I don't know about you, but I've done some pretty dumb things with my own money. In my younger days I gambled in Las Vegas casinos and lost money, and more recently I've made some pretty poor stock purchasing decisions by buying into clearly questionable companies and ignoring the tell-tale warning signs that were present.
But the great thing about each and every failure is that it's a learning lesson meant to keep us from making the same mistakes over and over again. Clearly, I'm going to make mistakes going forward, but the ultimate goal should be to profit from those mistakes so they become fewer and more far between.
The reason I even bring my own personal money mistakes up is that data released a few days ago by Thompson Reuters' Lipper research service shows that $43 billion was removed from U.S. mutual funds in the previous week. It's quite plausible that the majority of these withdrawals had to do with the possibility of a debt default, which was thankfully avoided, but it also represents the biggest investment outflow we've witnessed in more than two years. With the S&P 500 near an all-time record high, it's evident that investor uncertainty and skepticism could be boiling over. (more)
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