alt Hacker NewsTemporarily. The market goes up and down for all kinds of reasons. Long term though it’s never failed to go up and to the right.
Temporarily. The market goes up and down for all kinds of reasons. Long term though it’s never failed to go up and to the right.
For certain values of temporarily. On human time scales, we do see bear markets which last a decade or longer, and that can have a serious impact on someone's earning ability or retirement.
Markets do include significant risk and we would do well to remember that.