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Originally Posted by island911
fwiw, the stock-market lost more than that yesterday.
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You've hit on the "problem" with investor psychology in today's stock market. Too many people do
not think about their stock investments as "ownership in a company" with thoughts about how much that company will make and be able to pay in dividends.
Too many people see their holdings in the stock market as an effective equivalent to "cash."
(Sort of the way people haven't been looking at their houses as "a place to live" but instead have been seeing their homes as "an investment" or a "piggy bank" for needed cash.)
The whole country's investment psychology has been "screwed up" over the past decades. More realistic thinking needs to return to the markets.
Facing reality will be painful -- which is why some people are calling for the bailout; they want to maintain their "illusions" about what things are worth and want the government to "print" more money to maintain the fiction.