Traders buck the trend

Just as economists are getting more bearish, raising their estimates of what it will take to bring the US economy in for a soft landing, traders are getting more bullish. Economists would probably be the first to admit that they have got it wrong. Traders and investors, on the other hand, are unswayed. This is the same group that is always looking to buy the dip, even through the deep, dark days of the 1999 bear market. After all, there was no inflation. The rest of the world was still stumbling along. The worst the Federal Reserve would have to do was some tactful tweaking around the ed...