[aiptasia]

Don't play with words...no direct relation or no relation?.

Stock market collapse 1929....USA goes into depression.
Stock market plunge jn 1997....Asian countries go into crisis bankruptcies everywhere.
Stock market fall by 50% in 2009....US fianncial crisis due to incompetence in regulating the banks ...Lehman collapsed many ordinary people suffer.

Play your LJ lah.  This only happens in the US.

Singapore's stock market has been in the dumps for decades - is the economy in the dumps?  NO!