Then last night Asian markets digested that their largest export market (USA) may be slipping into Recession, so Nikkei _Japan down 13% worst loss in a day since 10/1987, Korea/Thai etc all down big, so now SP500/Nasdaq/Russel/Bitcoin/Ethe all down big as they digest the near term risks, price in higher risk of recession/unwind the Japanese Yen carry trade/rotate from over-valued AI stocks with no near term profitability/Buffet dumping Apple/BOFA etc/and digest domestic politics ( I agree with you that Dems have low chance of winning, whoever runs, due to low turnout from bad economy/inflation damage) but no "coordination" is really necessary to explain the market movements.

Boomers starting to retire in 2011Just like the Nikkei for the last 15 years - HOUSING MAY NOT RECOVER FOR DECADES.Buy and hold strategy has failed, we are on the backside of an asset bubble...

:goofy:For all that making things other people want that Japan did, it still didn't stop them from falling into and staying in a deflationary spiral for almost a decade, during which the Nikkei crashed, their real estate lost 50% of its value, and their government cut interest rates to ZERO in a desperate attempt to turn things around.

That said, let me leave you with a chart from Japans Nikkei index as a further counter balance for stocks having a higher CAGR over the long haul. 

Nikkei hasn't recovered yet either since its high almost 35 years ago back when Japanese business people had achieved mythological status across the world.

The Nikkei and other major exchanges in Asia are down between 3% and 4% on Monday . . . will the bloodletting continue here?

In Japan, the Nikkei 225 has dropped 50%.

We're Japan 1990 deflation scenario (Nikkei down 80% to date) except our consumers don't have the savings.