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Market going down 20% is what, going back to mid 2013 levels? Hardly a scary crash.

• TheOtherHobbes 10y ago
  Look up how far stocks fell in 1929. Most corrections are 20-40% - which is bad enough. But every so often you get something much, much worse.
  • charlesdm 10y ago
    The fed has shown they're not willing to let that happen. They'll start up the printing press again, then. Quantitative easing has effectively been the biggest gift in the last 50 years to the wealthy.
    • adventured 10y ago
      Little question the market has finally realized the Fed has no intention of raising interest rates, thus the huge dollar tumble since December. At this point more QE and negative interest rates in a year or two are far more likely than meaningful hikes. If the dollar hadn't fallen so much in the last five months, the stock market would be quite a bit lower already thanks to horrible corporate earnings.
    • aminorex 10y ago
      Very true, but... Eventually all that money shows up as inflation. Which devalues the SPX. The wealthy have been net sellers of SPX for over a year now. It is only the collapsing velocity of money which has prevented an inflationary tear so far...but that has a hard limit at zero ( unlike interest rates) which can only be reached by either obliteration of technological society or a reorganization of economic activity to be uncorrelated with money flows
      • charlesdm 10y ago
        If you believe that, then you would do well to swap your dollars for some other currency used by countries with low inflation and a more prudent fiscal policy.