Jack Bogle says he’s never seen the market this volatile

I'm not saying it's not going to happen, but "experts" have been saying that for a year now. When somebody figures out how to time the market/what's actually going to happen in the future let me know.

Depending on how you define volatility, he's mostly wrong. If you use the VIX, that reached its height in October 2008 and hasn't come close since then. So he's wrong there.

If you define volatility as the average number of points the market moves in a day, that varies. For SPX, the highest 5 day average daily range is 98.044 points, which we hit on February 9 of this year; the previous high was 93.318 points, which was achieved on October 15, 2008. The highest SPX's 10 day average daily range ever got was 83.24 points, which happened on October 17, 2008; this year, the 10 day average topped out at 73.197 points on February 15. So the 5 day average (in absolute points, mind you, not percentage) agrees with him but the 10 day disagrees. The 30 day average also disagrees.

Now, my last paragraph was about the average number of points, not percent, the S&P moved in a day. SPX was under 1000 when it established those 2008 averages I mentioned, so those days had very big moves percentage-wise. SPX hasn't been under 2500 thus far this year, so we've seen much smaller moves percentage-wise. So Bogle is wrong there, too.

I think some pretty powerful people are currently making a ton of money of the volatility and will do what they can to influence news/events that seem to influence the market more now than it did in past times.