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PoindexterOglethorpe

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18. I have a wonderful financial guy.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 10:27 AM
Jun 2025

I am not myself knowledgeable enough, nor am I willing to do the research necessary to do my own investing.

My financial guy, himself a Republican, started moving much of my investments from stocks to bonds (we're talking funds here, not individual stocks or bonds) immediately after the election. I find that interesting.

He's done well for me. I have more money than ever before, and at my age (I'm trombones years old) I'm honestly not that concerned about a market down turn. Besides, I'm very aware that over time, and not necessarily a long time, the market goes up. It always goes up. Trying to time the market is a fools game, but if you invest and stay invested you won't lose. Not in the long run.

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Dismantling the government is bad for business. Frasier Balzov Jun 2025 #1
I have two mutual funds LogDog75 Jun 2025 #2
Not much different Pototan Jun 2025 #4
a down economy is bad for the country but good for the party out of power cadoman Jun 2025 #3
I've don'e OK no matter what the market has done Warpy Jun 2025 #5
Small Cap stocks are not considered conservative investments. A HERETIC I AM Jun 2025 #6
Small caps are not conservative edhopper Jun 2025 #7
10-year trend Pototan Jun 2025 #8
In 1929 edhopper Jun 2025 #9
If the next collapse is as you say Pototan Jun 2025 #10
Doesn't work that way edhopper Jun 2025 #11
Let me explain my OP Pototan Jun 2025 #12
Do a search for Bart Starr's report bif Jun 2025 #14
There is no doubt about that edhopper Jun 2025 #19
I'm mostly in bonds spinbaby Jun 2025 #13
Of my 4 accounts, 2 are up under Trump Johonny Jun 2025 #15
Both me 401K and brokerage account are still down. Happy Hoosier Jun 2025 #16
The Biden years will be the last years the working class even had a chance to get ahead in America Johnny2X2X Jun 2025 #17
I have a wonderful financial guy. PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2025 #18
The long run edhopper Jun 2025 #20
The long run is not going to be decades. PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2025 #21
1974 edhopper Jun 2025 #22
1974 is when I started investing. PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2025 #23
The Dow fell between 1973 and 1974 edhopper Jun 2025 #24
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