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Set up automatic investments into a Vanguard Target Retirement fund (or whatever), and know that whenever the next crash does come, you'll get an exceptionally good deal that month.
Here's some good advice on the subject: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2017/06/20/next-recession/
Except this time.
The miscalculation that I believe economists are making is the massive shift in leverage between the laborers and the owners. Historically, the two were balanced to the point that creating greater economic growth would tip the scales in the laborers' favor, thus increasing wages and inflation. What's happening now is that, due to many factors including outsourcing, illegal immigration, lobbying(bribery), capital conc…
If you're working a job that isn't directly related to the stock market, and are not about to retire, then you really shouldn't care if the stock market is about to crash or not. Set up automatic investments into a Vanguard Target Retirement fund (or whatever), and know that whenever the next crash does come, you'll get an exceptionally good deal that month. Here's some good advice on the subject: http://www.mrmoneym…
No such thing, except for maybe the government. If your business isn't sensitive to its stock price, its customers/suppliers/financiers are. Or their customers/suppliers/financiers are. Everything is connected, if you exist in the modern economy, you don't exist in a vacuum.
Even if there is a global downturn, the US economy will remain strong. Where else is capital going to go? If developing economies go bust, developed nations like the US will buy up their assets in a fire-sale.
We abdicated our global leadership to China the day Trump was elected. Our economic leadership will likely follow in the next decade.
Which makes sense. It's driving active managers nuts the techtonic shift to passive investing.
This was a good podcast on active vs passive investing: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/stupidest-money/
The miscalculation that I believe economists are making is the massive shift in leverage between the laborers and the owners. Historically, the two were balanced to the point that creating greater economic growth would tip the scales in the laborers' favor, thus increasing wages and inflation. What's happening now is that, due to many factors including outsourcing, illegal immigration, lobbying(bribery), capital conc…
That sounds like a suggestion that something very bad has to happen.
We are long overdue for a correction. Put your money into bonds and buy into the fire sales in inevitable upcoming crash.
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads%C2%AE_investment_...
Pay close attention to the "Diversify", and "Never try to time the market" sections.