2025 Got Your Attention Yet?
2025 arrives with, well, not too much drama. Of course, it's only the first week of the New Year. So what did you expect? Seems the market gods have not shown their hand yet. Sometimes they do, sometimes not. One yarn (and it's not all that far from the truth) is that as January goes, so goes the year. Speaking of years, stocks had another 20+% year. First 2023, then 2024. If you had invested all your dough in stocks, you'd be a happy man or woman. Of course, things could have gone the other way one or both years. Then you might not be so happy. That's why we don't throw all our eggs into one basket, right? Then again, if you're 20 years old, know you'll live another 50 years, have no intention of touching your money for any reason whatsoever (and who really can know that?), you might throw it all into a brokerage account and let it sit. Good luck. "Good luck" because, despite the occasional anecdotal story of some old biddy whose family found st...