 a myriad of reasons not to be buying stocks but obviously look at the chart it goes from the bottom left up to the top right and stocks have been this unbelievably compounding asset class that if you've owned you've done extraordinary well but you had to stay in the market it's time in the market not timing the market uh which is how successful people do it over time a lot of people just forget that reality just because it you know if you're 60 and you're retiring now and you're a couple and you have a life expectancy of an additional 30 years and you rewind from right now 2024