Because the U.S. has "printed" plenty of money in the past two years and is going to "print" some more: http://blogs.forbes.com/greatspeculations/2010/10/04/lo

Because the U.S. has "printed" plenty of money in the past two years and is going to "print" some more: http://blogs.forbes.com/greatspeculations/2010/10/04/looking-like-bear-prints-leading-us-into-october/ http://blogs.forbes.com/greatspeculations/2010/10/04/looking... Adding more currency without backing is a sure way to cause inflation, I hear. How they've been avoiding this is by China and then the U.S. sinking money into U.S. Treasury bonds, I hear also. When the U.S. makes claims that the economy is not good (which they've done quite a bit), I wonder if they are trying to influence investors to invest in these bonds rather than stocks, or if they were really trying to warn us that something bad is coming. Either way, as a consumer, I'm worried.