“The president single-handedly wiped out Americans’ retirement savings overnight and subjected businesses to intense whiplash with his increasingly erratic and chaotic policies that continue to drive consumer and business uncertainty.”

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    10% so far unfortunately.

    Recessions officially require a slowdown of an economy over a longer period of time. Usually the stock market has nothing to do with it, though it can be a canary in the coal mine for it.

    A recession has more to do with unemployment rate rising, negative GDP growth and consumer spending indexes falling.

    Essentially it’s just a fancy way of saying the economy is slowing down in every category.

    The stock market is a rich person’s playground in this day and age mostly.

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      it’s not an exact measure, but the rule of thumb for a recession is 2 quarters of negative growth

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      The stock market is a rich person’s playground in this day and age mostly.

      Unfortunately, if they do poorly, THAT definitely “trickles down”.