Food for thought!
Yale economist Robert Shiller has joked about how there's nothing special about a year. Twelve months "is the time it takes the Earth to go around the sun," he says. "I don't see any other significance."
If a stock, bond, or fund is down for the 12 months from one particular January to December, how much should you care? What if it's back to positive returns by the next February, or April, or December?
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