fall.

Re:How Sick Is the Stock Market? by scott_karana on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @01:54PM (#10118327)
I agree with you, but unlike Japan, the immigrant population in America is burgeoning. It'll probably just delay the fall of the curve, but who knows?
Re:How Sick Is the Stock Market? by nulltype on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @02:28PM (#10118571)
codingdave seems pretty certain