Name: The Stock Market Crash Has Begun - Do THIS ASAP!
Uploaded: 2026-03-15T21:32:24.000Z
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I was not planning to post a video today, but

given the current state of the economy, I felt like it would be a good idea to address everyone's concerns and share my own thoughts about what's going on.

Because the reality is a lot of people are not prepared to see their profits wiped away in a matter of hours or even days, with the markets reacting to some of the most negative news that we have seen in a long time.

That's why we really need to talk about exactly what's going on, what this means for you, and

why you shouldn't just be focused on investing your money, but.

But also protecting it, because now is not the time to make any mistakes.

Although, before we start, as usual, if you appreciate me dropping everything I'm doing today to get this video out in time, it would mean the world to me if you hit the like button and subscribe.

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All right, so in terms of what's happening, buckle up, because here's a quick recap to bring you up to speed.

All of this started on February 28th, when the United States and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran.

But instead of Iran backing down, they fought back.

They disabled shipping routes throughout critical points in the Middle East.

And if there's one thing the world runs on, it's oil.

20% of the world's oil runs through the small passageway called the Strait of Hormuz.

And with this effectively blocked off, oil prices skyrocket, shipments are delayed, and

the cost of moving anything from crude oil to natural gas to fertilizer goes through the roof.

Now, initially, the markets didn't react because most people thought it would be over fairly quickly.

All of a sudden, everything escalated, and

people began to price in the possibility that this could drag on for a very, very long time.

Now, even though it's impossible to predict the future, we can look back at what's happened in the past, and

here's where things get interesting when it comes to market crashes in terms of how bad things could potential.

This was a time when the stock market crashed 50% after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake when heavy insurance payouts caused people to withdraw their gold from banks.

Of course that resulted in people panicking, the entire economy collapsed.

And fun fact that actually led to the financial policies that we have put in place today known as the Federal Reserve.

However, Shortly after this 50% sell off, the stock market surged 193% over the next four years.

And that continued until we hit the Great Depression of 1929.

Back then the issue was that banks were lending out money to people so freely for the purposes of investing, because back then, the stock market just kept going higher.

But once the stock market showed the slightest glimpse of topping out, everyone started selling at the same time.

They then went to the banks for fear that the banks would go out of business and started to pull their cash out.

But the banks didn't have the cash because they had lent it out to other people for the purposes of investing.

This led to the stock market dropping 83% over three years within nearly 25% unemployment rate.

In fact, the stock market didn't fully recover for almost 20 years when World War II offered enough work for the 17 million Americans who were unemployed.

At which point the stock market enjoyed almost 14 years of consistent economic growth, averaging a gain of over 815% during that time frame.

Although after that, as the World War ended, we saw another stock market drop of almost 22% over six months as veterans re entered the workforce, began competing among a limited supply of jobs and had to adjust to an economy that wasn't constantly flush with government spending.

But after that, we saw a 15 year increase in the stock market with prices going up over 935%.

Then again in 1973 and 74, the stock market lost another 40% of its value.

This occurred when President Nixon removed the dollar from the gold standard, which inadvertently caused runaway inflation.

The Federal Reserve had to increase interest rates and everything began to crash.

Although after that, like clockwork, the markets continued climbing higher with the following three years averaging a gain of 845%.

But then again, we got another one that's making its way around the Internet.

And that would be the Black Monday crash of 1987 where stocks dropped over 22% in a single day.

However, that one was very short lived and not too much longer after that.

The stock market increased over 800% in the next 13 years.

Then we have similar today with the AI boom, we have the dot com bubble of 2001.

This was caused by a frenzy of people buying Internet related companies because they believed this would be the future, but

when those companies never actually made any money.

Eventually the bubble popped and people lost about 40 to 60% of their value.

But even despite all of that, the market still recovered.

And over the next five years we saw almost 110% growth until the Great Recession of 2008.

I'm sure this one doesn't need too much explaining, but

but basically banks lent out too much money to people who couldn't afford the mortgage payments.

That fell back in the banks, the banks went out of business and the stock market dropped about 50%.

However, after that we recovered in the longest running bull market ever in history until Covid, when the markets quickly fell 30%.

To help with that, the government printed a lot of money and that led to 120% increase over the following five years.

And finally we had the tariff scare of 2025 when the stock market saw its largest single day losses ever in and of course, you guessed it, we are up another 35% from the bottom.

So in terms of what happens next with this panic, you're 100% going to want to hear this.

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All right, now, in terms of what's most likely to happen next, keep in mind that there's always a reason not to invest.

Like, even though it's very easy to think that, ooh, events like this are completely unique and this has never happened before, the reality is it's not exactly uncommon.

As you can see, throughout the last 80 years, almost every decade there is something that happens which causes the stock market to sell off.

But over time, eventually it recovers and we continue moving on as normal.

Here's the thing we gotta realize, even right now, at the time I'm filming this video, The S&P 500 is still at the same point that was just a few months ago.

And objectively, it's still up over 70% in the last five years, not including dividends.

If you want even more proof about how profitable the stock market could be, take a look at this chart.

Green signals years of profit, red signals years of losses.

As you can see, there's a lot more green than red, but