The Committee to Destroy the World opened is hydra-headed mouth one too many times last week.
The result was the biggest drop in stocks since Brexit.
The Dow Jones Industrial average fell nearly 400 points or 2.1% on Friday while the S&P 500 dropped nearly 54 points or 2.5% and the Nasdaq Composite Index also shed 2.5% and nearly 134 points.
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