[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Something wicked this way comes.

[rovenstinez]

Many folks at the White House are probably giving each other high fives...

[A CA Guy]

So how would our markets do without the 40% our Treasury has been putting into it?

[Cowboy Bob]

Elizabeth, this is the big one!

[pgkdan]

Oh my goodness! We may not make it to the Shemitah!

[entropy12]

Stock markets have already crashed in these 23 countries.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-18/23-nations-around-world-where-stock-market-crashes-are-already-happening

[stockpirate]

This is BS, once QE stopped the markets had to fall, they were being propped up the past 7 years with the printed money from the fed.

The is a correction of huge proportions, the likes of which may never have been seen before. IMHO

But it plays in to the fascist/socialists hands to demand more fixes so they and the bankster’s can steal yet more of Americans wealth.

[Old Sarge]

We were just having this discussion HERE

This is heading south faster than a flock of Confederate ducks...

[stockpirate]

The goal was to prop the markets up until mom and pop got off the sidelines thinking it was okay.

Then BANG, sell to the buyers coming in to a falling market.

[American Constitutionalist]

It will be harder for the US to borrow money from China.

[Logical me]

Who is kidding who. By 1:00 it will be almost even or will go slightly positive.

[arthurus]

The market has looked to me as if it is trying to work up a crash or a swoon or big slide or whatevr the chart techies would call it since the end of June. My own totally uninformed opinion is that the Fed has been keeping the market’s head above water with cash injections to the banks to buy equities but the inherent weakness is bit by bit overwhelming the Fed’s ability to shore things up, a least with the current tactics. The market got stuck around the 18k level back in December and has not managed to do better since then. I wonder how much apparently futile and sub rosa money creation has gone on since then. My fear is that when the market does crash/collapse/swoon or whatever, the general economy will find itself awash with all those superfluous dollars. Is there some other way for the Fed to keep all that cash out of the consumer portion of the economy?

[M Kehoe]

Good afternoon.

Something wicked this way comes.

Probably QE whatever. The Fed is out of bullets. Pushing on a string.

Earnings down, inventories up, what could possibly go wrong?

5.56mm

[ForYourChildren]

Bkmk

[montag813]

“GROWTH CONCERNS???” Excuse me while I LAUGH MY ASS OFF.

[dragnet2]

-361

[Sam Gamgee]

What I don’t get is the NASDAQ is still basically sitting right above its start for 2015, while the DOW is well below that line. You’d think considering the lack of quality in the NASDAQ it would be leading the drop.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Yeah, I plan to get some extra cash sometime in the next few days.

As far as I’m concerned, part of this meltdown is possibly because the Fed finally cut off the shares-buying gravy train.

I know the bond-buying program stopped some time ago, also.

This is a necessary correction. I just hope it’s not too bad.

[GOPJ]

Down over 400...

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

This has been developing for a while. However, our enemy, the media, has only been reporting on:

He said...she said.

[SkyPilot]