Both of these guests brought to the audience one of the most common messages an investor is likely to hear: stocks for the long run.
"Mitigating risk really isn't about where we think the world is going to be," Spitznagel said. "Mitigating risk is about what that path is going to look like, and the opportunities that you have along that path, right? The dry powder that you create.""If your definition of optimism is that everything's going to be great, that's a problem, that's complacency," Housel said.
"History shows that 20 years of continuous investment is the bare minimum to be assured of a positive real return for the S&P 500," Colas wrote. "One can do very well over a shorter period if all the stars are aligned, of course. But … two decades is the 'right' long term timeframe to use in a mental model of how long it can take for US equities to generate value for investors.
"One other way to frame it is save like a pessimist, and invest like an optimist," Housel said. "Save with the idea that all of economic history is just a constant chain of surprises and setbacks. But if you can endure that, then it's great. So that requires optimism and pessimism to coexist in the same mind, which is very difficult for most people to do. For most people you're either a full-blown optimist or a full-blown pessimist. And both of those two get into trouble.
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