re: What is keeping the stock market up?

Money be like

Inflation

This is the single reason that social unrest and all that goes with it does "NOT" happen.

Middle Class will take shots, masks, unequal justice, stolen elections, millions entering the country and anything shoved up their arse as long as their 401K's are going up.

We are sell outs. Dems will keep interest rates at ZERO so Tech Companies can expand and dominate. Then INFLATION will kill all small business so soon there will be only Amazon and Giant Corporations.

Notice Exxon was removed from the Dow Index of Companies. There was a reason for this.

It is all controlled. The rich will short stocks at some point before they buy them back. We deserve everything we get for being simpletons.

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FYI, Folks with large cash positions are likely to see a buying opportunity subsequent to a 3-5% pullback at some point in the next few weeks.

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My gut said that 5 months ago, but I stuck with it and as a result my portfolio has still increased by 13% since then. I don't know what the compounded annual rate of growth would be based on that growth, but I was fully expecting negative gains and willing to ride it out. I'm starting to get that same gut feelz that it's time to pull back, take a cash position, and be prepared to get some super deals. Historically, my (informed) gut has been right probably 75% of the time. Right now, I'm probably 50% there to pulling the trigger and dump stocks. This administration is in a boat race to collapse the economy.

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The Fed can’t afford the interest payments on the massive debt. Rates rise their probability of default increases.

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Replace with USA

I'm just waiting on the day everyone's stock portfolios is at all time high and they go into Walmart and there isn't anything there.

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Smoke & mirrors

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... and the ease of investing today for everyday amateurs like me. Unfortunately, many not like me are "investing" in stocks as a form of online gambling.

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I'm just waiting on the day everyone's stock portfolios is at all time high and they go into Walmart and there isn't anything there.

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Nice line!

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Not an expert on this subject, so explain it to me like I'm 5. Does this mean inflation will get out of control through the winter?

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"Let’s take a look at the U.S. bathtub. During the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, the faucet was wide open.

Between December 2019 and August 2021, the U.S. money supply, measured by M2, grew by $5.5 trillion, a stunning 35.7% increase in only a year and a half, driven primarily by the Fed’s purchases of Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities. In light of anticipated Federal Reserve tapering, we estimate that by the end of 2024 the money supply will grow another $5.1 trillion.

Out of the total $10.6 trillion in new money, real GDP growth will drain roughly $1.4 trillion. Another $1 trillion will flow down the money demand drain.

Since the amount of money flowing into the bathtub far exceeds the two outflows, the excess money in the tub—around $8.2 trillion—will hit the inflation overflow drain.

The huge monetary expansion—$5.5 trillion already in the bathtub—is starting to reach the overflow.

Persistent, not transitory, inflation will be with us for the next two to three years."

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/11/another_democrat_economist_jumps_ship_on_bidens_inflationary_spending.html

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The only option now is to grow out of the debt with inflation, but that’s a fools errand, and the music will stop eventually when interest rates have to rise.

Fed is just extending the inevitable, and their strategy will just cause more pain down the road.

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That is the only option even on day 1 as when modern money is created i.e. credit, the interest isn't created.

The money supply always has to go up exponentially, but humans don't have the ability to demand or supply exponentially forever. That would require unlimited power.

The financial system was built to reset, its a continuous battle that humans will eventually lose. Any system built on the attaching interest to the money supply will eventually fail.

The power of interest is a fool's illusion... at the the end the truth is it never existed.

The evil of interest is basically documented in most religious text... why? Simple math. At some point reset will happen, unless God changes the Laws of the Universe.