I got asked about the coming recession at the soccer field this weekend. For people in the real world like my clients and the parents of my son’s soccer team, the economy is not an important topic unless they lose their job or if nobody calls for take-out from the restaurant they own. But recently there’s been …
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Smart investing during a recession
It was 40 years ago last week that BusinessWeek magazine proclaimed the end of stock investments. Stock markets have gone up and gone down since then. But mostly up. S&P 500 closed at 42 on Aug. 13, 1979 2,926.32 on Aug. 13, 2019 Stock dividends are up: $6 in 1979 $56 in 2019 Inflation has raised prices …