Is a market crash coming? What does it really mean and how can we prepare for it? What is a black swan? What is an economic collapse? What are the odds of it happening and what can we do to prepare?
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00:00:17.320I'm Patrick Bedeby, your host of Value Entertainment. And today we're going to talk about the one topic everybody is so concerned about, which is market crash, economic collapse. Is it coming? And if it is, how to prepare for it?
00:00:27.820By the way, before I get into explaining everything, one of the facts I'm going to share with you and I want you to be thinking about and answer it. And see if you can get the answer. Since 1926 till today. 1926 till today. That's roughly 90 something years of the market. 92 years of the market. How many years do you think market's been in the positive? Out of those 90 something years, 92 years, how many years has the market been in the positive?
00:00:54.640Like I want you to say 22%, 43%, 68%. What do you think it is? I'm going to answer that in a few minutes before I get into it. So having said that, let's start off with definitions first.
00:01:04.960Number one, everybody drops this word about crash, correction, bear market. What does it really mean? A market correction is when the market tanks by 10%. A bear market is 20%.
00:01:16.400And a crash is when the market tanks 35% to 60%. That lasts three to six months. When that happens, that's a crash.
00:01:25.140So now, a lot of these words you hear about correction, bear market crash, it's also, you're hearing a lot of people say recession and some channels are even talking about depression.
00:01:33.580We need to always know the difference between recession and depression.
00:01:35.800Recession is when a market economic declines six straight months or higher. If it lasts for six months or higher, then we're in recession.
00:01:45.320A depression is when the market is in recession for two plus years and the GDP of the country drops by 10%.
00:01:54.920When that happens, we're experiencing a depression.
00:01:58.180So if anybody drops that word, you've got to be able to say, wait a minute, depression is, you know, we're talking about two years and we're talking 10% GDP.
00:02:05.000That's very unlikely. I'll give you the history of what that really means when it comes down to the numbers.
00:02:09.040But the part that you really have to worry about, and this is the part that no expert can explain to you on what could happen, is the one word you hear.
00:02:15.740It's called black swan. People will say, oh, we may have a black swan. A black swan may happen. A black swan may happen.
00:02:21.960This word's being dropped. So what is a black swan?
00:02:24.860A black swan is something difficult to predict with massive, massive economic consequences.
00:02:32.520So we can't predict a black swan. A 9-11 could be a black swan.
00:02:37.020A thing that even if you watch the movie Big Short and they could be able to predict it based on all the nagging loans that people weren't making the payments on their mortgage payment,
00:02:45.200that's not a black swan because that one the experts could predict.
00:02:48.040It's something we cannot predict. That's something we always have to worry about.
00:02:51.620That's not what this video is about. This video is about things that you and I can predict and things that we can watch and see trends and say,
00:02:56.820okay, I can kind of see what's going on here. I have to worry about these three things.
00:03:00.500I can't do anything about these four different things. So now that's definitions.
00:03:03.500So now that we've covered some of the terminology, whether what's a correction, bear market, you know, a crash, a recession, a depression, a black swan,
00:03:10.360let's talk a little bit about history and facts so you can kind of get an idea about some of the trends that are taking place.
00:03:14.960Because earlier I asked you a question since 1926 till today, roughly 92 years, what percentage of the time the market's been on the up?
00:03:23.800What percentage of the time each given year has been on the up? What was your answer? I'm so curious.
00:03:27.640By the way, I would like you to post your answer below comment before I even say it.
00:03:32.600And after I give you the answer, I want you to tell me if you're shell-shocked by the answer. Ready?
00:03:37.500Here's what the answer is. 74% of the time the market's been up. 74% of the time the market's been up.
00:03:45.360What does this mean to you? Listen, every one of these experts that write books, and once they write a book,
00:03:51.820and they say 15 years from now the market's going to collapse, and it's going to be terrible, it's going to be Armageddon,
00:03:57.500that book sells for 15 years until people really realize that guy didn't know what he was talking about.
00:04:02.440And then there are people that say, the market's going to blow up the next seven years, and you should go in.
00:04:06.480A guy named Harry Dent wrote a book. Everybody was like, oh my gosh, we're going to be billionaires.
00:04:11.660Everybody's going to be a billionaire. Listen, if everyone's going to be a billionaire,
00:04:15.400that's an absolute hype that you shouldn't be paying attention to, right?
00:04:18.320If everyone's going to become millionaires or make a lot of money. It just doesn't work out that way, right?
00:04:22.920So here, 74%, which means what? No matter how bad things are, in the next 20 years, 15 years are going to be positive, give or take.
00:04:32.460If we do what we've done the last 92 years, that's something for you to be paying attention to.
00:04:37.280So let's go a little bit deeper. Let's look at a little bit of history.
00:04:41.040Every time we've had a recession, how long has it taken us to recover?
00:04:45.080How big has the drop been? And how long did it last?
00:04:48.640And last but not least, how much did the GDP of America actually drop off?
00:04:52.700Let's look at this. May of 1946, we had a recession.
00:04:55.780It lasted 36 months. The S&P dropped 30% during that 36 months.
00:05:02.460After the drop off, 15 months it took us to recover. 15 months.
00:05:06.180And during that period, the GDP dropped roughly 1.7%.
00:05:09.780Remember, it has to drop by more than 10% to be a depression. Remember that?
00:05:14.300That doesn't count as a recession. That's why it's only a depression.