G is for Great Financial Crises

We are told that The Lord works in mysterious ways. The Lord of the Stock Market, however, is a rather more predictable deity, over the long term at least.

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The rules are simple: markets have historically gone up more often than they have gone down. Those with money to invest and time to wait usually make more money in return.

But just to keep things interesting, every few years the almighty God of Markets sends down a plague of locusts to ravage the financial landscape: these plagues we call bear markets.

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