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Originally posted by: rchiu
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: jonks
Originally posted by: Perry404
I am not stating that the market goes lower
It had better, or your "100 days to financial collapse" thread won't come true! Only 28 days left!
You're looking at the collaspe
You call this collaspe? Nasdaq dropped from 4.6k to 1.2k between 2000 and 2002, that's like 75% drop and the world didn't end and we didn't go into a depression. We went to a mild recession which people still debate on the technicality.
Give me a break with the doom and gloom will you? Yes stock market suck, yes we got problem with banks and their over extended loans and leverages. But it doesn't mean the rest of the economy is in the gutter like banking sector. Employment is still decent, and if not for all the fvcking sky is falling people running around, average joe and jane would still go out and shop and continue to make the economy outside of banking decent.
The economy is all about confidence, and again for the million times, stock market is not the economy. It is dumb to use stock market up and down as the main indicator of how the entire economy is doing. And if we have enough stupid people doing that, and destroy the confidence of average joe and jane, a depression is gonna be a self fulfilling prophecy.
The stock market may not be the "economy" but when Mom and Pop Joe "close to retire" see that the retirement funds lost 2 trillion dollars over the last few weeks, things can seem pretty bleak, whether based in reality or not.