How wallstreet is performing is not an overall picture of how the economy is doing.
We have (before the bailout)
$11, trillion in total liabilities including public debt.
$7 trillion in current unfunded social securities benefits
$34 trillion in medicare current unfunded medicare promises ($26t Part A&B, $8t Part D)
$1 trillion in other miscellaneous items
=Total $53 Trillion in debt with wich we have $0 to pay it off due to operating in the red since about 2001 again. ($410 budget deficet for 2008)
In order to get out of this hole we are in Wallstreet won't be happy.
For a good watch about the true state of the economy. go rent, buy or download this movie that has some very high figures in the nation on economics. Don't thank Obama on this one, thank ourselves.