By Andy Gordon I’m glad I’m not my neighbor Kyle. He fled the stock market a few months into the Great Recession, sometime in early 2008, he tells me. And he never returned.
That was 12 years ago. During that period, I’ve had three jobs… married off two children… visited 13 countries… and made a nice pile of money (sorry, Kyle) in various public and private stock investments.
Kyle says he never invested in stocks again because the recently departed bull market was never “real” enough for him.
It was a big, glaring, OMG-sized missed opportunity.
But what’s obvious in hindsight isn’t so obvious in real time.
There’s …read more
