Uncertainty is uncertain...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-uncertainty-turned-bullish-2012-09-12?dist=beforebell 

It all seemed so simple. U.S. is/was a financial basket case, Europe the same or worse, China's growth rate is stalling, geopolitical uncertainty in the Middle East and saber rattling in North Korea and Iran. How bad can it possibly get? It makes one want to sell the house in the city, arm yourself and build a bunker in the desert... 

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/survivalist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Gummer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcsLaSBWG9k 

So let's check out the U.S. stock market (below) and see how it fared in this ever expanding sea of impossibly bad news...

According to the chart, it says a 112.5% gain in the last 3.5 years and a 14.24% gain since this past January. 

Many investors have gone through an epic emotional roller coaster ride over the past four or five years. Paralyzed with fear when stock markets plummeted starting in September 2008, they likely never added one cent to their portfolios. Some simply abandoned ship around the March 9th, 2009 lows. And when markets started to soar just six months after the crisis started (see chart below), many investors either stayed on the sidelines or continued to sell off their stock related investments right up to this day. The four year anniversary of the U.S. financial crisis has come and gone, and the stock market is closing in on its all time record highs. 

This U.S. stock market chart (below) tells the tale.

Chart courtesy of Advisor Perspectives http://advisorperspectives.com/dshort/charts/markets/SPX-snapshot.html?current-market-snapshot.gif