[rightwingcrazy]

In the table of the ten worst drops on record, four of them were in the past 6 months. And none of them were in the 5 years preceding. That seems significant to me.

Maybe large cap stocks have just gotten much, much larger, or maybe some sort of market correction is underway.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Apply Occam’s Razor. The stats are in current dollars. The picture changes dramatically if inflation-adjusted constant dollars are used instead.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks for clarifying that. Your point got me to wondering, so I plotted the 12 biggest market cap decreases in the article on a timeline for a view more like what you were pointing out.