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Posted by DazzlinDonna on November 4th, 2007 in General

I’m a stock market idiot. I’ve invested a bit here and there, but really, I don’t understand it at all. So, I’m asking those of you who actually know what the difference is between a bull market and a bear market to speculate on what would happen if Google’s stock crashed.

It seems inevitable to me. Of course, since I’m a stock market idiot, that probably doesn’t mean much, but just using age-old wisdom (and as I age, I like to pretend I get wiser), it’s similar to the old “If it’s too good to be true…” advice. To me, it’s like a balloon that keeps getting more and more air blown into it, and it seems as though the rubber will stretch forever…but it doesn’t. Eventually, it pops, and all the air is dispersed.

I bring this up because I read a forum thread today, in which one of Google’s staunchest evangelists has become disheartened with them. Frankly, I never thought I’d see the day that he would say one single bad word against them. It felt like hearing Billy Graham tell us he was switching sides.

So, what do you think would happen if Google’s stock crashed? What kind of ripples would that send out? How much impact would that have in the larger scheme of things? Your thoughts?

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2 Responses to “What Would Happen If Goog Stock Crashed?”

1. g1smd Says:
   November 4th, 2007 at 11:59 am

   Any such downturn could turn into an avalanche very quickly. Panic selling could set in. In that case a very large number of people would lose a very large sum of money virtually overnight.

   You need to sell just before the start of that turn downwards. A large number of people dumping stock in anticipation of a downturn, might actually be the trigger that starts the downturn.

   Some people might buy while the prices are spiralling downwards in anticipation that the fall is just a short turn ‘glitch’, and prices will later return to somewhere about the level they are now.

   When and how much is anyone’s guess. There will be a lot of losers when it happens.

2. Goran Says:
   November 9th, 2007 at 2:13 am

   What would happen… Well nothing seroiusly. Since the stock market has it’s own way of repairing things, things would get back in normal after few days. You see, when dot-com crashed in 2000., few companies (a bit smaller ones) disappeared, but, did Amazon crash? Ebay? MS?
   Yeah, surely, Enron and Worldcom ended gloriously, but it was because of the inner struggle and their poor business models…

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