Roughly $11.1 trillion has been wiped away from the U.S. stock market since Jan. 17, the Friday before President Donald Trump took the oath of office and began his second term, according to data from Dow Jones Market Data.

Some $6.6 trillion of that figure was lost on Thursday and Friday alone — the largest two-day wipeout of shareholder value on record, Dow Jones data showed.

  • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Wow, $11 trillion is a lot. Really puts the $36 trillion sitting liquid in offshore tax havens into perspective (yet seems to be missing from every conversation about money.)

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      22 hours ago

      The problem is that it is legal (in a gray legal sort of way), and the people in power only lose if they fix it. So we can only talk about it.

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            1 hour ago

            Take a guess, surely your imagination isn’t limited to just “talking about it”. Perhaps maybe fighting for it? Like we did with women’s rights, slavery, racial discrimination, workers having weekends, they all changed from people talking about it AND fighting for it.