Re:In Investing, It’s When You Start and When You Finish (2011)
by gmarx on Monday October 17, 2016 @10:54AM
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You've been right for years. Easy money has kept things stable but starting from right now, if you invest in stocks and bonds and hold for 20 years, you should expect pretty low returns. Everything is expensive
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Re:In Investing, It’s When You Start and When You Finish (2011)
by unknown_apostle on Monday October 17, 2016 @11:12AM
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Since 1980 and especially since 2000, people have learned that buying into a crash will be rewarded within 2-3 years because of central bank response.
They think "you can't loose with stocks long-term", which I believe is largely correct. But they have lost all historical perspective on what "long-term" has occasionally meant. And they underestimate the interim carnage in those instances (1930s, 1970s).