October Is the Scariest Month for Investors, Along With All the Others
Actually, worry more about September.
Bloomberg, October 1, 2018
My list of seasonal irritants is increasing: from the National Association of Retailers annual Black Friday nonsense, to the regular scary October fright fest.
Its not that I am turning into a curmudgeon — Hey you kids, get off my lawn! — its that I find it so lazy and irresponsible to be peddling easily debunked nonsense.
October is the scariest month?
Nope.
I mean, not if you look at the data. Thats what I did, and I learned its just fine.
Full column here.
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I originally published this at Bloomberg, October 1, 2018. All of my Bloomberg columns can be found here and here.