The way some of those clowns write, one would think the sock… er, stock market had crashed, that Mount Vesuvius had become active once again, and that nuclear war had broken out all over.
This is just so MUCH BULLSHIT. (Or instead, perhaps that should that be bullshittery?)
I mean, seriously… a 1% and a 1.6% decline?
Are you kidding me!?!
That’s a “plunge”?
It’d be like dipping the very tip of your little finger in a finger bowl moistened with a few drops of water and then claiming that you went swimming in the Pacific Ocean.
If anyone went to any store anywhere and saw a sign reading “HUGE SALE! Up to 1.6% off EVERYTHING!” they’d laugh the store to shame for promoting such an asininely ludicrous bit of blatantly fraudulent puffery and nonsense.
The stock market is that store.
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