$3.4T has been wiped out of the stock market in a week

Re:$3.4T has been wiped out of the stock market in a week by taywrobel on Friday February 28, 2020 @12:19PM (#22444352)

It's a 4.2% drop, using your numbers. That's not a pothole. If looking at my savings account, I saw a sudden 4.2% drop it would not just be a "meh, it happens, no problem here" type situation.

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Re:$3.4T has been wiped out of the stock market in a week by entropea on Friday February 28, 2020 @12:27PM (#22444433)

That would be like $10 for most of the country.

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Re:$3.4T has been wiped out of the stock market in a week by easton_s on Friday February 28, 2020 @12:47PM (#22444626)

When a person has $240 bucks in their account they know exactly what that $10 is for.

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Re:$3.4T has been wiped out of the stock market in a week by gentleman11 on Friday February 28, 2020 @02:24PM (#22445524)

Fair, but back when I had $240 in my account, I didn’t have any stocks. Stocks were rich person problems to me back then

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Re:$3.4T has been wiped out of the stock market in a week by vikramkr on Friday February 28, 2020 @01:13PM (#22444911)

And for someone for who that 10 bucks is 4 percent of their total savings, that's a few days or a week or a month in some parts of the world without food to put on the table.

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Re:$3.4T has been wiped out of the stock market in a week by Finch2192 on Friday February 28, 2020 @12:31PM (#22444464)

That isn't really the point, though, is it?

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