Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Why the Bear of 2015 Is Different from the Bear of 2008

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/08/why-the-bear-of-2015-is-different-from-the-bear-of-2008.html

It’s tempting to see similarities in last week’s global stock market mini-crash and the monumental meltdown that almost took down the Global Financial System in 2008-2009.The dizzying drop invites comparison to the last Bear Market that took the S&P 500 from 1,565 in October 2007 to 667 on March 9, 2009.
But this Bear is beginning in circumstances quite different from 2007-08. Let’s list a few of the differences:

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