[Marin]

How are we reassuring our nervous partners?
I don’t think my husband appreciated this mornings attempt to sooth him with “in 10 years this will be a minor blip on the s&p graph… or we’ll be in the middle of ww3”

[Matt]

Either the stock market is going to continue its many, many, many year over all upward trend, or our money is worthless and we are legitimately in war and stocks, jobs and money mean nothing

[George]

How did you convince yourself, if I may ask? What growth rate did you use, why? What’s your asset allocation and withdrawal strategy?

If someone is shoveling a number to me and I don’t know the reason behind it, I would be worried too.

[Conner]

Ask him if he would still love you if you were a worm. The market will seem like the least of his problems

[Brit]

My reassurance…. WW3 about to happen in 3 months. Hopefully in 10 years it’ll be done.

[Patricia]

WW3 is coming and we are in bed with Russia. God help us all.

[Cole]

Don’t worry Trump will keep us out of WW3…..if you’re in USA at least. If you’re in Europe I’d leave they want the war

[Mikkel]

Don’t watch the s&p. The only time I see my balances are a couple times a year when I rebalance my portfolio.

Otherwise who cares

[Tristan]

Remind him, if he wants to get out, when is he going to get back in? he needs a criteria otherwise you are likely getting out at the exact wrong time and in and the exact wrong time.

I don’t subscribe to a passive investment strategy (but believe most should if self managing), but you have to have criteria that is not emotional if you are going to trigger selling out or buying in.

Because emotion driven decisions will never work out

[Christine]

Divert attention to the things he enjoys and dream aloud together about his things are going to be great when you both retire after things recover

[Jasmine]

Show him where it’s “crashed” before regardless of who was in office.

[Sherie]

OK, the stock market does this all the time. Stop fear mongering yourselves to the point you’re scared.

[Sara]

I just gave myself a huge loan out of my brokerage account in order to buy myself a piece of medical equipment that is going to catapult me to a different stratosphere of income.

If I didn’t buy that, I wouldn’t have taken it out… I am of the belief that if we go into that bad of a recession where it’s basically a depression, money will be the last thing on our minds and we will need basic survival skills, food, water, etc.

and will be living in houses packed with family just to survive.

If the market doesn’t come back up, we are all screwed.

[Kayleigh]

Our mantra has been “we are controlling what we can control”. All we know is what happens historically—if we are in WW3 then having money in a HYSA instead of the stock market won’t do anything for us anyway

[Laura]

My pension has taken a nasty hit – I’m concerned. Trump is unpredictable and dangerous to global stability.

[Leslie]

Hang on to your stocks and don’t sell. Don’t look at your portfolio if it bothers you.

[Alex]

After tonight’s Trump speech I’m pretty sure there’s going to be a big stock crash tomorrow.

[Tom]

When the markets up count dollars, when it’s down, count shares.

[Kicy]

Stockpile canned goods, bullets, and medicine…that way you’re good either way.

He either crashes the economy and everyone is screwed, or we bounce back in 4 years.

For now, I would keep a consistent pace of buying.

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