Submitted by Alex Hamilton (not verified) on October 2, 2008 - 1:12pm.
A highly regarded personal-finance columnist recently attempted to answer the question, Should investors sell all their stocks and mutual funds and get out of the stock market?
In answering the question, he went back to the basics:
"Do you believe in capitalism?"
Do you believe that most of the companies that make up our economy have the desire to weather this storm, invest again in their businesses and succeed? Do you believe that the stock prices of companies with strong fundamentals will eventually recover?
New America Foundation, do you believe in capitalism?
Do you believe that the private sector should carry out the functions in a modern society that are within its core competency and where there is no market failure? Or do you believe the government should take over entire areas of commerce, just because under some obscure, narrow and highly subjective budget scorekeeping rules, the government theoretically can do it cheaper?
What It Comes Down To
A highly regarded personal-finance columnist recently attempted to answer the question, Should investors sell all their stocks and mutual funds and get out of the stock market?
In answering the question, he went back to the basics:
"Do you believe in capitalism?"
Do you believe that most of the companies that make up our economy have the desire to weather this storm, invest again in their businesses and succeed? Do you believe that the stock prices of companies with strong fundamentals will eventually recover?
New America Foundation, do you believe in capitalism?
Do you believe that the private sector should carry out the functions in a modern society that are within its core competency and where there is no market failure? Or do you believe the government should take over entire areas of commerce, just because under some obscure, narrow and highly subjective budget scorekeeping rules, the government theoretically can do it cheaper?
There is more to life than being cheap.