>Similarly, a lot of people are panic-selling their stocks right now as it never occured to them that the market might go down for a while. It does. And it goes back up again too.

Doug;

Buy high - sell low! What happens to the billions and trillions "lost" in the stock market? If you throw money in the toilet and flush it, it goes to a sewer disposal plant where it can be processed. Perhaps a loss in the stock market is like a big flush and the guys on Wall street are processing the lost money while laughing at all the fools. Such a process! :)

Tom