The stock market isn’t the economy, and the S&P 500 isn’t the stock market.

Even if the Dow Jones Industrial Average is what people refer to when they talk about ‘the market’.  The Standard and Poors 500 index has long been the ‘go-to’ measurement of the US stock market.  More frequently on the ‘serious’ finance media, ‘the market’ that is referred to is the S&P 500. The rationale is […]