Apple is the latest "Emerging Market" to enter a bear market:
https://www.aei.org/publication/perspective-ridiculously-enormous-market-caps-americas-20-valuable-biggest-companies/print/
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The globalized economy is a colossal Ponzi Scheme in which the vast majority survive on the bread crumbs falling off the table. The possibility of 7 billion people achieving a consumption-oriented lifestyle is zero, so the World Bank conveniently set the poverty line at $1.25/day to legalize global slavery. As long as someone else's children are doing the suffering, it's "all good". Post-2008, this illusion was extended merely by plundering all future generations.