### Comment:
From another user... 
  
 The economy is projected to grow 3.4% over the next year... Yeah the stock market is fucked, but people have jobs, income, savings accounts, etc... Trying to gauge the health of the market by only looking at stock prices is like trying to gauge the health of anyone by only sticking your finger up their butt. You need a more complete picture. 
  
 Stock market =/= the economy. Correlated at times but not equal.

### REPLY:
The more complete picture shows early warning signals of a slowdown at best and a downturn at worst. Housing market, auto market, earnings forecasts, government projections slowly starting to slip. 
  
 Economists aren't painting a rosy picture anymore. Most predicted a recession by 2020 and some are revising that to 2019.

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