The Big One Is Here

Stock crash
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William D. Cohan
May 11, 2022

There’s no denying anymore that the financial markets are in the midst of the long anticipated correction. The smart money around Wall Street has shifted from debating the possibility of an economic downturn to the question of its duration, and depth, and the possibility of timing the bounce and maybe figuring out a way to make money from it. It stinks, I know. Many novice investors who piled into the high-growth stocks in 2020 have no historical memory of a bear market, let alone a period of high inflation. But the past is never dead, as Faulkner said. It’s not even past.