Resisting the urge to flee from home

With the markets in turmoil, panic tells you to cut and run, but a knee-jerk reaction could hurt you in the long term

By Ron Lieber / The Bulletin
August 6, 2011

In market moments like these, it’s always tempting do something really big and bold with our investments.

Here’s a bad idea that’s likely to occur to the fight-or-flight animal within all of us: Scale way back on stocks in parts of the developed world with economic woes and put the proceeds....

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