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This is Motley Full Answers. I'm Alison Southwick.

And, yeah, let's just get into it.

All that and more on this week's episode of Motley Full Answers.

As we are coming to you in the studio, it is Friday of what's been, gosh darn it, just a heck of a week.

And so we have Andy Cross.

G. Willikers.

G. Willikers. We've got Andy Cross.

I have other words, so yeah, didn't golly G. Wittaker's?

Other G.D. words.

We have Andy Cross, Chief Investing Officer of the Motley Fool in studio.

So we're going to talk about what happened.

And then also we're going to take a trip down memory lane and talk about sort of some lessons that you, Andy, learned while you lived, both the dot-com boom and bust and the Great Recession.

So first, though, let's talk about what happened this week.

I know we're all doing the fill your cheeks up with air and

just like, woof. So yeah, we're in a bare market. Officially. Officially.

Officially in a bare market, when the market falls down more than 20% from its highs,

the last one we saw. We almost were there in 2018, so close.

I mean, again, never to be flipping about this, but the true last bear market was 2008, 2009, when stocks fell 20%.

And then, by the way, they went on to fall another 45% after hitting that bare market.

The difference this time, obviously, it's the coronavirus and it's the COVID-19 and the impact that

is having on citizens of the world, governments, countries, and businesses. But how fast this

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