Good point. Nothing works the way it is "supposed to" now. Stocks for the long run and capital appreciation? Fixed income for when you retire to live off the interest? Cash is for suckers? Real estate never goes down? Gold is a "barbaric relic"? Each generation has a higher standard of living than the previous one? The "invisible hand" of the market will regulate the markets and rationality will keep things from blowing up?

Ack, it's like I've woken up in some alternate universe!