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Personal Finance and Investing

LogDog75

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1. Good article

Reply to cliffside (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 01:04 AM

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I've had a regular mutual fund and an IRA mutual fund for over 30 years now and my strategy is to hold and ride out the downturns in the market. After 911, the market went down and the value of my mutual funds was cut in half. I continued to hold them and now they're up way further than I ever imagined. If we have a recession, I'll continue to sit and hold them taking only the required minimum distributions from my IRA mutual fund. I've outlasted past recessions and I should be able to outlast the coming recession in 2026.

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No predictions, just an interesting chart - What We've Learned From 150 Years of Stock Market Crashes [View all] cliffside Tuesday OP

Good article LogDog75 Tuesday #1

Thanks ... cliffside Tuesday #2

Markets recover because of growth in the economy and inflation bucolic_frolic Tuesday #3