and then sold our entire retirement account the end of March 2000 after reading and looking at historical charts, lost of Tons of sleep watching/waiting to reinvest! Anthrax scares, 9/11 all followed the top. Back in the late 90's markets were going up double digits, now if I had started looking a few years earlier my sale would have been too early. I just Lucked out with the timing when I started looking at charts and bond funds were paying over 5%. I'm not suggesting that people time the market in the short term, but the timing of the Iraq war vote and the bottom has always stuck in my mind. It all depends on one's age to retirement. There were other insignificant votes that made me take a look.
People at the bottom pay taxes, those at the top have people to find loopholes and pay less, Buffet said as much.
Sad that many in our country do not have the opportunity to expand their visions as they are living day to day.
War is good, should go back and look at charts re WW2.
Did not mean to stray from what is happening in Gaza, or our country or Ukraine, but the correlation needs more attention. Be well 
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