And what did Jeffry Bartash mean when he referenced the “first quarter shocker?” His ‘shocker’ was the first quarter plunge in GDP, decreasing at an annual rate of 2.9%. And why was this a shock? I’m really not sure. I guess Bartash and many Wall Street types, including economists, were in hibernation during the cruel…
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Session 99–Nasdaq Meltdown: Shades of Y2K
It’s Friday April 4, 2014. I am getting ready to run out the door to a meeting and I hear someone compare the the Nasdaq mini-meltdown of recent days (down 2.6% on Friday) to the beginning of the “tech bubble” bursting in March of 2000. Unfortunately, I was not recording at the time and there…