Bernanke says the recession is over, so is now the time to pile into stocks?
The answer depends on your goals, the gap between those goals and your resources, and your outlook for stocks. I can't speak for the first two and while I can write about the third, I don't know what will happen next. But Fed Chair, Ben Bernanke, thinks that the recession is over. If he's right, does that mean the economy will be grow rapidly, thus boosting corporate earnings and stock prices? If earnings and stock prices go together, it might be time to buy -- but I just see massive uncertainty.
My lack of confidence in a clear path for stocks has to do with a raft of unanswered questions:
