With stocks sprinting to their best start in 25 years, it seems there is a lot of temptation to either jump on or bail out when neither is advisable.

It sounds like a lot of money, but in 30 years it won't be worth anything close to $4 million today.

Stockman believes that, while Chrysler and GM have both returned to profitability, the bailouts that enabled them to survive were misguided.

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An examination of recent demographic trends suggests that market dynamics may not be the main cause of changing disparities in U.S. income.

"We did have a bubble in gold, the bubble popped and we're now trying to reflate," says Richard Suttmeir of valuengine.com.