Investing has never been easy, but the last 15 years have been some of the toughest investors have ever faced, largely due to the fact that the US stock market has either been in a bubble or post-bubble Crash for most of that time. Indeed, we officially entered a bear market in 1999 (or 2007 depending on how you look at it) but because so much of the US's collective wealth and economic activity relies on financial speculation, the Federal Reserve has essentially blown serial bubbles to combat the collapse ever since.
Because of this, many investors today view the stock market with suspicion. After all, if the only investing environments that occur are speculative bubbles or gut-wrenching collapses, it's hard to find any fundamentally sensible reason to invest in stocks. (more)
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