Just bought a new to me Club Car golf cart. No question, I wanted batteries. Plus they finally got smart and got rid of the traditional buzz box
battery chargers and are now using moderately smart ones. So two steering zerks and an automatic battery watering system.
And no noise.
The punch line here is not the cart, but fact that six months ago I was pretty sure the stock market would tank, and took money out at the very height of the market.
I used that money six months later to buy a cart for cash using money that was worth a lot more than if I hadn't planned for it.
sometimes it's not yes or no but timing
Bonds haven't been the other side of the equity/bond teeter totter for a number of years now. You just lose less with bonds.
Federally backed bonds such as TIPS have benefits.
I'm an old boater so bonds to me are the "anchor to windward". Something to hold on a little better when the wind is howling.
At least the local banks will now, hopefully, start offering CDs and other safe investments that make sense again. CD's have been like putting money in your mattress for a long time.
With 8 percent inflation, if you want to keep up, you have to be earning, earning, earning. Dividend stocks help.
And as someone who used to be in the business, I think it's partially rigged anyway. You get good news and the market drops.
Because it wasn't good enough news or because someone is manipulating in the background.