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Set your own course: you--not some talking head on television--are the expert on how to spread your money among stocks, bonds and cash. (Strategy).
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Kiplinger's Stocks
- Article date:
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January 1, 2003
- Author:
- Knestout, Brian P.
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WITH ALL DUE respect to Godzilla, the stock market the last three years resembles a scene from a Saturday morning, B-grade creature feature. Instead of a monster, we've had the ugly specter of terrorist attacks and threats, tech collapses, accounting woes, plunging profits and a falling dollar. That's more frightening nightmare than any rubber-suited stuntman could ever inspire. What's more the damage to investors' net worth has been all too real.
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