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The S&P 500’s cyclically-adjusted price/earnings ratio isn’t far from its tech bubble record, so what might be a 20% selloff in stocks could be more like that episode, when stocks dropped by half.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Financially, care providers struggled too, as the number of people using services dropped.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
The Nikkei 225 in Tokyo dropped around one percent as Kioxia shed nearly two percent and tech investor SoftBank plunged more than five percent.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
After several years of debate, school officials dropped the use of a countywide competitive test and chose top performing students at all of its middle schools using a lottery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
I slipped into the chair, put the math books on her desk, and dropped my backpack to the floor.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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