Wall Street’s Push to Bring Back the Public

``Throughout these last two years of our participation in the cyclical recovery we’ve talked about how the stock market turnaround has been largely fueled by the big Wall Street firms, including the hedge funds. The retail investors has had only a minimal participation in this 2-year recovery rally and most small investors have seemed content to leave their money parked in low-yielding money market funds. Many of the big Wall Street players are loaded to the gills with stocks and they eventually have to have someone to unload on. That’s where the public comes in, the same public that has been firmly ensconced in the bomb shelter known as the bond market. Viewed from this perspective, the USA Today article is a tip off that Wall Street is making serious efforts at courting the public and stoking their interest to get back into stocks. ''