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Personal Investments • "What if the market crashes 50%" question

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We are in a new paradigm.

This is what I meant...
Basically after we hit the GFC lows and starting from there, we have never had 2 years without hitting a nominal all time high.
So you are saying something has fundamentally changed such that another crash similar to the GFC can't happen again? That a recovery longer than 2 years can't happen again?
Anything can happen. We could get hit by an asteroid.

The probability is very low because of the guardrails in place. The leverage in the system is very high. Stocks cannot even tolerate a > 20% drop now without hedge funds and banks going under.

Yellen had said there is unlikely to be another crisis in our lifetime and also suggested the fed could buy stocks and corporate bonds. They already did the corporate bond thing during COVID to stabilize the market. They will do the same for equities when the time comes.
https://www.reuters.com/article/economy ... KBN19I2NT/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/yellen-s ... 04972.html

This is why I say we are in a different paradigm.

Statistics: Posted by anoop — Sun Sep 21, 2025 1:41 pm — Replies 153 — Views 10509



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