The Dow Has Dropped Almost 2000 Points.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped almost 2000 points since Thursday. The S&P500 is down 12.1% on the year.
 
Are There More Losses to Come?
Based on the last three recessions and the current economic trends, yes, there could be more pain to come. The S&P500 dropped about 38% in one month in 2020. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 55% in the Great Recession. The NASDAQ Composite Index plunged up to 78% in the Dot Com Recession.
 

Source: MSN.com. (c) Microsoft. 

Are We in a Recession?
Not yet. However, experts, including Goldman Sachs, have put the possibility of a recession in the next two years at 35-40%.
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Should We Just Buy and Hold?
That worked pretty well in the pandemic. However, that was an anomaly. The U.S. had a debt ceiling suspension which allowed the Treasury Department to print up $5 trillion and give away free money to a lot of people, and pad corporate coffers with cash. On September 30, 2019, U.S. public debt was $22.7 trillion. By September 30, 2021, the public debt had soared to $28.4 trillion. As of April 25, 2022, public debt was at $30.4 trillion, with a cap of $31.4 trillion. That limits the ability of the Treasury to send out “Stimmy” checks to keep stocks and bonds artificially buoyant.
 
Borrowing rates were historically low during the pandemic. With interest rates rising, high debt levels, elevated asset prices, inflation, war, expensive gasoline and an inverted yield curve, there are many signals that a recession is on its way. Recessions are usually preceded by stock market downturns. You can check out my blog “Risks of a Recession in 6 Charts” for additional data and information.  
 
Buy and Hold investors had to wait 15 years for the NASDAQ to crawl back to even. During the Great Recession the wait time while your wealth was underwater was almost 6 years. Riding that kind of Wall Street roller coaster, and using the bull market to crawl back to even, can be disastrous. It tanks your credit score, drains your liquidity and could cost you your home.
 
How Can You Protect Yourself?
Below are just a few important things to take action on now, with regard to your nest egg (your liquid assets).
 

1. Keep a percentage equal to your age safe.
2. Overweight 10 to 20% safe due to the risk of a recession.
3. Know what’s safe in a debt world where bonds are losing money, illiquid and negative yielding.
4. Be the boss of your money. Do not have blind faith that somebody else (your financial planner) is doing this for you.

 
If you aren’t sure how to ensure that a Wealth Protection Plan is in place, then consider some of the tools below to help.
 
How Can You Be the Boss of Your Money?
 

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• Another quick way to check-up on what is at risk for your current plan is to request a chart of the performance of your portfolio over the last 15 years compared to the S&P500. Most portfolios shadow the returns of the S&P 500, but are 2% under due to fees. If this is what your portfolio is doing, then you are at risk of losing half or more of your nest egg if there is a recession in the next two years.

 
If You Wait for the Headlines, It Will Be Too Late
It’s tempting to wait and see. However, if you wait for the headlines that the economy is in a recession, or to learn that the stock market has plunged by 50% or more, it’s too late to protect your wealth. You’ll then be in a position of having to hope and pray that you make up losses. So, now is the time to get educated, get protected, be the boss of your money and adopt time-proven, 21st Century strategies. (Again, Buy & Hope worked well in the last century, but has been a disaster in 21st Century recessions.)
 
 
Now is the time to know what you own and why.

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