There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.
I had a few stocks, but stocks took a dive. I never sell my stocks.
As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.
The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years.
We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.
During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses.
Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.