One of the hardest things to accept about the stock market is its volatility: prices rise and fall day to day, month to month, and year to year. One month an investor’s account has grown to a certain level, and the next month it has fallen back a few percent from that high, making the investor feel like he has […]
Month: December 2007
How much should an investor worry about another recession?
The drumbeat of negative economic predictions continues as more forecasters predict that a recession began late in 2007 or will arrive early in 2008. The latest convert is former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who recently put the odds of a recession at 50% or better. The U.S.economy has been expanding since the last recession ended in 2001 and signs […]