economic situation the highest level since march of two thousand and nine now this is a study done by the university of chicago and northwestern university they also have a specific question they asked those they surveyed and they said predicting the stock market very few investors if any can consistently make accurate predictions about whether the price of an individual stock will rise or fall on a given day economist sixty four percent strongly agreed that you can't predict markets where americans overall fifty four percent agreed that you can't predict markets that means forty six percent of americans believe that you can magically predict where markets will go and so max does that explain to you why they might be losing money to brokers them and bankers well there's two points there the first point is one of the financial illiteracy now the fact is that rising interest rates would benefit consumers benefit the economy benefit wage earners benefit retirees benefit competition look at the comments underneath this video as it's playing on the internet right now read the comments below this video that you're watching right now look at al