Stocks marked time on Monday, allowing the purveyors of tired wisdom to rev up the silly notion that the avalanche of economic data due out this week will have some significance on the performance of shares over the near-term. We would argue otherwise -- that the Dow is in the throes of a thousand-point rally come hell or high water and that, furthermore, corporate earnings, no matter how bad, will not derail this prediction. We have strong evidence of this already, since investors evidently had little difficulty last week shrugging off disappointment earnings from industrial bellwether Alcoa.