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Zuhyc on 25 August 2015
Locknuts said:
The biggest players seem to be selling shares in businesses that rely on US consumer spending. There's not a lot of confidence in the US economy right now. Does anybody know if legislation was ever passed to ensure that a repeat of 2008 wouldn't happen again? If not then I'd say that it could easily happen again. This volatility may be a sign of history repeating itself.

Disclaimer: I'm a real estate guy, not a stock guy. I'm also Australian so there's a good chance I don't know what the fuck I'm on about.


What kind of legislation do you think could stop this? If there's a massive panic in the stock exchange, then these things can happen. Especially so if there are problems with the economy.



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Locknuts on 25 August 2015
Zuhyc said:
Locknuts said:
The biggest players seem to be selling shares in businesses that rely on US consumer spending. There's not a lot of confidence in the US economy right now. Does anybody know if legislation was ever passed to ensure that a repeat of 2008 wouldn't happen again? If not then I'd say that it could easily happen again. This volatility may be a sign of history repeating itself.

Disclaimer: I'm a real estate guy, not a stock guy. I'm also Australian so there's a good chance I don't know what the fuck I'm on about.


What kind of legislation do you think could stop this? If there's a massive panic in the stock exchange, then these things can happen. Especially so if there are problems with the economy.

Depends what 'this' is. If it's just a correction, then probably not much. If it's a complete collapse due to bad lending on worthless securities, then lending could have been regulated.  But I don't really understand the stock market so I stay as far away from it as possible.