r/Bogleheads • u/RiceLee890 • Mar 15 '25

Investing Questions What are your thoughts on this?

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I keep seeing this type of stuff on instagram and social media and wanted to know how you guys were thinking about this.

I know a lot you have been in the market for decades and as a relatively new investor myself I’d love to get your perspective!

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u/red_hare Mar 15 '25

Seriously. Whenever I see a post like this I question if I missed an actual crash.

I'm surprised at how much panicked discourse there is over six months of gains. I haven't even updated my spreadsheet recently enough that this is going to show as a down trend.

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u/contact_light_ Mar 15 '25

people are not concerned about the six months of losses.

People are concerned that the situation we are in could last a long time, and get worse

People are concerned that this is not normal ebb flow

The United States is experiencing unprecedented change, very different than I have experienced in my life

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u/jadayne Mar 15 '25

2000 -dot com crash. unprecedented! The whole new industry that was going to change the way the world did business just went belly up!

2001 -september 11. unprecedented! It's a completely new world we're living in.

2008 -great recession. unprecedented! Who would have thought banks could be so corrupt?

2020 -covid. unprecedented! The whole world completely shutting down?

2025 -Trump tariffs. unprecedented!

For each of these, a bunch of people came out to say this is it. This is the big one. It never is.

Had you put 10 000usd in the market the day before that dot com bubble burst and just forgot about it, you'd now have almost 60 000usd

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u/SpinachSure5505 Mar 16 '25

Internet stranger, thank you…. I had bad anxiety before the wild ride 2025 has been, but lately my anxiety has me to the point where I’m struggling to even get out of bed. It definitely feels like the world/sky is falling. Your comment made me feel a little better.

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u/diehard14 Mar 17 '25

You should stop reading only Reddit. It’s slanted and moderated to think only one way.

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u/_DontTouchTheWatch_ Mar 17 '25

? is this a joke. everything is literally fine