The stock market is only a financial craigslist: anything that can be securitized and sold...will be sold. It has no relevance to the strength of an economy. It never loses value, the assets merely change hands. When the stock market crashes, only investors loose money. Keep an eye on the bond market. When the bond market crashes, governments go broke...and become very dangerous.
Calling the stock markets a “craigslist” is a joke...
The markets are absolutely tied to the economy and to forward sentiment about corporate earnings based on economic data...
Is there risk? Of course.. when the market resets your returns take a hit.. if you look back historically at the stock market there are consistent returns and growth.