Oct 072008
Not even a seemingly endless stock market decline, nor the Angel’s loss in Boston last night, can take my mind off the fact Edie is going in to the hospital for her scheduled stem cell transplant on Friday.
Fortunately my livelihood doesn’t depend on the fate of the Angels, and I’ve been able to keep losses in our financial portfolio to a minimum (only down 1.5% for the year), so those two events don’t concern me much.
I only wish I could say the same for Edie, and have as much control over the events to follow, as well as I have been able to control our current financial situation, and weather the economic storm I believe is soon to follow (especially should John McCain be elected the next president of the US).
Best wishes for Edie and for the elections too !
Can I hire you as my financial adviser? I can’t believe your portfolio has only lost 1.5%. That’s nothing.
Yeah well, that was 3 days ago. As of today, I’m down another 3% (down a total of 4.5%).
The main reason I am down so little is I was only about 15% invested in stocks (10% now).
I saw a recession coming for a long time. I just never saw the financial crisis. I expected we’d get to 10K in the Dow, with a slight over shoot to about 9500.
I never expected to see 8000 again, which is why I’ve taken such a hit.
I just hope the bleeding has stopped.