3 Things You Shouldn't Do if the Stock Market Crashes
What happened after 1929 was that so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation. It was really only in the 1950s and '60s that enough years had passed that a new generation came along that had not been scarred by 1929 that rediscovered the stock market. -- Ron Chernow, author of The House of Morgan and The Warburgs
That's such a sad passage, and it simply reflects human nature. When we go through traumatic events, it can end up changing us -- for the better and/or worse. The 1929 stock market crash was an extreme event, followed as it was by the Great Depression. But we investors today will face stock market crashes of our own now and then -- and there are some things we shouldn't do at those times. Here are three such things.
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