> First, think back to news stories from 2007. Everybody's house is going to keep going up in value forever. Wall Street is an obvious place to go if you're sma

> First, think back to news stories from 2007. Everybody's house is going to keep going up in value forever. Wall Street is an obvious place to go if you're smart and ambitious and want an easy way to make a lot of money. Maybe I'm old, but I remember none of these stories. I understand your point here (and there are a group of successful traders whose main "technical indicator" is headlines from a certain set of periodicals; they trade against whatever the consensus is), but I'm sensing the gathering of reeds for the strawman construction just a wee bit... =)