Another thought... a healthy stock market is a sign TPTB are still in control.

[reformist2]

Given that increased profits these days almost always come at the expense of workers, Dems should never be heard crowing about the stock market - not until fundamental changes are made in relations between capital and labor.

[villager]

1. Today's Dems have zero interest in changing the relationship between capital and labor

indeed, their sponsors won't allow it

For that, you'd need a Labor Party, a Workers' Party, etc...

[aristocles]

2. Well, think again. The stock market IS NOT healthy

By Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — There are eerie parallels between the stock market’s recent behavior and how it behaved right before the 1929 crash.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/scary-1929-market-chart-gains-traction-2014-02-11

[PowerToThePeople]

3. stock market rises and falls at tptb command.

They want it up now.

[aristocles]

4. Is "tptb" shorthand for "they" or "the Illuminati" or some other meme by Alex Jones?

[PowerToThePeople]

5. You fail

at you try to discredit me.

TPTB are the 1%. They own the market. The rest of us and all our investments are just along for the ride.

[freshwest]

6. The Powers That Be. Soon to be The Powers That Were. Alex is busy shilling for Bob Barr now:

Last edited Wed Feb 12, 2014, 02:50 AM - Edit history (1)

Alex Jones Prays For Bob Barr's Return To Congress

...On his show last week, the InfoWars host saluted the Republican candidate’s supposed bravery in leading the fight to impeach President Clinton, telling him that “a lot of people died that went against Clinton, a lot of airplanes blew up, a lot of people got shot in the head five times and it does take backbone to try to impeach somebody when you’re going against gangsters like this.”

“We’ve got to get rid of the Clinton mafia and I think what you’re hinting at is that if we put you back into Congress, you are going to start investigating, bringing charges of impeachment up in the House,” Jones said.

Barr, who discussed his plans to impeach President Obama at November’s “Second American Revolution” rally, told Jones that he intends to recycle the articles of impeachment he brought against Clinton to use against Obama: “I took that documented, figuratively dusted it off, added a little language to it, and darned if it doesn’t sound pretty good with Barack Obama’s name in there.”

Later, Jones praised Barr’s congressional campaign. “We need to get him in there,” he said. “We’re going to pray and hope you get in there.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alex-jones-prays-bob-barrs-return-congress

Check their page for the rest of the RWNJs plans in 2014:

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/election-2014

Of course, the CT libertarian mantra is always that we have no power. That leads people to drop out of the Democratic Party even though the baggers know better. Look who's there to take over everything.

As far as anyone celebrating the corrupt stock market's numbers, employment is often dependent on it, so are cities and states that invest to build for infrastructure, pensions, maintain regulatory functions and social services. And to those who have pensions that are outside of Social Security, the health of the stock market is a big thing.

To a libertarian, all of that doesn't mean squat. All of that will all be swept away in their revolution and all of us will be free with our guns and dehydrated food to live in a cult under some RWNJ.

What could possibly go wrong?