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It's pretty wild. I've been alive for 4 decades and paying attentions to media coverage of the market for 2 decades and there hasn't been a single month where the market was about to implode according to journalists.

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I have about the same span and I've heard that this is the fall of "capitalism", whatever the hell that is, for the entire time as well.

Maybe this time they're right? I don't know

capitalism is a lot like masculinity - perpetually in crisis

I’ve been masculine for 4 decades and have never considered myself “in crisis” because of it.

Dear reader, unless you are the idea of masculinity itself, we're talking about two different things. Capitalism can be in crisis without all capitalists being in crisis.

We await your definition of either so no one else has to guess at what arbitrary things you're measuring.

I'd understand what dichotomy you're presenting if you could define either of them

The only thing wrong with capitalism is that it has some edge cases that we have not been good about regulating. It works very well if there is enough diversity and competition among suppliers and consumers.

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