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Dow tumbles nearly 3,000 points -- worst point drop in history (Original Post)
CatWoman
Mar 2020
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,956 posts)1. Beating Trump's record set last week.
Winning baby!!!!
LAS14
(13,783 posts)2. Point drop announcements should be outlawed. Of course it was the biggest...
... in history. The Dow itself is way bigger than it has ever been. It's the percentage that counts.
CatWoman
(79,301 posts)5. that's CNN's banner right now
LAS14
(13,783 posts)7. Right. And they should clean up their act. Mind you...
... I'm not at all saying it's not crazy news. But they should state it in terms of percentages. We all need to learn to be smart about statistics, and using raw numbers here teaches us the wrong thing.
Under The Radar
(3,401 posts)3. today had to have felt like a triple bogey
Dont you think that he just knew his 3:00 press conference today was going to send the markets back into the sky? It dropped an additional 1000.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)4. Trump should give his concession speech.
It's over. He fucked it all up.
rockfordfile
(8,702 posts)9. Trump was never legit
Laelth
(32,017 posts)6. The "Trump economy" has been bad for me.
I am far poorer now than I was when Agent Orange took office. Now that the rich people are feeling the pain a little, perhaps they will do something about this menace that they inflicted upon us.
-Laelth
Hassler
(3,377 posts)8. The Drumpfster Fire likes to Be Best. Congrats, Chump, for once
You earned this all by yourself.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)10. European markets at 9:31p est, not doing well. Overall down roughly 4%.