Fortunately, it also addresses the dilemma I highlighted earlier — what on earth can you do to relieve the
stress of a market meltdown?
Before a possible global trade war became investors» biggest concerns, overheating inflation was seen as the most likely
cause of a market meltdown.
We are tackling the deficit today, making horrible decisions to avoid the catastrophic
alternative of market meltdown and mass unemployment or, as Ed Balls calls it «plan B».
These alternatives generate reliable cash flow through other means — even in the
face of a market meltdown — so you won't be forced into selling stocks at the wrong time to cover spending needs.
The investment circus crowd is always jabbering away about something — the Alibaba IPO one day, the
possibility of a market meltdown the next, etc. — but it's more sound and fury than insight, or at least insight you should act on.
Aggressive equity investing was very risky because the
consequences of another market meltdown while she's retired — especially fairly early in her retirement years — would be catastrophic for Lucy.
That's not chopped liver in this era of deposit rates below 1 %, but it also doesn't pay for the
risk of another market meltdown, bank bailout, and accompanied shareholder dilution.
During
times of market meltdowns, the Schloss screen apparently was able to pick up companies whose prices had fallen due to circumstances possibly outside of their control.
If the January slump and the Brexit scare wasn't enough to send you scurrying from the stock market, the
threat of a market meltdown in reaction to Mr. Trump going to Washington might have done the trick.
That's because in the
event of a market meltdown, retirees can be vulnerable to the risk of having to sell investments at beaten down prices in order to provide funds to live on, which is known as «sequence of returns risk.»