Quote from SideShowBob:
Did the crash in 1987 forecast a deep recession? if so, it didn't happen. Markets cannot be used to accurately forecast anything, and certainly not their magnitude. Did the dotcom collapse forecast a depression?
That's not to say we won't get a deep recession .... just that you can't predict it based on the market collapsing. You saw similar behavior in 1997, 1998 and we didn't even get a recession.
Oh wait, <b><i>this time it's different!</i></b>
All true... including, "different this time".. IMO