I like to tell people that Greece’s stock market was one of the world’s best performers in 2012. It surprises them, like a squirt of water in the ear. It goes against the unexamined idea — held by so many — that you have to have a “good” economy to do well in the stocks of that economy. Yet every year, the markets of the world prove that naïve assumption false. We can use this [...] From Worst to First appeared in the Daily Reckoning . Subscribe to The Daily Reckoning by visiting signup for an Agora Financial newsletter .