Have you heard the fable about boiling a frog? Back during the 19th century, a fable circulated the world on how to boil a frog alive. In the 1860s, German physiologist Friedrich Goltz decided to test the folklore on our warty friends. His experiments proved that putting a live frog in a pot of boiling water would indeed cause it to jump out immediately as told in the fable…which makes sense. The only way that Dr. Goltz could get the frog to sit still in the water was to s

Even the best market prognosticators do not for certain what will happen tomorrow. When markets are as volatile as they have been of late, the knee-jerk reaction for many is to get out of the markets and sit in cash. A Bank of America study of market peaks since 1937 showed that pulling out of the market too soon meant foregoing 20% of a market’s rally. Over time people who stay invested do better than those who tried to time the market. #marketovervalued #haddonlibby #cnbc