Friday, December 28, 2018

Is this a Recession, Depression, or Something Else? What's Next?

What goes up has to come down at some point.  Sometimes, markets go down because they went up - a lot.  We were really spoiled by the "Trump bump" of 2017.  Did you know that 2017 was the only year ever that the S&P 500 went up each and every month?  That's great and mutual funds made a lot of money.  But remember, people have very short memories.  Investors, in their 2017 exuberance, forgot that market volatility is normal.  Now, it goes without saying, that the volatility we've seen in 2018 has been a lot more severe than anything we've seen in recent years.  Why is that?

One main reason, above all others, is fear of... Read More...



Submitted December 28, 2018 at 12:01PM by kissindicator http://bit.ly/2EW2axE

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