Ben Carlson | Source | Director, Institutional Asset Management at Ritholtz Wealth Management

If Congress really wants to help working Americans, lawmakers should encourage more people to invest in the stock market to take advantage of corporations returning money to shareholders, whether that’s in the form of buybacks, dividends or any other number of capital-allocation decisions.

Roughly 60% of the time a 10% correction didn’t lead to a bear market while roughly 40% of the time it did. The average correction which saw stocks drop 10% but not enter bear market territory was a drawdown of 14%, lasting 132 days from peak-to-trough.