CNN: The Dow down more than 2,000 points. The S&P and the Nasdaq down over 5.5%. One analyst said he's never seen anything like this. He referred to the dot-com bubble, the 2008 financial crisis and COVID, but this is self-inflicted and did not have to happen

Self-inflicted being the key term. Trump is 100% to blame.

Self-inflicted. The jobs report was beginning to show gains. The tariffs have now run the economy into the ditch.

Weird, I thought Trump wants to make his millionaire / billionaire friends richer, doesn't seem like it!

“Self-inflicted collapse of the market” Did the president do this deliberately? Or did he not know it would happen? There is no good answer.

Fact: If that fellow hadn't missed Americans would be trillions of dollars richer today.

The dot-com boom of 1995–2000 (and ultimate bust in 2001–2002) was a period of large, rapid, and ultimately unsustainable increases in the stock market the wound up popping in 2002 not 2008.

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That analyst wasn't born until 1990.

Necessary to avoid a worse crisis. Short term pain for long term gain.

come on, traders were shorting all afternoon

I saw something like this before when working at Standard & Poor's in NYC. It was Black Monday: October 19, 1987. I didn't own any stock, but people were sad that day.