Interpreting a market plunge
The bigger concern is on the interest rate hikes. Low rates were expected to help kickstart the economy and prices and wages to increase. What has happened instead is that all the cheap money has caused asset inflation. US companies now have record amount of debt.<p>Too fast increase in interest rates will cause their debt obligations to balloon and lower profitability. Though this will take couple of quarters to fully manifest. So, this is just a reaction in line with Amara&#x27;s law applied to stock markets- We tend to overestimate the effect of a news item (technology) in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. I expect media to be soon cheering another round of upward zag.