The stock market is a barometer of a nation’s health and wealth. Like it or not, it determines the level of confidence that people have for their institutions. When people cease to participate in this vital engine of wealth creation, the whole structure of a modern nation ceases. We will be turned back to the barter trade system and the guild system of producing goods of the ancient times. We will still survive; but we will be in the dark ages once more. read full review »