What is it in that article that "made you think"? Because I don't see any new information in there. It's just another generic "the market is going to crash!" article like a million others that get published year in and year out.
They're citing a perpetual doomsayer, but the doomsayer doesn't actually have anything to say. He's not highlighting any actionable information, he has no great insight into why "this time it's different", his track record on past predictions is terrible, and there's no reason why his next predictions should ever be more right than wrong. I could just as easily write an article saying that the market is going to spike 30% this year, and give it just as much support as this one has, and I would at least have some recent history on my side.
As to the commenters agreeing with him, the comment sections are always full of negativity. Comment sections on pop press articles exist mostly for the purpose of starting arguments that get clicks. If you weren't a respected and familiar member of this community, I would assume you were the article's author or editor and were just trying get page views by drawing forum members to it. Even if the mustachian community were to flock to that page and overwhelm the comment section with rational criticisms, the publisher and the author would be thrilled that they finally posted something that got traction somewhere. You have to remember that half of these market doom articles are troll jobs and the other half are bed wetting. They just want your attention, and for some reason this one seems to have hooked you.
My (former) professional career or exploits were sometimes featured in popular press articles, and I was always shocked at how they would take a relatively simple scientific product and try to spin it into something dire and scary. Then commenters would flood the page with hate mail, calling me a paid government stooge, or "in the pocket of the liberal industrial complex" or insinuating that my career and my income were somehow dependent on making up climate data to fool all the hard working Americans. Big city newspaper reporters were better than blogs or news aggregator sites about pitching a straight story, but even they told me that the comment section is deliberately a dumpster fire of bile because that's what draws the ad revenue they need to survive.
Remember that any for-profit website (or television network) is primarily an advertising delivery service, and what we consider "content" is just the grease that helps their bills get paid by selling ads. They need clicks, and controversy breeds them. So, they're just constantly trying to scare you.
