“period from 2000 to 2003”

IMO that is when the bear market SHOULD have begun – the markets would have corrected by now and we would likely have a healthy, growing economy today

instead, our politicians and bankers fueled the next bubbles by taking interest rates to 1% and holding them there

now we get to correct the original bull market plus the past 8 years of artificial stimulus

that is, unless they succeed in fueling another bubble even bigger than the equity and RE bubbles – I’m not holding my breath