Mom, Pop, Brother and Sister have all been invited by the Federal Reserve Chairman to buy stocks. They have been assured that your government is committed to elevating stock prices. This gift to you is discussed daily on the financial news. Here it is, finally a gift to you. With the stock market close to an all time high you are being assured that it is going even higher by the very people who can make it happen.
But, Mom, Pop, Brother and Sister are still not jumping in. Perhaps they still haven’t recovered from the beating they took in 2008. Savings is being discouraged and saving is how Mom, Pop, Brother and Sister get money together to buy stocks. Perhaps they lost all they had the last time and haven’t been able to accumulate investable funds.
I am still short around 50 individual stocks and feel pretty confident.


