Oil Prices and Stocks: Is This a Stupid Market?

NEW YORK (Real Money) -- It sure is tiresome when the algorithms force a nonsensical market upon us. I am a huge believer that the economy has slowed again -- it's been stop-start repeatedly -- and that the hiring numbers, after hitting their stride not that long ago, now seem bogged down by some force or forces -- European weakness, Affordable Care Act? -- that nobody's been able to pin down beyond anecdotal musings.