Times Peterson Foundation poll, only 14, 14, 14 of families own stocks outright. Meaning the market is creating all this wealth for the few, not the many 60 of americans dont even know that stocks are up for the year and theyve advanced 24 hallelujah so after a sedate day where the dow gained 28 points, the nasdaq climbed 0. 05 , lets talk about what the heck is going on here i think its a lot more complicated than simple ignorance. The first reason why people who can afford to own stocks are sitting on the sidelines earning very little, the disastrous bear market at the turn of the century impoverished a whole generation of individual investors who got burned by chasing, yes, the hottest stocks imaginable when the dot com crash hit, it ended the greatest love affair ever told. I was part of it i started the street. Com in 1995 immediately found hundreds of thousands of people with a thirst for any investing knowledge to level the Playing Field. Between the rich and the not so rich at