A lot of people who started with very little have made a ton of money by investing- why do you suppose they were able to do that?
It's because they learned about how the market works (yeah, there are plenty out there who try to screw people) and managed their own money, in spite of the risks.
Anyone who looks at the short term in the stock market isn't getting the whole picture. Buying a stock once and deciding that the market sucks because they lost money after selling it in a short time does not understand what they're doing.
Look I agree with you about investing in the market long term and hopefully I'll come out whole again, like I did after the
Great Recession of 2008. My anger though goes to that the problem could of been finessed without all the attendant fireworks and shocking the financial markets.
Things were going along swimmingly, a slow but steady recovery since 2009, and then Trump throws in a Molotov cocktail to the proceedings. An unnecessary tax cut which drove the markets into hyper-drive, which sooner or later was going to sow the seeds of another recession anyway, confusion when he pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which only helped China, and ...
Too many times presidents get too much credit or too much blame for the economy, like NFL quarterbacks, but his constant meddling & rants are not helpful in the least. He's a trust fund baby without a clue about economics. Look at his business record before the presidency. I'll grant you he's great at creating TV spectacles with the
Apprentice and selling steaks, etc.; a great snake oil salesman who's completely clueless in business.
How telling is it that he had to go to Deutsch Bank, troubled financially itself, for financing his ventures, since all the major US banks/institutions in the whole country and in his own hometown of New York City, like Citigroup, JP Morgan, Bank of America ..
to name a few ... told him to take a hike.
