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PROSPERITY: Long Term Investment Success Is a Way of Life

May 3, 2022 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

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How’s everyone feeling about this market? Well, if you’ve been following my dividend-centric, individual bond ladder approach, it hasn’t been all that bad. In fact, it’s been good to finally see markets get down to reality. You can’t have tech valuations based on thin air multiples forever. Or can you? We’ll see. But this isn’t a forecasting piece. The weather is what it is. I like dealing within areas I can control. My favorite being how much I save and how much I work. Isn’t that the key to everyone’s success?

There was a time when America was an idea that championed the self-reliant—the individual under God. Our founders believed in it. And, in rereading Roger Babson’s (founder of Babson College) Prosperity, he explains how our founders were looking to God, not gold. They didn’t come to America in search of treasure to pillage. They came to create one—a way of life. And yet, here we are today where so many look at you like you’re an ATM—and they want to cash in on your lifetime of work and sacrifice.

It’s because of your work and your savings that we’re even talking this morning. You’ve done the hard work. I’m trying to help you avoid the big mistakes of losing it all—mistakes that are all too common in this business. As illustrated to you yesterday, it’s not surprising to me that so many investors have nothing to show for their lifetime of savings in the stock market. They are just too careless with their money.

As Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore write in The Wall Street Journal:

What about the stock market and Americans’ wealth? Mr. Laffer’s warning of a bear market turned out to be spot on. As the nearby chart shows, the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly climbed above 1000 in the mid-’60s and then bottomed out at 777 in the summer of 1982—a 22% reduction in stock values in nominal terms.

But investors, like workers, care about their real return. Adjusted for inflation, the industrial average (and the S&P 500) fell during that period by more than 70%—the worst 15-year stock performance since the crash of 1929. President Ronald Reagan and Fed Chairman Paul Volcker had to sweat the 11% inflation out of the system through a return to a stable-dollar regime along with supply-side tax cuts that encouraged the production of more goods and services. A bull market ensued, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising to more than 30000 between 1982 and 2022. Over that 40-year period inflation averaged a benign 3%—until the arrival of President Biden and the Modern Monetary Theory crowd.

Being careless is a killer. The second you lose a dollar that dollar is dead, never to return ever again. All the time and effort you spent earning that dollar are wiped out in a loss. It’s the saddest thing. Really it is. But it happens every single day because in a zero-sum game like the stock market every trade has a winner and a loser. It’s just a matter of time to realize the magnitude of each.

Action Line:. Long term investment success is a way of life. It’s a religion. If you understand this, then you’re with me. You’re searching for something bigger than gold. You’re searching with self-reliance for something you can build a life upon and be proud of. Stay with me.

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E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. His focus at all times is on preparing clients and readers for “Times Like These.” E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998. E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zilldjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart (RIP) of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris. Please get in touch with E.J. at ejsmith@yoursurvivalguy.com
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