White House Makes Admission About Stock Market

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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the Biden administration is not monitoring the stock market on a regular basis as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 1,100 points Wednesday.

Speaking to reporters, Jean-Pierre said Wednesday that โ€œnothing has changed on how we see the stock market,โ€ which is โ€œnot something we keep an eye on every day, so Iโ€™m not gonna comment on that from here.โ€

The Nasdaq Composite dropped nearly 5 percent while the Dow Jones plunged 4 percent on Wednesday. On Thursday morning, the Dow Jones dropped more than 440 points during the morning session.

Earlier in 2022, former White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that President Joe Biden โ€œdoes not look at the stock market as a means by which to judge the economy.โ€

The stock market plunge was, in part, triggered by shares of Target, Walmart, and other retailers seeing significant losses in recent days. For example, Target lost about 25 percent of its value after it reported earnings that fell short of analystsโ€™ forecast, namely due to shipping costs that have been exacerbated by high fuel prices and inflation.

Rising interest rates, high inflation, the war in Ukraine, and a slowdown in Chinaโ€™s economy have caused investors to reconsider the prices theyโ€™re willing to pay for a wide range of stocks, from high-flying tech companies to traditional automakers.

The last bear market happened just two years ago, but this would still be a first for those investors that got their start trading on their phones during the pandemic. For years, thanks in large part to extraordinary actions by the Federal Reserve, stocks often seemed to go in only one direction: up. Now, the familiar rallying cry to โ€œbuy the dipโ€ after every market wobble is giving way to fear that the dip is turning into a crater.

Byย Jack Phillips

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