A lot of folks bet on hillary winning. Gun stocks are down and everyone has taken a hit. It will balance out like it always does and the best companies will survive.
They will sky rocket whenever the correction happens. Most people that own them own paper and they have no clue that there is 10x more paper than there is metal. It will be a shit show for sure.
That, plus the interest rate has been held artificially low for 8 years so there is no benefit to saving money. It just doesn't pay. If interest rates were where they should be, the dow would be closer to 10000.
It was huge. Now it's less huge. I will not be surprised if we hit 30 trillion in the next 8 years. It will all collapse eventually. The collapse is where the huge wealth grabs happen.
1913 backwards. Things worked pretty well using tarriffs, but we didn't have a huge military or a welfare state. It helped that we produced 90 plus percent of everything we used.