5 reasons why the stock market has declined -- Ritholtz

Here are some plausible reasons why markets have given up most or all of their gains for the year.

By Barry Ritholtz | October 31, 2018 at 04:59 PM

(Bloomberg Opinion) –A few weeks ago, we discussed retrospective prescience — why everyone is so amazingly good at explaining what just happened. Apparently unaware of our own hindsight bias, we spin comforting narratives to help us understand recent events, despite having no knowledge of how things would unfold in advance.

My explanation for the stock-market correction is at risk for these same behavioral errors.

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