Aurie Maine

The stock market has demonstrated a unique ability to remain clear eyed and cold hearted as it scaled a wall of worry during the course of its venerable history.

The brilliance of Wall Street's investment banks is never more evident than through the bonuses at Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS). The arcane and complex world of high finance taught the foreigners to lower Manhattan an invaluable lesson as the dust settled from the market meltdown of 2008. The mighty investment banks cradled along Water and Wall Street are the emperors of everyones money and they have no cloths.

As the market has climbed out of the abyss from earlier this year some of the most recognizable and pivotal companies to the American economy have lead this steady move higher. In particular Bank America (NYSE: BAC) and General Electric (NYSE: GE), two of the United State's largest and most pronounced brands that were deeply affected by the financial crisis stemming from the sub prime mortgage debacle have seen their stock price performance exceed 100% from the lows of 2009.

The markets have had an amazing run over the past 6 months, up a dramatic 50% or 60% on a run that has yet to take a breath in the month over month escalation. In a broad sense the  powers of Wall Street have reasserted a discourse of calm, steady as she goes command that in outward appearance and when repeated in cadence by the talking heads of the financial news networks, seems to be putting people in a mood to go back into the ocean of stocks, if only for an ankle deep stroll along the beach. There's an old saying on Wall Street, "If you aren't bullish, don't come to work."