Mr. Tako Escapes

Investing your hard earned dollars into the stock market is probably the most common way to save for retirement these days, but investing takes plenty of faith (as discussed in a previous post).  Market crashes and giant bull markets happen.  Black Swan events.  Weird stuff happens all the time.  Things you wouldn’t expect, and events that defy logic.  There’s even times when investing theory and the real world just completely disagree…

Quick question:  How much of what you do as an investor is done on faith?  The belief that you’ll continue to earn good returns from your favorite asset class.  I ask, because even though we happen to be living in an Age of Prosperity, many investors are largely relying on blind faith when investing in the stock market…