Women making huge progress in education (I believe that more people being in school is the real explanation of why labor force participation has declined steadily since around 2000. This article shows just how dramatic the gains for women have been.)
"Young women are making rapid gains at work and in the classroom. They're not only graduating college at a much faster rate than their grandmothers; they've also begun to outpace men in earning bachelor's degrees, according to a report released on Thursday by the Pew Research Center."
Some amazing advances in medicine related to Alzheimer's:
"Biogen Idec stock has reached new highs and added $40 billion to the company's market cap as its promising experimental Alzheimer's drug moves forward. The drug was so effective in early human testing that it will immediately skip to final-stage testing needed for approval, the company reported March 20. "
Also looks like the NASDAQ is already back at yearly highs after the little interest rate spoke that caused everyone on TUSCL to proclaim the sky is falling. Test of all-time highs looks not too far off. (Hey, I'm sure it's all over when that happens right skibum? SJG?)
I'm so wishing a drop or pullback or some other negative spin comes around to spook the markets. If things hold along our political climate, we stand to do well domestically for 10--20 years. My large caps have almost done 10% YTD (8.9% exactly). Still got room to run before piling into the mid and small sectors. Will rebalance after the rate hike scares are over, which will be later maybe next year.