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if you are an investor cash today is like holding stock options for stocks at lower prices at some point .
I never thought about it that way. Interesting.
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Originally Posted by mathjak107
but most who hold cash are not nervy enough to invest when markets appear to be plunging with no bottom so they rarely get to exercise that option .
This is why it is imperative for individual investors to have written Investment Policy Statements in advance. Those written statements can help prod the individual investor to take actions consistent with their pre-thought out policies.
Failing to have a well thought-out IPS is akin to just winging it.
Once again: how does the Fed have "control"? Fat white-haired men in pinstriped suits in a smoky room?
Somehow I think Janet might take exception.
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