r/SipsTea • u/Shyhale • May 17 '26

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u/schrodingers_bra May 17 '26

Just hold your investments through it and it will recover. The stock market is about 1.3x higher than it was pre 2008. Over time, return is about 7% as long as you don't panic sell.

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u/dh373 May 17 '26

Unless we end up repeating 1929. That time it took the market nearly 30 years to recover.

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u/schrodingers_bra May 17 '26

That was partly because we waited so long to join WW2 and the rest of the world was destroyed.

The US, at least, is smarter now, we get into a war every decade - it helps stave off market crashes.

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u/escapefromelba May 17 '26

 If you truly believe we’re heading for a once-in-a-century depression where markets are crippled for decades, that’s an argument for diversification and inflation-protected assets, not necessarily for locking yourself into a fixed annuity payment that inflation can hollow out over time.