A History Of Market Crashes, Pt 1: The Great Depression
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🗓️ 3 October 2017
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
This October we’re kicking off a four-part series on market crashes with the help of Morgan Housel from the Collaborative Fund. First Stop: The Great Depression. What made it so great, anyway? We’ll also answer your question about a bucket-method for managing your portfolio.
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| 0:29.1 | This is Motleyful Answers. |
| 0:30.4 | I'm Alison Southwick and I'm joined as always by Robert Brokamp, personal finance expert |
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| 0:36.2 | Hello, Alison. |
| 0:37.2 | Are you ready to kick off |
| 0:37.7 | October? Because it's going to be big. Huge. Epic. In this week's episode, we are kicking |
| 0:43.5 | off the first of our four-part series examining a history of market crashes in the United States. Why? |
| 0:50.1 | Because it's October. An auspicious time. Also, a bunch of market crashes happened right |
| 0:54.6 | around this time. I think something like nine of the 15 worst market crashes for the Dow |
| 1:00.5 | happened in October. Something along those lines. So, this is all scary, sad. Sell while you |
| 1:05.5 | can. Just kidding. No, I don't believe that. The good news, though, is that Morgan |
| 1:09.6 | Hazel is back to hold your hand through this terrifying journey in time. We'll also answer your question about using a simple bucket system for allocating your mula. Will it work? Let's find out. All that and more on this week's episode of Molly Full Answers. |
| 1:25.2 | It's time for answers, answers, and today's question comes from Michael. |
| 1:28.3 | Michael writes, have you done an episode on the bucket system for allocating your retirement |
| 1:33.3 | funds? |
| 1:34.3 | It seems to me that having your retirement funds set up in buckets, for instance, having |
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