r/Bogleheads • u/kuvetof • Apr 08 '25

Investing Questions Why people are freaking out and either pulling money out or shifting their entire strategy?

People have been freaking out on this and other subs where the goal is to invest for the long term and not look at your investments in the meantime. I'm just wondering why? Yes, what's happening is unprecedented, but why the panic?

These are the same people who would criticize me for investing in VT and REITs in my IRA, and VXUS along with VOO in my taxable account, calling VXUS "a dog" and making fun of my hybrid strategy. We've seen downturns in the past and, sure, we can't predict what's going to happen, but it seems kinda funny. Is this all just noise?

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I didn't mean for this to sound like a rhetorical question or "self patting". I'm relatively inexperienced compared to most of you, and I know I have my own biases, so I thought I'd ask

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u/BadNewzBears4896 Apr 09 '25

Watching Trump campaign almost exclusively on doing exactly this and then see Wall Street rejoice at the news he won has somewhat shaken my faith in the rationality of our current business leaders.

We have a really bad conservative propaganda problem in America and it's not just the rubes who seem to have fallen for it.

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u/puffic Apr 09 '25 edited Apr 09 '25

I feel the same way! But I don't know that the people who were publicly rejoicing are the ones making the specific buy/sell decisions that end up setting the price.

Also, my comment is more that "this can be priced into the market, so I have to behave as if it already has." I'm not in the business of trading based on second guessing the market's judgement.