[taiwanboy]

The government can simply ban shorts, much like 2008, and what other European stock markets have done already. That would kill the shorts dead in its tracks. Then the stock market would stabilize, in time for businesses to stabilize and hopefully by summer everything will be recovery focused.

[AznHisoka]

What if stocks dropping was mostly due to people selling their holdings?

[taiwanboy]

With interest rate at near 0 percent and inflation at 2.3%, people will come back to stocks sooner rather than later

[AznHisoka]

Why? I would rather hold cash that gives me 0% return (or -2.3%) rather than something that is going to return less than 30% a year.

[raincom]

You are ignoring bond markets, which is playing a huge factor in getting away from stocks.

[jjoonathan]

> With interest rate at near 0 percent