Bull markets, bear markets, and staying rational.
Both feel like they'll last forever while you're in them. Markets have always gone through cycles. The hard part is making good decisions in the middle of one.
Transcript
This is consumer investing 101. On one side, the sky is falling. Everybody is losing money, the world is over, everybody is losing their jobs, and it is never coming back. On the other side, this is the new paradigm. Everybody is smart, you could throw a dart at a wall and everything goes up, and it seems like it will do that forever.
That is a bull market. That is a bear market. They have been around for hundreds of years, not only in stocks but in everything you see. These are market cycles. They are healthy in any type of market. You just need to be rational when you make decisions.
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