Commentary The strategy of "buying the dip" went on for months, with unrelenting hope that this was all surely temporary. The economy was opening; Congress was spending. The Federal Reserve surely wouldn't crash the markets before the November election. All will be well. No reason to panic.

Just one week after the tech world's most visible conservative and entrepreneur to back President Donald Trump, Peter Thiel, slammed " treasonous" Google for agreeing to work closely with China, trying to get its search engine back into the Chinese market, while deciding to let a US defense department contract