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Stocks are always risky in the short-term, but if you hold long-term, history shows you have a 100 percent chance of success. The graph below shows percentage success as your holding period increases. If you pick ANY 20-year period in American stock history, 100 percent of the time you had a positive return. This includes 20-year blocks that overlapped the Great Depression, World War II, the housing crisis, and tech bubble bust.
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The “freedom isn’t free” script is one the Conservatives have been reading all along. Libertarians are the ones who recognize that Freedom is Freedom. Period. It doesn’t masquerade as something else…especially not an overpriced war for Israel’s benefit or a foreign war for the benefit of the oil companies, banksters, or anyone else.
About that “stay in the stock market for 20 years and you are sure to win” graph. I’m 68. My husband is 69. Our investment retirement income is obscenely down. So in 20 years we’ll come out on top? I’m pretty sure by that time we’ll both be under ground. Oh, well, easy come; easy go….
Sorry to hear that, Sophie. Yes, in the short term stocks are like a casino, so they’re risky to play when you’re retired. Warren Buffett said he’s lost half his investment money on four separate occasions, but he’s of course lived long enough to see it come back each time. Ending the Iran War will likely send stocks up 4-5%, assuming it sticks.