As "fear" capital from around the world continues to flow into stocks, what do you think the Fed is going to do?

US Stocks are constantly making new highs because RELATIVE to everything else they represent the best option for the big money that needs a market that can absorb their flows. If global capital thought the best place to park was in Europe, Japan or China, it wouldn't matter what the Fed does or how many buybacks there are, because investment flows swamp everything, including trade volume. Why do you keep ignoring this fact? Now that it looks like we will get a big decrease in the corporate tax, do you think the US will see more or less capital flows?

As corrupt and worthless as our politicians are, the rest of the world is even worse, and they are continuing to destroy their economies by finding new ways to confiscate money from their citizens instead of looking in the mirror and reforming. Europe failed to consolidate all their debts to have a true competitor to US treasuries, and Japan relied on nationalism to keep people from selling, which has also caused a demographic nightmare. Throw in the ease of Bitcoin to get the money out, and the US dollar will continue to rise even faster, which will accelerate the debt death spiral for all the foreign entities holding dollar-based debts.

If you haven't figured out the answer to my first question yet, you are as hopeless as the people that still think man causes the climate to change, Bitcoin is just a fad, or that socialism just needs one more chance. I'm sure there are many readers that do not have their heads buried in the sand, and can see what's coming.

Rates will rise with risks, and because the Fed does not want to be seen as a serial bubble blower, although that image was shattered long ago. However, since CB's and politicians never look in the mirror and admit a mistake, problems will get worse and all of these companies nursing on tits of CB's will implode, along with CB's and govt's, when no one will buy their debt at any rate.

Yes, stocks will retest support, which is still 10-15% higher, but make no mistake, the DOW will see 40,000 before the G5 cries uncle and re-jiggers the system one last time to save their perks and power. Of course, the more desperate govt becomes to get theirs, the worse the economy gets and the more the anti-establishment movements grow. I don't know how this ends, but it will get worse before it gets better, and it won't get better until short term-limits become reality.