What’s behind the mania in stocks?

Send us Fan Mail There's something different about this booming stock market, especially when one looks at all the madness under the hood in small-cap and penny stocks. Several reasons have been floated to explain this phenomenon, from cheap money policies to massive government spending to the rise of small investors. It looks like a bubble, but the thing about bubbles is that they can last longer than anyone thinks possible. Risk Warning: 78.04% of retail investor accounts lose money when t...